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For a while, I had my RGB lightbulbs set up to flash appropriate colors when I would strike a note in Beat Saber. The effect was very neat and rave-y. The lights in the room would automatically dim to black when a song would start, and then flash the color of a struck note and fade back to black (with a speed proportional to the beat of the song).

Eventually the mod I used to expose the game events over a websocket stopped working, and the creator stopped maintaining it. I maintained a private fork of it myself for a while, but eventually got tired of spending so much time keeping it working after each game update just for the sake of a party trick.

Also my smart robot vacuum is only allowed to start vacuuming when my phone is outside a geofence around my home, and must stop vacuuming if I re-enter the geofence. I never see it vacuuming, but my floors are always clean!

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