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How to Use Your Phone to Detect Hidden Surveillance Cameras at Home

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You Are Being Watched Someone is watching you. This is pretty much irrefutable in the post-Snowden era. But digital surveillance of emails and telephone records is a little less hair-raising than someone actually observing your movements via a hidden surveillance camera. It’s unlikely that you have never been filmed out in public, either on CCTV or in the distance on a TV news report, and as a society we’ve become more accepting of closed circuit cameras, security cameras, and so on (rightly or wrongly). But what about closer to home? What about in the office, development room, bathrooms and dressing rooms, or any number of places where you wouldn’t normally expect to find a camera watching your every move? Ads by Google Without being made aware of such surveillance in advance, you could find yourself being recorded, your movements and actions tracked, judged, no doubt misinterpreted. This intrusion might be performed using professionally manufactured security cameras, o...

Home Decor Tips With LED Strips and Smart Lights

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Colored Lighting Options Let’s first take a quick look at your options for smart lighting. Leading the smart home colored lighting systems is Philips Hue, with a range of bulb fittings, accent fixtures, and even a light strip option. However, these come at a premium cost – upwards of $60 for a single colored bulb. Philips 456210 Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 Bulb Starter Kit 2nd Generation, White New and enhanced Hue white and color ambience kit now upgraded from 600 to 800 lumens with increased internal storage for added functionality Price:  $179.99 Buy Now at Amazon.com If you have the money to buy officially branded bulbs or Friend of Hue range, Philips Hue is my personal system of choice, and thanks to an open API they’re able to connect with a huge range of other services or smart home hubs – mine is currently integrated with  OpenHAB running on a Raspberry Pi . The Philips Hue system requires a Wi-Fi bridge, which you’ll find in a starter kit ...