About this app
We've developed a truely IoT smart lights product, and need a mobile application to enable users to conveniently control and play the digital lights and musics on the device, over Internet connection. Our revenue generating product is a smart hardware device which has WiFi to access Internet, special LED lights signal generator. Our lights can be turned for 24x7x365, without any risk of fire, because our product only use 5volts DC power supply and the power is between 0.5watts to 13 watts. 13 Watts will support 1800 light bulbs!
We have spent 2.5 years to develop this smart hardware device with a software soul. I personally spent all my past 2 years' salary on this product development. It passed FCC and all required tests targeting for consumers.
Our device is also integrated with Google Home, we have 20+ voice commands translated by Google Home speaker and Heruko. We use web socket inside the device to get JSON strings, originated from Google Home speaker.
Here are some features Features:
1. Unlimited custom light patterns through adjustable brightness, color, and speed for each light on LED strip (up to 200 feet with multiple strips USB jointed)
2. Ultra Safe 24x7, low voltage at 5V DC, Low power consumption between 1.1 - 13 watts
3. Unrestricted portability to beach, park,school
4. Water resistant strip with care
5. Six control methods with WiFi 2.4 GHz
Internet, and Standalone network:
- Classic manual operation via 2 keys
- Browser control on mobiles or PCs
- MobileApp with Internet
- MobileApp with standalone network
- Voice control via Google Home
- Voice control via Amazon Echo series
6. 8 built-in songs 8 volume levels.
Our Mobile App will help users to use our products in such use cases:
a. home decoration in rooms, porch
b. party fantasy lights
c. Christmas, Halloween etc. holiday lights
d. basement, closet light up with super good safety
e. Security monitor and reporting as it has multiple sensors
f. Pet monitor if they're out of sleeping spot during expected time
h. Road safety, sport safety lights for bicycling and road side works
g. Comfortably used on beds by kids for fun, young people for romance.
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For all of these, we build the outbound control in Mobile App, and inbound status report collection and notification. Any color the finger touches can just be sent to the smart light immediately over Internet.
Our product is a 3-piece solution, #1 is the device mentioned above. #2 is the cloud server as a command/report transceiver. #3 is this Mobile App. They form a complete service.
The WiFi setup via our mobile App is the only way as the device has no screen although it provides beautiful lights to our eyes. This is mainly for the convenience per user habit and product cost reduction.
Also this Mobile App can control multiple devices "at the same time" (human eyes can not feel the concurrency and latency).
Also in future if we can sell enough products, we'll have a handful of new products on the road, all of them are basically using the same software architecture.
Our phone app has two levels of UI, the first is simply helping users to use the phone to detect the device(s), set up Internet for them, match them individually with this App on this phone. The second is the major Genie Lights fantasy control, and we believe this app provides a reasonably simplified user interface for all kinds of lights, music play.
In short, this Application is developed as a part of a complete smart IoT product solution, we need to have this app in public even if there is only one customer:)).
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Allows mounting and unmounting file systems for removable storage.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
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