“I’ve been waiting for you, Obi Wan.” – Darth Vader. One of the big differences between a ManualResetEvent and an AutoResetEvent (WaitHandles) in the .NET Framework is that a ManualResetEvent can wake up multiple waiting threads, whilst an AutoResetEvent can only wake up one of the waiting threads. When set/triggered, the ManualResetEvent stays in that state […]
“I can’t talk right now, I have several thousand updates to install.” – Sheldon Cooper (referring to Windows 98). I recently picked up another LIFX light bulb (see my original post here). As always, the first thing to do after taking it out the box is to run the firmware update program from LIFX. The […]
“We have an emergency alert in detention block AA-23.” – Random Death Star Administration Team Member. When I first moved into my house I found there was a Networx NX-4 alarm installed. Great! All I needed to do after that was add a network connection to it so that I could control it from my […]
“It’s against my programming to impersonate a deity.” – C-3PO. This post is part of a 3 part series, starting with part 1. Now that I had determined the protocol used to communicate with the air conditioner, the remaining activity was to create a new web service to impersonate the ninja blocks one being used by […]
“Security isn’t a dirty word, Blackadder!” – General Melchett. This post is part of a 3 part series, starting with part 1 and finishing with part 3. After finding that the new wireless air conditioner control module I bought couldn’t be directly controlled, I needed to reverse engineer how the system worked to determine if it was […]
“What a piece of junk!” – Luke Skywalker. A case could be made that I’ve chosen that specific quote because I just really like Star Wars. On an unrelated topic to that quote, I recently purchased a piece of equipment that supplements the air conditioner in my house allowing me to control the air conditioner […]
“I’ll handle it.” – Olivia Pope. I was doing a development project recently, where I needed to impersonate a web service used by a device on my home network – allowing me to intercept/redirect the traffic from the home device. The device was attempting to connect to a web service to send and receive data […]
Hopefully Helpful Hints // Mike J McGuire 