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Smart light bulb suggestions (lemmy.trippy.pizza)
submitted 4 months ago by dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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I'm completely out of the smart lights loop and I'm looking for light bulbs that allow me to set brightness, color temperature and possibly the color in general using HA.

I see a lot of people recommending zigbee bulbs, which is fine, I just need to buy a dongle, but I already have an isolated wifi network with no internet access that I use to control smart stuff from my home server, so something with wifi would be ideal. I want something that I can just screw in and control from my server with no proprietary apps needed for the initial configuration.

Can you give me some recommendations?

Thanks

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

I found that Phillips Hue bulbs works great with the Zigbee2Mqtt addon (and poorly/not at all with ZHA integration) and the $25 Sonoff dongle. Home Assistant sells their own dongle which I would imagine works even better too.

Hue bulbs are more expensive than most, but people seem to say they have the best color consistency.

If you want to stick with Wifi you could probably just hook up Tasmota plugs to your existing lamps.

[–] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Philips has chaned their policy a while back and now they collect telemetry data from their bulbs: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This only applies if you use their bridge and the bridge is connected to the internet. If you do what I said in my comment (zigbee2mqtt addon with dongle) then there is no path for them to collect. The Zigbee2Mqtt addon allows for firmware updates.

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