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Smart light bulb suggestions (lemmy.trippy.pizza)
submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Alright, I'll get a zigbee dongle then.

Thanks for the replies.

[–] Geologist@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For zigbee dongles, take a look at the SLZB-06. I used a sonoff usb dongle at first (which was fine), but then switched to the slzb which works nicer and lets you run it independently from your home assistant machine over Ethernet (you can still use usb if you like though).

I have like 50 ikea zigbee lights running off mine (plus the same amount of other zigbee stuff) and it works super stable with zigbee2mqtt.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have the opposite experience, slzb-06 has been unreliable and I got zbt-2 recently and it's a day and night difference. I had to keep slzb-06 connected to one of these devices that power cycle every 24 hours. It also lost settings more than once. Zbt-2 just works.

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