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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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[–] coherent_domain 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would highly recommend a zigbee switch over a zigbee bulb. in that way you can still use the switch instead of locking in in the on position.

[–] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, OP wants a bulb with temperature and brightness controls. A smart switch won't do it.

[–] coherent_domain 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh brightness adjustment is possible with smart dimmer, but you are right, most smart switch cannot change colors.