KEY FEATURES
Transform your home with up to 16.5 million vivid colours & soft whites along with pre set scene selections
Highly efficient and controllable - check the status of your lights and remotely turn on/off as required
Use Schedules & times to automate & integrate into you Smarthome
Yes I bought them at $40 for a 4 pack, I also have lifx which were about $30 a bulb and only 800lumens and white.
The instructions are not clear as you need to turn it on for 3seconds off 3seconds and repeat around 5times until it starts flashing.
After getting them paired I connected to Google home and now tell google to turn bedroom on, entryway on etc and it works surprisingly well.
Very happy and I bought 4 more for a total of 8 in my home
Until someone else wants to turn the light off but doing it at the switch…..
Not sure why the downvote. I am just having a rant because I put one of the smart lightbulb in my entryway to turn on and off automatically whenever someone comes in through the door or walks past, but I frequently find it not working because someone else in the house has turned it off.
@fatgypo: Tried that. You can't hold back a determined teenager with tape. I was just having a rant, this only happens only maybe once or twice a year when someone forgets. I guess the bulbs will also work well if you live alone.
@Averell: I have the bulb, door sensor and a motion sensor setup in home assistant for my entry hallway.
Can mimic this. Have 2 of these running for a few years now without issues. (might be older model but Laser RGB), apart from a recent issue where it just stopped being recognised (was shown as offline in Google Home), resetting/re-pairing it sorted it. For the price, they're great!
No idea where wiz sit in the price range, but I've found every cheap tuya globe I've tried has nice bright white light, but colours are far less bright than more expensive globes (eg comparing to xioami smart globes), the colours are decent for dim/background lighting but don't expect to have them bright enough to really be able to see where you're going. Likely fine for what most people (myself included) want the coloured lighting for though.
A single app to control all of your smart home stuff is good though, so unless wiz are also tuya compatible (don't think they are), you're replacing all of your lights, or use something like Home Assistant to control your different branded smart home stuff I'd stick to Wiz.
Yep Wiz do whites well which is what I use them for mostly. They sound similar
Bizarre
DVDs and dimmable lights? Not sure why that's unusual.
That would be other sorts of DVDs
Anybody able to OTA flash these with Tuya-Convert to Tasmota in recent batches?
They have mostly moved to beken chips so Tuya-convert not long works.
However there is a whole new community around tuya-cloudcutter which supports the beken chips
https://github.com/tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) has also been developed.
https://openbekeniot.github.io/webapp/devicesList.html
Esphome supports the beken chips in recent releases
I've personally flashed a number these RGB and WW globes, along with the e14 and downlights with no issues.
Thanks.
Any chance there might be an OTA method?
Not that keen on pulling apart, then soldering/desoldering wires to flash.
Different way around it, but if you use Home Assistant you could add the LocalTuya addon, you will need to add the globes to a tuya app initially and retrieve the details for local control, but once done you can deny the globes any access to the internet (you must also block their ability to do a DNS request, even to your local DNS server) and they will continue to operate locally, or remotely if you have remote access to Home Assistant.
tuya-cloudcutter is OTA
The teardown are just folks pulled the config, same as was needed for ESP to work out pin layout.
Do these do cool white or only warm? Assuming soft white means yellow/warm or a bluish/dim white?
Yes, I'd like to know whether you can set different shades of white from cool to warm and whether they are dimmable too.
Colour temperature range (K)
2700 - 6500
Warm white is ~2800-3000K
Cool white is ~4000K
Daylight is ~5000K
This is RGB, which I think they means you can change to any colours (theoretically)
I have similar globes and they were fun for a while. Now the novelty has worn off and we've gone back to switching them on and off manually. Google needs a whisper mode so you can turn them on and off without waking the rest of the household, as well as having an option to turn off the confirmation reply.
You can change the sensitivity of hey google detection on a per device level so you could make your bedroom google devices more sensitive - I've tested on mine and one that's about the same distance as if it was on a nightstand on the opposite side of the bed responded to commands when it was set to sensitivity +1 and I was only a touch over whispering (not enough that someone sleeping next to you would hear). You can also say "hey google, set volume to 0" before giving a command, and while it still does respond to your command it's again so quiet it wouldn't wake anyone.
Other suggestions I've seen for muting responses is to name your items with a - at the end, which apparently stops the response, or setting up custom replies with a single space only so it thinks it's responding, but doing so with nothing.
Do they work with Tuya Smart app over wifi?
Edit: I think it does work based on comments on Play Store. Appears to be a rebadged version of Tuya Smart.
Yes, I have some connect smart globes connected via the tuya app - they are just rebranded tuya and the app is just rebadged as you say.
Can you set these sort of bulbs in an array like manner. I.e if you have several in one room but want them all to be the same colour and only say once turn on lights so that it turns them all on?
To some extent yes, the tuya smart app and likely all of the rebrands like connect smart have the ability to set scenes/automations, and one of the control features is if the status of another device changes - ie globe 1 turns on, also turn on globes 2,3,4 or globe 1 goes to colour mode, do the same for globes 2,3,4. There doesn't appear to be a way to sync the actual colour or brightness though, as the trigger works on a less than/equal to/greater than and the device(s) being triggered require an exact figure, so you can't say if brightness increases on globe 1 then increase the same on 2,3,4.
Unsure if you could maybe do this via grouping the lights in your chosen voice assistant so you could say eg "hey google, turn the loungeroom lights to blue" and have it operate on all 4 lights.
Unsure if you could maybe do this via grouping the lights in your chosen voice assistant so you could say eg "hey google, turn the loungeroom lights to blue" and have it operate on all 4 lights.
Yeah that works
Until midnight tonight you can get the Kogan equivalent of these for $24.99 for a 4 pack - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/808213
anyone have experience with these? I currently have Wiz lights in every room and am quite happy with the App.