Home Assistant Compatible Lights

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LiquidDaze

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I am looking to buy home assistant compatible lights. The main requirements I have are a smart RGB tube light, RGB surface mount ceiling lights and RGB LED strips, but I'm unable to find good ones.
Wipro has smart tube lights which I'm looking at, which I believe are home assistant compatible, and I also found 'HomeMate' surface lights, but they seem very iffy from their reviews.

Another alternative I am looking at is hooking up some lights with an RPi, and then figuring out how to address them, but I don't have the time to set that up.
 
I would suggest going with Raspi route if you have the capacity to, I've experienced most aftermarket ones are pretty bad overall and in software experience.

You can use Raspi as the Master (Home Assistant) and ESP8266 as the clients (which will be different lights), much cheaper compared to using Raspi's for everything.

I built one myself with WLED which has Home Assistant integration, you can get the casing/parts 3D printed and other LED strips, controllers from WSPIXEL, it's not too hard.
 
yashgarg said:
I would suggest going with Raspi route if you have the capacity to, I've experienced most aftermarket ones are pretty bad overall and in software experience.

You can use Raspi as the Master (Home Assistant) and ESP8266 as the clients (which will be different lights), much cheaper compared to using Raspi's for everything.

I built one myself with WLED which has Home Assistant integration, you can get the casing/parts 3D printed and other LED strips, controllers from WSPIXEL, it's not too hard.
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Do you have any guide which I can follow? I was looking into this a while earlier, but all the soldering and getting all the parts seemed a bit expensive and time consuming.
 
LiquidDaze said:
Do you have any guide which I can follow? I was looking into this a while earlier, but all the soldering and getting all the parts seemed a bit expensive and time consuming.
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The WLED discord is pretty helpful if you feel stuck at any step and there are plenty of guides available, for instance you can checkout this video -
it shows a basic setup of WLED with an ESP8266.

But yeah, it is technically a bit expensive and time consuming!
 
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