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Recommendations for Zigbee Bulbs (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I realized I have some old hue bulbs laying around, and they're working well enough with my Zigbee controller (no bridge), but if I decide to scale up I definitely don't want to pay the Hue premium.

Anyone have a Zigbee bulb brand they recommend? I hear Third Reality is nice?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just bought some Third Reality bulbs to replace TP-Link wifi bulbs a couple of weeks ago. (The TP-Link bulbs require continual communication with TP-Link's Chinese servers or they reset every few seconds.)

Zigbee2MQTT detects the Third Reality bulbs immediately and they have been working perfectly. The same goes for TR power monitoring smart plugs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh that's good to know. I have a handful of Kasa bulbs and I don't give them WAN access. They seem to be mostly fine without WAN, but I do get communication issues with them from time to time (which is why I'm exploring zigbee as an alternative). Thank you for the reply!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The bulb resets are known to TP-Link and they created a firmware version that fixed it. The company didn't release the update and now TP-Link support reps deny that the new firmware exists, so obviously the communication failures and resets are design intent.

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/666612 - post #7