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Buying advice (Zigbee) (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by p5f20w18k to c/homeassistant

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I’m planning to put HA on a pi, with a usb antenna

I can’t decide which bulbs to use, Philips hue looks great but it’s pricey and I’m pretty sure it’s got too much “phone home” crap. I don’t want anything to leave my network. If I can use Hue bulbs without the hub, or block the hub from phoning home I would consider it?

I found some Sengled bulbs that look fine, but I don’t know if they are any good.

Can someone recommend some decent bulbs? Colour ones preferably, but white is OK too.

Any other advice? Got a home server, so can host just about anything to get this working together.

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[–] p5f20w18k 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Thanks for the advice, I'll look at the docs.

How's your RAM usage for HA? The pi I have is only 2gb, already runs pihole but I can buy another/run HA on my server, but if I don't need to, then I won't.

[–] Giulo 3 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I ran HA on a pi 3 and then upgraded to a NUC with a Celeron using 4gb of RAM mostly because I used Plex at that time and needed better transcoding.

You can try running HAOS supervised on your Pi. Running supervised will let you run addons within HA such as pihole, Zigbee2mqtt, Mosquitto, Node-RED and others. After that, you can verify if you actually need to upgrade your hardware. You'll probably be fine with that amount of RAM.

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Just wondering how you set up the Hue bulbs, did you need any workarounds or the bridge? Do they just link up to the dongle?

[–] fluxx 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any ZigBee device should just be able to pair with the dongle directly and no other settings or hardware is necessary. Check out the https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/ , find the particular device/bulb/switch and read the setup steps. If it has any quirks, it will be listed there. If not, you can be sure it will work without issues. I have a lot of Ikea tradfri bulbs, switches and also cheap Chinese devices such as tuya, they all work without issues.

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t see any B22/Bayonet Hue colour bulbs that are supported, but other kinds like E27 are there. Is there something about B22 bulbs that’s different? All but 1 of my bulb sockets are B22

[–] fluxx 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't know, I only have Ikea bulbs. Those all work. But I think hue is better, since Ikea ones don't dim very low, whereas I've heard Hue ones dim very low. Maybe give the b22 ones a Google search?

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve asked in the discord, if I can’t use hue b22 bulbs it’s not an issue, but I would prefer them due to their quality, even though they are more expensive.

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