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Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK) (www.ikea.com)

submitted 10 months ago by cynar to c/homeassistant

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For those of you in the UK, IKEA currently has a steep discount on their GU10 bulbs. I've just picked up several dimmable, colour temperature controlled bulbs for £5 each.

They play nicely with HA via a sonoff dongle and ZigBee2MQTT, even down to firmware updates.

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[–] cynar 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Z2M, and it was definitely routing via the bulb. The ZigBee dimmer unit couldn't reach the coordinator directly (I might have mounted it in a metal wall box, with a metal front plate). It was connecting to the bulb and working fine however. When the bulb was off, the dimmer completely lost connectivity.

It might only be some of their bulbs, but they can definitely act as repeaters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting.

I remember having constant disconnects with my several aqara devices when i only had a path of bulbs to connect to. Those bulbs have constant power and are not turned off.

And when checking ZHA visualization i saw that they don't connect to the bulbs but rather tried to connect directly to my stick but only got minimal connection because of the distance. No matter what i tried, they would not connect to the bulbs