I’m completely out of the smart lights loop and I’m looking for light bulbs that allow me to set brightness, color temperature and possibly the color in general using HA.
I see a lot of people recommending zigbee bulbs, which is fine, I just need to buy a dongle, but I already have an isolated wifi network with no internet access that I use to control smart stuff from my home server, so something with wifi would be ideal. I want something that I can just screw in and control from my server with no proprietary apps needed for the initial configuration.
Can you give me some recommendations?
Thanks
I have had for a bunch of years the IKEA brand of lightbulbs, which use ZigBee and maybe nowadays matter? I haven’t had to buy them recently and using ZigBee has been plenty fine for me so no need for me to change. The lightbulbs are not the best when it comes down to amount of colors, brightness and animations (HA only sees one animation which is a constant smooth change of color if the bulb has colors), but for the price they are sold, they were at least the best option back then. Maybe today there’s some other brand on a similar price category.
I have a couple of non-rgb IKEAs, No complaints given the price. Generally their smart home stuff is pretty much bang for the buck.