Good luck selling those now… given the recent announcement of the company’s financial troubles and their cloud dependence.
For anyone else who isn’t aware, the company behind Brilliant has laid off all their staff after running out of money. Apparently their assets are for sale.
Maybe someone can pick up the assets and improve the connectivity. The hardware was cool.
Step 1: Someone can pick up the assets…
After years of trying to integrate Brilliant into HA, I finally succeeded. I added Brilliant to my old smartthings account (which I stopped using when i migrated to HA) and added smartthing to my HA. I don’t think you even need a smartthings hub. I see my Brilliant switches as “Smartthings switches” in HA and can dim and control them. They also now pop up in my Alexa because HA is connected yo Alexa.
Also theres a binary device in Home Assistant I can control from my Brilliant screen. I made a virtual device “proxy” in smartthings that shows up on both Brilliant and HA. In HA i have a simple automation that gangs the virtual proxy smartthings device with the actual device so when either the proxy or real device turns on, the real or proxy turns on (and vice versa turning off). Again don’t think you need a physical smartthings hub to do this.
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Could you elaborate on how to create this device “proxy” in SmartThings, and how you connected a HA device using an automation?