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.
Could you elaborate on how to create this device “proxy” in SmartThings, and how you connected a HA device using an automation?
They are now under new ownership and may take a different direction. I have reached out to the new investors to see if they will open up to HA in the future. Will update once I hear back
Anyone have any updates on this? I used to use emulated hue successfully with my Brilliant controller, but pairing with the controller now requires a button press on the (virtual) Hue hub, which emulated hue does not support. The diyHue add-on looked promising as it has the ability to emulate the button press, and I was able to get it paired and working with the official Hue app, but the Brilliant controller does not see the emulated button press during pairing (like the Hue app does) for some reason.
My controller is in the guest bedroom, and my primary use case is to use the Brilliant touch screen to control the zigbee window shade in the room, but I’m no longer aware of any solution for that.
Not as far as I know. I think if someone were going to build this they'd have done it a long time ago.
I still use use my Brilliant switches, but I use the Homekit emulation. It works great on one switch, and a second one flakes out every few months and it drops the Homekit connection. I can fix it by opening the Brilliant app, which somehow resets the Homekit config.