Does tuya cloudcutter work on lightbulbs with BlueTooth

ESPHome
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Not sure if this is the place to ask since it’s not really an ESP home question.
I’m trying to install ESPHome on some tuya light bulbs I purchased a year ago.

And I’m planning to install esphome on it.
The issue is that the bulb has BT and initializes with BT instead of creating an AP where cloudcutter can connect to.
I updated the firmware but that didn’t change the behavior.

Now my question, Can tuya cloudcutter work with devices which initialize using BT? or should I purchase some other devices.
I thought I was sure a beken chip was inside because of my findings a year ago, but now I found that this was from a few other bulbs, and from the bulb I haven’t destroyed I couldn’t find the chiptype as it was covered with glue. So maybe the chip is not even supported, something I don’t hope is the case.

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Is it wifi bulb or bt only? Can you still control it remotely or do you need a bt hub for that?

3

If you put the light bulbs in pairing mode and it doesn’t create a wifi AP, cloudcutter won’t work.

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My bulb has wifi and BT. I can control it using the smarthome app right now, but that’s not what I want.

thanks, clear, I will check later if maybe I am able to create an AP

I see in the manual there is EZ-mode and AP-mode
https://support.tuya.com/en/help/_detail/K9hut3w10nby8
so I will try later if I can get the bulb in AP-mode.

5

got the device in ap-mode and got everything running,

there were a few other hickups, but now my device is running as expected :partying_face: