Energizer Smart WiFi LED bulbs: do these work with Home Assistant?

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Last week there was an offer at the Dirk stores in the Netherlands for Energizer Smart WiFi LED RGB(W) bulbs, in both E14 and E27 format, for € 5 each.
These are advertised to be working with a native Energizer Smart app, but also with Hey Google, Alexa and Siri, and they are powered by Tuya.

I bought some of them.
It looks like it is not easy to open them, so I cannot be sure that these are ESP8266 based.

Does somebody have experience with adding these bulbs to Home Assistant, preferably without needing permanent cloud access?
If so, which integration should I use? Can it be done via ESPHome?

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Rather than using their own app, you can use tuya app to add your devices and rely on cloud based Tuya integration

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Thanks.
So this means that the control of them is always going through the cloud, and they will not work at all without cloud access?
I really would prefer non-cloud based usage, so there is no change of flashing them with ESPHome firmware after they are added to HA?

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You can try flashing them with Tuya Convert but unless they are older ESP based devices it won’t work. No harm in trying though.

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Thanks Tom.
Tuya is still completely new to me, so I will have a look at it. Hopefully it will work.

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Hi @thusassistint, were you successful integrating the Energizer bulbs in Home Assistant? I just bought two of them and might follow your path.

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You can also try localtuya, I have a couple of non-TuyaConvert compatible devices working this way.

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Thanks to this thread, and the fact that “Tuya” was automatically discovered by my Home Assistant installation, I moved the 12 devices I had from the Energizer Connect mobile app over to the Tuya Smart app, and now in Home Assistant I can see those 12 devices. Seems to work as expected using the devices this way instead of the Energizer instructions.