I recently purchased two of the new tasmota based smart bulbs from local bytes. They are 9w bulbs, and seem pretty bright. I already have two of Athom’s 7w RGBWW bulbs, and in comparison these are definitely a bit brighter. I’m using them to replace some dumb 15w cool white bulbs. Although they are obviously less bright than the 15w bulbs, it’s not as big a drop as I expected. As to colour, I can’t quite get them white enough for my tastes, almost, but not quite.
Anyway, as I did previously with their smart plugs, I created an ESPHome firmware for the bulbs, as I prefer it to tasmota. I’ve included the ability to colour correct the RGB from within home assistant by just adjust some sliders, as I find RGB bulbs never give very good colour match out of the box.
One of my two bulbs has gone dead tonight. I’ve not been over-driving them, the interlock to prevent this is set in esphome. I think I just had a bad bulb.
I was just looking for GPIO pin mappings for these to write my own config and turns out you’ve done it all for me. Thank you! I’ll be testing this shortly. I hope local bytes start offering these pre flashed with esphome the same they do the smart plugs now.
Hmmm, the minimal flash worked fine but the full flash with this image seemed to brick the device. Even disconnecting the wifi didn’t trigger the backup AP I’d configured. If anybody has any idea what’s wrong I’d be grateful, otherwise I guess it’s back to tasmota for me. Thank you!
