FEIT Electric BPA800/RGBW/AG/2 Smart WiFi Bulb (Tuya)

CCurvin · January 14, 2020, 12:57am

Hi!

How can I tell which template I need? I applied the OM60 and the bulbs seem to mostly work in HA except for cold/warm white temp slider. Should I try the other template, or is there a more concrete/scientific way to determine the correct template?

Thanks!

henry8866 · January 26, 2020, 9:16pm

anyone has ota tuya convert to flash tasmota guide? the above youtube is two hours long

CCurvin · February 8, 2020, 6:29pm

Wow, 2 hours is nuts. I don’t remember exactly what I did, but I definitely didn’t watch a 2 hour video. I maybe skipped around through it.

But the instructions are here:

github.com

ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert/blob/master/README.md


# TUYA-CONVERT

A Chinese company named Tuya offers a free-to-brand turnkey smart home solution to anyone. Using their offer is dead-simple, since everything can be done by clicking through the [Tuya web page](https://en.tuya.com/), from choosing your pre-designed products or pre-programmed wifi-modules (mostly ESP8266) to building your own app. In the end, this has resulted in as they claim over 11 000 devices 'made' by over 10 000 vendors using Tuyas firmware and cloud services.

Aside from that, they claim their cloud solution has 'military grade security'. Michael Steigerwald, founder of the German IT security startup VTRUST, was able to disprove this claim and presented his results in the "Smart home - Smart hack" talk at 35C3 in Leipzig: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9723-smart_home_-_smart_hack

In the following days, VTRUST and the German tech magazine c't decided to work together. Since reflashing devices using the ESP8266/85 is widespread among DIY smart home enthusiasts, we wanted to provide an easy way for everyone to free their devices from the cloud without the need for a soldering iron. 

Please make sure to visit VTRUST (https://www.vtrust.de/), since the hack is their work.

## 🚨WARNING🚨
Please be sure that you understand what you're doing before using this software. Flashing an alternative firmware can lead to unexpected behavior and/or render the device unusable, so that it might be permanently damaged (highly unlikely) or require soldering a serial connection to the processor in order to reflash it (likely). 

### ⚠️ Be aware that you use this software at your own risk so neither VTRUST nor c't/heise can be held accountable for any damage done or loss of functionality. ⚠️ 

TUYA-CONVERT only provides with the means to backup the original and flash an alternative firmware. Please do not ask for hardware support for your favorite alternative firmware in this repository, rather open an issue in the corresponding repository.

## DOCUMENTATION
Since Tuya devices are spread around the world with likely a vast amount of different brand names, please tell the community if you find one! There is a device list in the wiki that you can help extend. Please at least add the device model number, brand name, geographical area where you have bought the device and its flash mode (as seen in the device information). Add the GPIO assignments as well if you have found them to save the developers of alternative firmwares some time. Please note that we do not develop or maintain alternative firmwares and so post installation issues should be directed to the respective project.

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henry8866 · February 8, 2020, 7:39pm

yeah, actually following it and use template from database.

fyi, Costco has it on sale, $15 for 2 bulbs. I am getting 4 of them for my porch and garage.

mvana · May 18, 2020, 8:09pm

Good point: The “official” profile is now in the database:

{“NAME”:" BPA800/RGBW/AG/2",“GPIO”:[0,0,0,0,140,37,0,0,38,142,141,0,0],“FLAG”:0,“BASE”:18}
NOTE: There are two variants of this bulb, BPA800/RGBW/AG/2§ and BPA800/RGBW/AG/2 (this template). The additional key info from the same source:
Need to run setoption37 54 in the console to correct the RED and BLUE mismatch
This bulb seems to have hardware Gamma correction, so you need to make sure you disable Software Gamma Correction: LedTable 0
Don’t forget to set the SetOption19 1 to enable Home Assistant automatic discovery and you should be ready to go.
I also just did series of the OTA upgrades from Tasmota 6.6.0:
Upgraded to 7.2.0; Upgraded to 8.1.0; Next upgrade failed (assuming binary size issue).
So upgraded to 8.3.0 Minimal. That BEGS for upgrade! Upgraded to 8.3.0.
Now up-to-date and the WEB UI is great - much improved color control. Though once under HASS we may never need it again

James_Huang · July 6, 2020, 5:43pm

I’ve got the plain unmodified version of these bulbs. When I open it in the Tuya Smart Life app, I’m able to control on/off, brightness, and color temperature. The RGB doesn’t show up at all. I’ve got the HASS integration and it’s the same story there. Is this normal?.. is there any way to get the RGB control up?

DaddyCool · July 7, 2020, 5:14pm

This worked for me, well warm cold still wrong way around

{"NAME":"Feit Bulb","GPIO":[255,255,255,255,141,140,255,255,38,142,37,255,255],"FLAG":0,"BASE":18}

brocktucker · August 23, 2020, 1:41pm

This worked for me, well warm cold still wrong way around

{"NAME":"Feit Bulb","GPIO":[255,255,255,255,141,140,255,255,38,142,37,255,255],"FLAG":0,"BASE":18}

Go to console and SetOption37 to 1

This works with your template on the bulbs I just got from Lowes that have the 2019 copyright on the bottom of the box.

stephan2006 · September 29, 2020, 12:54am

Have you had any luck getting this answered?

tsimons78 · December 24, 2020, 12:52pm

I just tried the latest tuya-convert and the new-api, neither worked on bulbs from costco in Dec 2020 with these markings:

BPA800/RGBW/AG/2(P)

Under the WiFi logo: 228-20-42

FCCID: SYW-A19RGBWAGT2

The bulb would go from fast flash to solid while the smartconfig was trying to work, but would ultimately fail.

I get a connection, but nothing else:
smarthack-wifi.log:wlan0: AP-STA-CONNECTED d4:a6:51:XX:XX:XX
smarthack-wifi.log:wlan0: AP-STA-DISCONNECTED d4:a6:51:XX:XX:XX

Probably going to return them…

rjchu · December 24, 2020, 2:01pm

How are you guys getting color control in the tasmota ui? I get brightness and warm-cool sliders only with the above templates.

Markus99 · December 24, 2020, 2:24pm

I just purchased these and was able to download the tuyasmart app and set them up within that. I then used the home assistant tuya integration in order to get them to show up in HA. I then had to customize the light entity to change supported features to 63.

I’m now able to control full color on this bulb from HA. It’s not local but it is working.

henry8866 · December 24, 2020, 11:21pm

Glad it still works on tuya. My local costco out of stock so I ordered online and will be arrive soon.

nickyivyca · January 3, 2021, 5:57am

Do yours still work for RGB? I got a bunch of these recently as well, they always worked with white with the cold/warm slider. At first the RGB did not work, but then for a few days it did, but then it went back to not working a few days later. I didn’t make any changes to the supported features though, this just happened on its own. I’ve tried changing the supported features to 63 with no luck on mine.

edit: I was not including my customizations.yaml into my main configuration.yaml. Works now!

Markus99 · January 4, 2021, 2:23pm

Yes, mine work for RGB using the standard tuya integration:

I use the light-entity-card (Light Entity Card) to change them:

Only thing I changed beyond default was customization.yaml:

light.bulb_xxxx_desk_light:
  supported_features: 63
light.bulb_xxxx_chandelier:
  supported_features: 63

tman75 · July 7, 2021, 4:28am

I just bought these from Costco for $10 a 2 pack. I was bummed that smart life said it wasn’t supported, so I downloaded the feit app, set it up, and kept looking for a feit integration. This post made me delete feit app and readd it to smart life. It stills says it isn’t supported, but it showed right up in HA. I checked the box “force color” and all is well with these bulbs. I definitely need to buy more. Now I just need a single R30 bulb!

mvana · January 18, 2022, 4:30am

Update: After having successfully re-flashed few Feit Electric BPA800/RGBW/AG2 (first over serial and later using Tuya Convert) I bought another pair in Costco (California). January 2022.
The bulbs are labeled BPA800/RGBW/AG/2. Sadly I can only confirm that the design is different and doesn’t work with the OTA update and probably not with Tasmota at all.
I prefer not using the Tuya integration - assuming that to control my own bulb on my home network HA would have to talk through an API over the Internet(?) Please correct me if the integration does spoof the Tuya cloud locally - that would be a sweet alternative.
Probably going back to Costco.

k8gg · January 18, 2022, 5:17pm

Correct.

Unfortunately it does not.

Ref: Tuya - Home Assistant (home-assistant.io)

I recall there were discussions on some 3rd party codes for “local tuya” maybe a couple of months ago.
So maybe someone else (who is using the “local tuya”) could help answer: Is that still working these days? Is that local API phasing out / is tuya closing the doors in the near future? Does that support everything that tuya’s cloud-based API would support? Do users still have to jump through the hoops?

WillS · February 20, 2022, 1:06pm

Troy, @tman75 were you using Tuya integration, or something else? I also was able to connect mine via Smart Life with full functionality, and it is discoverable with Tuya, though looking to add to HA preferably without having to use Tuya.

tman75 · March 8, 2022, 9:06pm

I am using the standard Tuya integration.