Newbie here, so please excuse my limited knowledge. I have homebridge installed without HA. Would I be able to control this in homebridge? Thank you.
I have no experience in using Homebridge without HA. Basically, I used this write up from Samual Mertenats: https://github.com/mertenats/Open-Home-Automation/tree/master/openhome
But that is a setup Homebridge / HAā¦ However, I ditched it as I wasnāt happy with Appleās Homekit way of working. The Ai-Thinker Lights worked fine with Homekit, but for some reason, Homekit ignores the previous brightness levels and sets it to 100% (Is reported by other users as well).
The neat thing is you can control the AiLight with Siri though 
Yes, ws connection failed. Here is the console from Chrome:
[WEBSOCKET] Connected to ws://ailight-ac2ac1.local/ws
(index):1 WebSocket connection to 'ws://ailight-ac2ac1.local/ws' failed: Could not decode a text frame as UTF-8.
wsConnect @ (index):1
(anonymous) @ (index):1
(index):1 [WEBSOCKET] Error: [object Event]
(index):1 [WEBSOCKET] Connection closed
(index):1 CloseEvent {wasClean: false, code: 1006, reason: "", type: "close", target: WebSocketā¦}
(index):1
(index):1 [EVENTSOURCE] Connected to http://ailight-ac2ac1.local/events
How do I āentirely erase the deviceā? Iām assuming that the āResetā button on the UI will not work since I donāt have a ws connection? Iāve actually tried that previously to no avail. Do I need to upload some other firmware to erase the device? Something else?
I see from the ChangeLog that some fiddling around the WS stuff was done circa 0.4.1. So, I reverted to the v0.4.0 tag and SUCCESS! Works fine. Back to head on master and problem reappears. So some commit after v0.4.0 has caused this problem for me. Guess Iāll see if I can nail it down to a specific commit later today.
OK, looks like commit [15ec068] (Support for Home Assistantās MQTT Discovery) broke ws for me.
Thanks for the update! For the moment, if v0.4.0 works for you Iād recommend stay with that one.
Iāll do some testing what the issue with v0.4.1 is.
Cheers! Sacha
FYI, v0.4.1 is fine. Its the next commit that introduces the problem.
I see. I have a feeling it is related to the eeprom settings. When a new setting is added, this issue appears. Need to investigate furtherā¦
I believe I fixed it. Could you try flashing the latest master branch from Github? The issue was indeed when a new ācharā setting is introduced but not yet initialized properly. Basically, uninitialized it contains garbage bytes causing the WebSockets interface to trip over.
Yes! That appeared to have fixed the issue. āAboutā reports Version 0.4.1-dev.
Thanks!
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Cool! Thanks for testing.
Iāve got two bulbs from AliExpress for 15USD each. Anyone know any cheaper places to get these from?
I got mine from this store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/906899 at about $11 each.
But I think they ran out of stock currently
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Bought mine at taobao selling for 7.24 usd, itās the 7 watt bulb
If youāre using taobaoās official forwarder option itās 13 usd for first kg and 3 usd for the next 0.5kg for usa address.
Still way cheaper than other 3rd party taobao agents though.
Each bulb is around 250 grams btw
Youāre definitely getting it cheaper than 15 usd (including shipping) if you buy in bulk
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Thank you, will check out shipping to U.K.
Didnāt know there was a 7watt option, my two from AliExpress are 5W. Are there any other wattages?
Thanks
Yup! Mine are 9W
Good to know, have you had chance to compare brightness? Put one of my 5wās outside, was thinking it could do with being brighter.
On another note, are there any that are shorter in length for lamps with short shades?
Thanks!
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I only have 9W ones so canāt compare.
Shorter ones I havenāt seen yet.
I did find a 6 watt, but this oneās using ewelink app and not tuya.
Looks like another sonoff b1 clone
Got mine from ebay, also 6W according to the ad. Have been looking for a 9W version, but havenāt found it yet.
@stelgenhof your jig works perfectly btw. Thanks!
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