Ledvance WiFi bulbs

AnDrU · April 20, 2021, 11:51pm

https://www.ledvance.com/consumer/products/smart-home/smart-home-products-with-wifi-technology/smart-lamps-with-wifi-technology/index.jsp
Is it possible to integrate them in HA?
The android app is called LDV WIFI.
I read that they use tuya protocol but I can’t add them neither in tuya app nor in smart life app.
The bulb seem to react to the app searching for devices - it goes from fast blinking to steady on after about 10 second since device discovery but after the 2 minutes timeout it says that the device xxxxxxxx is not compatible with the app.
It seems the zigbee version are quite popular but the wifi ones not so much.
I’ve bought a set of 3 because I need high light output and they are rated 1521lm.
The zigbee ones only 806 lm.
I really want to use them inside HA

Bartem · April 21, 2021, 1:38am

I believe I read tuya changed the developer site but I believe there may be a new method at the bottom of this thread… this original method did work for me a couple months ago…

github.com

codetheweb/tuyapi/blob/55795913ffefba1fe01dbe1c73e863d28337417e/docs/SETUP.md

All methods below require you to install the CLI tool before proceeding.

Install it by running `npm i @tuyapi/cli -g`. If it returns an error, you may need to prefix the command with `sudo`. (Tip: using `sudo` to install global packages is not considered best practice. See [this NPM article](https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/fixing-npm-permissions) for some help.)

## Listing Tuya devices from the **Tuya Smart** or **Smart Life** apps (highly recommended)

This method is fast and easy. If you're having trouble manually linking your device with the below method, we recommend you try this. All devices that you want to use **must** be registered in either the Tuya Smart app or the Smart Life app.

1. Follow steps 1 through 4 from the "Linking a Tuya device with Smart Link" method below.
2. Go to Cloud -> Project and click the project you created earlier. Then click "Link Device". Click the "Linked Devices by App Account" tab.
3. Click "Link devices by App Account" and scan the QR code from your smart phone/tablet app by going to the 'Me' tab in the app, and tapping a QR code / Scan button in the upper right. Your account will now be linked.
4. On the command line, run `tuya-cli wizard`. It will prompt you for required information, and will then list out all your device names, IDs, and keys for use with TuyAPI. Copy and save this information to a safe place for later reference.

## Linking a Tuya device with Smart Link

This method requires you to create a developer account on [iot.tuya.com](https://iot.tuya.com). It doesn't matter if the device(s) are currently registered in the Tuya Smart app or Smart Life app or not.

1. Create a new account on [iot.tuya.com](https://iot.tuya.com) and make sure you are logged in. Go to Cloud -> Project in the left nav drawer and click "Create". After you've created a new project, click into it. The access ID and access key are equivalent to the API key and API secret values need in step 6.
2. Go to App -> App SDK -> Develpment in the nav drawer. Click "Create" and enter whatever you want for the package names and channel ID (for the Android package name, you must enter a string beginning with `com.`). Take note of the **Channel ID** you entered. This is equivalent to the `schema` value needed in step 6. Ignore any app key and app secret values you see in this section as they are not used.
3. Go to Cloud -> Project and click the project you created earlier. Then click "Link Device". Click the "Link devices by Apps" tab, and click "Add Apps". Check the app you just created and click "Ok".

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forg1vr · June 29, 2021, 2:34pm

Not sure if it helps, but I have one of the Ledvance wifi only bulbs (e14 sockets, RGB), and am unable to get them to connect to HA.

I was trying to follow the tuyapi instructions, but I wasn’t even able to install the prerequisite npm and node instances; would always return with an error; was never able to execute the “Npm” command.

fidomuh · July 22, 2021, 6:54am

I have tried all the steps mentioned here for my 6 Ledvance Smart+ Wifi bulbs as well - none work in Tuya at the moment.

It doesn’t seem like Osram is interested in continuing the support for Tuya or an API of their own

FrancYescO · August 3, 2021, 12:30am

Any news? did anyone tried tuya-conver if applicable?

EDIT:
No tuyapi: Device(s) failed to be registered · Issue #462 · codetheweb/tuyapi · GitHub
No tuya-conver: LEDVANCE SMART+ WiFi flashing fails (does not use an ESP82xx?) · Issue #974 · ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert · GitHub

i assume these bulbs are a customized trash, probably the only applicable way could be using alexa or google home as a bridge to have it controlled on HA…

fribse · August 12, 2021, 6:51am

Hmm, I got one of these ledvance lights as a gift, frustrating that it will not integrate.

FrancYescO · August 14, 2021, 1:31am

EDIT Jan 2023: i suggest you all to use: https://github.com/FlagX/ha-ledvance-tuya-resync-localkey

Finally i managed to get localKey for this trashdevices

pretty hacky procedure, but at least i got the key:
i used

the 1.0.0 (probably also work with the latest) version of LDV smart wifi: https://m.allfreeapk.com/ledvance-smart-wifi,17068539/download.html
a rooted android 10 device (an emulator and probably also others android versions are okay) with frida-server running: https://frida.re/docs/android/
macos with frida installed (frida is multiplatform, so any OS should be okay)

login to the app on the android device, than on a terminal of the PC launch this command with the app in foreground frida-trace -U --decorate -j '*!*encodeString*/isu' -F, refresh the list of device and you will get on the terminal a json-like blob, copy in a text editor and ctrl+f for localKey (oviusly if you have more than one device you will get multiple keys, also if you configured any group in the app)

Actually i hope i’ll find the right config for localtuya.
EDIT: all is fine with the one suggested for the sylvania bulb
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/sylvania-smart-wifi/223985/25

so, finally got this bulb in HA and working flawlessy!!

Flag · August 15, 2021, 9:16pm

Hi, thank you very much for your investigation. I also had luck with my ledvance GU10 RGBW bulbs. I used the emulator in Android Studio (on windows with Pixel 2 XL API 28, Android 9 x86). It has to be a specific image because otherwise the adb root command will not work (on images with Google Play).

FrancYescO · August 16, 2021, 12:07pm

i’m just having a little issue with the colors, but probably the issue is somewhere else, all the light blue (i.e Azure, sky blue) colors turns my bulb in more near to violet color… probably a misconfiguration of localtyuya?

Flag · August 17, 2021, 4:32pm

maybe you got something wrong in the configuration. colors look fine for me.

jacobtc · August 21, 2021, 8:26am

Hey, could you do a small writeup on this method? I was in the middle of sourcing a Pixel 2 for the
sole purpose of getting the localkey from a couple of bulbs, but this seems easier and more financially sane

I already got the Pixel 2 XL API 28 Android 9 image set up, but don’t know how to proceed from there.

EDIT: Seems I got it setup, and it works with the Chrome example, however when running the command from FrancYescO, it just says “Started tracing 0 functions.” and nothing happens when I refresh the list of devices by swiping down on the android emulator. I do this from remote, as I’m trying to help my brother, could that be the issue?

rgrabot · August 21, 2021, 9:25pm

Hello,

same issue on my side:

Flag · August 22, 2021, 2:10pm

Step 1 Download & Install the latest version of Android Studio from here: https://developer.android.com/studio

(in my case 2020.3.1)

Step 2 On the first startup of Android Studio you have to complete the setup wizard:

Keep everything on default settings

Step 3 Open an empty folder (e.g. on your desktop)

Step 4 Open the AVD Manager and create a virtual device

Step 5 Select a device without Play Store (important!!) E.g. Pixel 2 XL

Step 6 Click on Download for the Pie system image (API Level 28, Android 9.0)

Step 7 Select the downloaded image and click next

Step 8 Now you can start the emulator (play button)

Step 9 Download python 3.9.x

From here https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-396/

If you are using Windows 10 64bit I would recommend the installer:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.6/python-3.9.6-amd64.exe

Step 10 Run the installer and make sure you select “Add Python 3.9 to PATH”

Step 11. Open powershell and install frida tools via pip:

pip install frida-tools

Step 12. Download frida-server from https://github.com/frida/frida/releases

(I used frida-server-15.0.17-android-x86.xz)

Step 13. Extract to a directory via 7zip, WinRAR,… and rename the file to frida-server

Step 14 Setup adb (you can follow this guide https://medium.com/androiddevelopers/help-adb-is-not-found-93e9ed8a67ee)

On Windows I just added C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools to my PATH variable.

Step 15 Run the adb commands from the directory, where you have extraced frida-server to:

adb root
adb push frida-server /data/local/tmp/
adb shell "chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/frida-server"
adb shell "/data/local/tmp/frida-server &"

(press CTRL+C, this will not stop the server)

Step 16 ~~Download the ldvwifi apk that FrancYescO mentioned: https://m.allfreeapk.com/ledvance-smart-wifi,17068539/download.html.~~
EDIT: Link is broken now. You may want to look at hints here: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/howto-ledvance-smart-plug-wifi-in-home-assistant-solution/350280?u=flag

Step 17 Run from the same directory where you have downloaded com-ldvsmartwifi-smart-1.apk:

adb install com-ldvsmartwifi-smart-1.apk

Step 18 At this point you have an emulated rooted device with frida-server and the old LEDVANCE SMART+ WiFi Apk installed. Now you can do the last steps that are mentioned by FrancYescO (no macos is needed):

login to the app on the android device, than on macos launch this command with the app in foreground frida-trace -U --decorate -j '*!*encodeString*/isu' -F, refresh the list of device and you will get on the terminal a json-like blob, copy in a text editor and ctrl+f for localKey (oviusly if you have more than one device you will get multiple keys, also if you configured any group in the app)

Hint for windows users: If the last command outputs Started tracing 0 functions. Press Ctrl+C to stop., you should try it in powershell or in cmd.exe without quotes (frida-trace -U --decorate -j *!*encodeString*/isu -F). If it is sucessfull it should trace 2 functions.

basszt · August 22, 2021, 3:24pm

Hey
Thanks for your guide, but I ended up like rgrabot and jacobtc, frida-trace said it’s tracing 0 functions and no output… I’m trying to get this stupid localkey since Friday…

I tried android 9 and 7 (emulated in Android Studio) and 5 different versions of frida-server, always with the same result… Python Version is the same as yours, Windows 10 x64 as well.

MITM Attacks won’t work either, the communication with tuya-cloud looks AES-encrypted and I did not manage to get the AES key so far…

pretty frustrating

Flag · August 22, 2021, 3:56pm

Do you get any warnings or errors when you start the frida-server on the emulated device?

If you get something like this:

> adb shell "/data/local/tmp/frida-server &"
Unable to load SELinux policy from the kernel: Failed to open file ?/sys/fs/selinux/policy?: Permission denied

you are running the command in user mode instead of root and it will not work.

If the server runs sucessfully there should be no output.

jacobtc · August 22, 2021, 4:13pm

Nope, everything seems to check out, I just get “Started tracing 0 functions” and nothing happens when I refresh the app on the virtual device.
frida

Flag · August 22, 2021, 4:30pm

I just tried everything again and version of frida-server has to be very specific indeed. I even used the wrong one when writing my guide:
It has to be frida-server-15.0.17-android-x86.xz (not frida-server-15.0.17-android-~~arm~~.xz). They both start without any problems but only the x86 version (also not the 64bit version) works because it must match your ABI.
Also make sure if you are using e.g. frida-server version 15.0.17, it should also match your cli version:

❯ frida-trace --version
15.0.17

Btw. you can also check if you are in root mode the following way:
If enter a shell command without root it will give you a $ character at the end

❯ adb shell
generic_x86_arm:/ $

But if you are successfully in root mode you will get a #

❯ adb root
❯ adb shell
generic_x86_arm:/ #

jacobtc · August 22, 2021, 4:35pm

I did install the x86 version. Everything seems to check out.

Again, frida does seem to work, as the Chrome example given in the frida documentation seems to work fine.

Flag · August 22, 2021, 5:00pm

I think I found the issue: make sure you are not running this command in cmd.exe (the terminal in android studio is cmd.exe by default)
Try it in powershell in a directory where you write files.
With cmd.exe i got the same thing:

frida-trace -U --decorate -j ‘*!encodeString/isu’ -F
Started tracing 0 functions. Press Ctrl+C to stop.

vs in powershell

❯ frida-trace -U --decorate -j '*!*encodeString*/isu' -F
Instrumenting...
MMKV.encodeString: Auto-generated handler at "C:\\Users\\[...]\\__handlers__\\com.tuya.smart.mmkv.MMKV\\encodeString.js"
ByteString.encodeString: Auto-generated handler at "C:\\Users\\[...]\\__handlers__\\okio.ByteString\\encodeString.js"
Started tracing 2 functions. Press Ctrl+C to stop.

basszt · August 22, 2021, 5:05pm

I’m going crazy… I have absolutely no idea why, but using powershell seemed to solve the problem

Thank you!