No that is what Lidl has rebranded it to and is selling as, but that is not the OEM or white-label product.
The device itself has probably been manufacturers by Tuya or some other company as a OEM or white-label product that was meant to be rebranded by many companies. So I really mean the model of internal circuit board if you break open the control-box. Those are the type of pictures that you will see at for example the FCC.
As an example here it what the example of what is inside the Lidl gateway when sold by a other company in the USA so that it had to go throiugh FCC approval:
As you can see there they some times do not even use the same enclosure when rebranding OEM and white-label products but the internal circuit boards will usually be the same as the original product. Read:
Hi @Volker_Steiger, welcome to the HA community forums. The Original Poster (OP) asked in post 4 if we could keep this thread about the devices, not the gateway. Would you please create your own new thread, so you are more likely to get the answers you came looking for. Click on the Zigbee Tag then hit New Topic. Thanks!
Iāve also bought the LED strip light in the UK and it paired up very easily with Deconz / Phoscon.
It comes with a 2m strip and can be extended by 2m. Does anyone reckon Lidl will sell the extension, or will we have to find a similar version somewhere else?
Even has 3M double sided tape on the back, which is more than can be said of the equivalent Philips Hue LED strip!!
It was shortly discussed in this other thread and the answer is not unless a developer hacks the Lidl/Tuya gateway and also creates a third-party firmware for the Lidl/Tuya gateway that which in turn could, for example, run a serial TCP server, etc. to then be able to remotely share and access UART to Zigbee coordinator SoC:
It would be a lot of work bit it is not impossible for a developer to code such third-party firmware for it.
However instead of posting about that there I suggest that you create a new thread to solely discuss āhacking the Tuya Zigbee gateway / Lidl Zigbee gateway with third-party firmwareā as that is really a whole separate discussion.
OpenLumi is doing something similar with an OpenWRT fork the Xiaomi/Aquara Zigbee bridge:
Unfortunately looks like Twinkly integration is also only on/off and brightnessā¦ Iād like to be able to control the effect. For now, I will probably just plug the old fashioned lights into a smart switchā¦ I canāt imagine the next version of one of these christmas lights wouldnāt be able to control the effect too.
I got the power strip with usb and motion sensor today. Managed to get the power strip working, but not the motion sensor.
it is pairing, but zigbee2mqtt says it is not supported, anyone has an idea?
Iāve seen on internet reverse engineered API for Twinkly. All effects are loaded to device in form of āmovieā that is pre-created on mobile device (but can be created also outside of application). Such movie contains detailed info which LED should be triggered at what point of time and with which color. Might be pretty lengthy sequence of commands. Trick is, that they have some smart algorithms to map effect to position of the led on the three via photo mapping process. Without this all what can be created and uploaded to device has to be āposition independentā to look goodā¦ so sort of light snakes, sparkles etc. So even āsimpleā effect control, like choosing between predefined ones, is not selection of effect on device, but rather uploading this entire effect from app to device. I very much doubt it would be easy to recreate such functionality within HA.
Hi. Did you get it to work? Because I did exactly as you did and I got them added. Have you tried resetting them just to make they are in pairing mode?
I must say that after a few days of experience Iām not that impressed. The motion sensors have a trigger delay and also canāt detect motion when you are near them and below (sitting on the toilet). IKEA sensors have the same problem. The hue and aqara motion sensors are excellent at this (aqara has the upper hand).
The door sensors are rather snappy but have an irritating (at least I find that myself) red led that turns on briefly when in opened state and cannot be turned off. They are also very bulky compared to the aqara ones.
The white bulbs (ambience, all white tones) donāt give constant lighting but constantly flicker slightly. Very annoying. Also the white tones are off and at the lowest brightness they are still too bright.
The color bulbs donāt seem to experience the flicker but lowest brightness is still too bright.
Love to hear the experience with the bulbs from othersā¦