I’m looking at these bulbs - Basically a MiLight 12w RGB+CCT with ibox 2 - The documentation doesn’t specify these lights
I want to use HA + motion sensors to turn the light on and off at different intensities based on the time (ie if it’s the middle of the night ans I walk into the bathroom the light turns on but at a low intensity, in the day it would turn on a full bright). One of the other goals it to use HA to set the temperature to the same white color temperature as outside.
It looks like the RGBWW model FUT015.
I think they have a Typo in the model number (They say FUT105 but all their other model numbers in their shop are consistent with 015)
Any reason you don’t want to buy from Amazon?
Pretty sure you can do exactly what you want with these. (I have iBox2 and FUT015 as well as the GU10 ones)
The Home assistant docs seem to imply that HA can support RGB+WW and don’t mention RGB+CCT, however, I’ve been able to control my Milight FUTT05 RGB+CCT floodlight using type rgbww. AFAICT, it seems to be able to control the lamp fine. You can certainly control the color the light comes on to, but it might need to go through intermediate colors to get there if it’s different from the settings it was using when it last turned off. I mention this because this might not be desirable in your use case to have a light come on bright noonday white when you were expecting moonlit calm. You might try working around this issue by dimming the lamp down to a neutral color low level before turning it off, then ramping up the brightness and setting the desired color when turning it on again.
Whether or not you’ll be able to match your lamp to the color of outdoor light sounds like a fascinating challenge.
Thanks so much for the replies! What a great community.
@DavidFW1960 - Yeah the model numbers are a bit confusing, when I search FUT015 it shows an 8w bulb but it seems FUT105 returns a 12W globe.
I’m in Australia, Amazon has only just launched here recently but we have been able to use the US site for a long time, maybe it’s a personal bias but i have found going more direct yields better postal times and availability.
Sounds like this is the right way to go, I’m going to order one and get the proof of concept working first.
I’m in Australia as well. I originally ordered from www.limitlessled.com (in the states) but they seem to have abandoned their store now. (only took a week to get here too)