Newbie idiot to HA and ZHA, currently battling LEDVANCE Bulbs

kenisis · March 28, 2021, 4:41am

Sadly there are no logs that show up that the ZHA search for new devices did not find anything.

I am not sure how you would like me to describe this in more detail.

kenisis · March 28, 2021, 4:45am

Hi Bartem.

Thanks for the message. I reset one of the bulbs now. The bulbs cycles through colours, blue, red and green and then goes to steady white. Did several searches on ZHA and it didn’t detect the bulb.

I got some Zigbee motion sensors which ZHA does detect.

Could LEDVANCE have bulbs that are not Zigbee?

Thanks Al.

kenisis · March 28, 2021, 4:54am

Hi Grom. I tried removing them from Alexa. Sadly same result. I am starting to. Think I was duped on the LEDVANCE bulbs.

Bartem · March 28, 2021, 5:26am

Ledvance has zigbee, wifi, and Bluetooth bulbs… there is a sylvania app for each respective type of bulb. Do you not have the packaging?
I had some sylvania WiFi bulbs I bought on accident and was able to use localtuya to control them…

KrOnAsK · April 27, 2021, 12:16pm

Hi Bartem, I have some of the smart wifi plus bulbs too and was wondering how you got them to connect ?

Bartem · April 27, 2021, 5:11pm

KrOnAsK · April 27, 2021, 5:58pm

Thanks but how did you get the bulbs connected to the tuya app ? mine are connected to the silvania app /the ledvance smart wifi app.

Bartem · April 27, 2021, 6:13pm

There is instructions in the linked post… the first link takes you to the thread which talks about it… the second takes you to the GitHub repo that has instructions

KrOnAsK · April 27, 2021, 6:34pm

Yeah I saw that but it doesnt say how to link the wifi bulbs to the tuya app does it ?

KrOnAsK · April 27, 2021, 9:28pm

I tried that but the tuya cli just doesnt find the bulbs, got any idea why ?
that’s the error I get

× Device(s) failed to be registered!
Error: Timed out waiting for devices to connect.
    at TuyaLinkWizard.linkDevice (C:\Users\krona\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@tuyapi\cli\node_modules\@tuyapi\link\index.js:117:17)
    at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async link (C:\Users\krona\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@tuyapi\cli\lib\link.js:47:19)

Bartem · April 28, 2021, 4:20am

There is a list of possible causes for that error in the troubleshooting section of the repo

github.com

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

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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KrOnAsK · April 28, 2021, 12:01pm

Yeah I tried all those steps, but it sadly still doesnt work, do you have any ideas what I could do ?

Bartem · April 28, 2021, 5:17pm

Try reading this post and a few posts after it also…

a few people mention having to reset the bulbs a couple times in order to get them to “fast blink”… also when I did it I ended up doing it only one bulb at a time which seemed to work a little better.

KrOnAsK · April 28, 2021, 9:41pm

I tried resetting it about 10 times already and 1 at a time too, I guess its just not supposed to work

Bartem · April 28, 2021, 10:17pm

What command are you using the tuya-cli wizard or the tuya-cli link

KrOnAsK · April 29, 2021, 6:17am

tuya-cli link --ssid network name --password password --api-key apikey --api-secret api secret --schema shema --region eu

And I am getting the api key and api secret from the tuya iot plattform website
Unbenannt

Bartem · April 29, 2021, 7:36am

I’m not sure why it is not working for you. For me my bulbs were upstairs, and as mentioned in one of those other threads that initial pairing connection is happening directly to the bulb from the device you are running tuya-cli on before it sends your SSID and password to the bulb so what I ended up doing was taking a laptop into the room with the bulbs and
running tuya-cli directly under the bulbs… I could never get all 3 to go at once so that’s why I ended up doing one at a time.

Do you have any info on the bulbs? Like a specific model/revision number on them? It isn’t out of the realm of possibility that some are coming with different chips than the original run that most people had. Also had you completely removed them from the sylvania smart life app?

KrOnAsK · April 29, 2021, 8:11am

Yeah I completely removed them from the app and my Model Number is LDVWIFIA100E27RGBW. I hope that helps and if its not the model number I would appreciate it if you could tell me where to find the model number.

I am also sitting right under the Bulbs with my computer.

bal0m · March 14, 2022, 5:07pm

I am having similar issue, I am running HA with a sonoff usb zigbee dongle, just bought a ledvance smart+ lighting zigbee, reseted it (it is blinking), but HA can’t find it. Do you have a solution for this?
thanks

Hedda · March 23, 2022, 2:50pm

Update Zigbee Coordinator firmware and use a long USB extension cable + follow general advice. See:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zha#best-practices-to-avoid-pairingconnection-difficulties

and

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/pull/18864