I am in a journey to find some GU10 light bulbs for my kitchen with these features:
Compatible with Home Assistant (of course, can be through a 3rd party plugin)
Needs to have Wi-Fi or/and Zigbee capabilities
Between 220V and 230V (ideally 230V)
Its intensity can be changed from 0% to 100%
Its temperature color can be changed from cold to warm: I do not need an specific range but it needs to handle 4000K
High amount of light: specifically >= 800 lumens (ideally at 4000K)
Beam angle >= 120º
I have been searching a lot and I am struggling to find any that satisfies those requirements, the closest I was able to find was this 9W light bulb from Aliexpress (sold out now) but its light was sadly not powerful enough although I was able to configure it properly in Home Assistant.
It quite seems like I am running into a hardware limitation issue, but it boggles my mind that there is not any that powerful for some reason.
I would appreciate the help a lot, thank you in advance
P.S. In theory, the ones from Aliexpress that I bought are 800lm (that’s what the box says), but the difference between the non-smart ones (that are 720lm) and those ones in lighting is considerable… almost if they were not that much I would say
Gu10 are very hit and miss for smart lights. I’ve also been looking for brighter ones and haven’t had any luck. I currently have Moe’s gu10 x3 in my kitchen spotlights and they are ok when on white temp, but deff not as bright as a Phillips traditional gu10 bulb.
I am also searching for kitchen GU10 with ZHA as my zigbee flavour in HA.
I’ve been a big fan of Ikea Tradfri GU10s. Unfortunately these top out at 345lm which is fine for my living room but too dim for the kitchen.
I found Luumr 10024777 which are 630lm and dimmable - 4000k is a bit clinical for me, but they are very bright on 100%. They are detected by ZHA as colour change but they are not. 110° angle.
Innr’s 2025 gu10s are 470lm. I’m going to try those next. Adjustable white temp, but I’m not sure bright enough.
Im not wasting my time on any that don’t publish their brightness or colour temp.
I finally got hold of the Innr GU10. On the box and bulb it says 420lm but Innr customer support insist there was an error with the labelling and what they supplied are the 470lm bulbs. The brightness is considerably more than the Ikea and dimmer than the Luumr. The colour temp is adjustable, and unlike the Luumr there is a noticable difference between 100% and 75% brightness (luumr looks the same brightness between 100 and 20). The Ikea one is pretty dim at 100% - i cant imagine you would ever care to dim it. At least not in a kitchen.
I think we will go with the Innr. Also on their side is they are likely to be around a while, so getting one or two replacements that look the same feels more likely than smaller brands and Hue is silly money.
I’ve now bought 10 Innr GU10s and as far as the brightness goes they are pretty good. Unfortunately 2 out of the 10 won’t pair to ZHA. I added them one at a time, and the 2 that repeatedly fail were not the last 2 I tried.
