Smart Color Bulbs are NOT all created equal!

I’ve realized that after buying a couple of cheap (Amazon UK) Smart Color bulbs that all bulbs are not created equal!!
Even though I can change there brightness & color via the tuya app I cannot change there color using the home Assistant interface (lovelace) as my bulbs only support 3 features (Brightness + Color Temp = 3) I thought I’d found a solution after reading a post on this forum where a member edited the supported features in the Customizations to ENABLE the other features but this did not work for me. They appear in Home Assistant but have no effect.
SO, my question is can any members recommend some bulbs that support these features
SUPPORT_BRIGHTNESS = 1
SUPPORT_COLOR_TEMP = 2
SUPPORT_EFFECT = 4
SUPPORT_FLASH = 8
SUPPORT_RGB_COLOR = 16
SUPPORT_TRANSITION = 32
SUPPORT_XY_COLOR = 64
SUPPORT_WHITE_VALUE = 128
Or as many as possible
Also is there a way to find this out BEFORE buying a particular bulb

If it uses Tuya, flash it with Tasmota and control with MQTT. It’ll do whatever you want then.

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Not all tuya lights contain an esp. I know at least 2 which contain a realtek chip, so impossible to flash tasmota on it.

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I think the Philips Hue color bulbs support most if not all of these features.

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The overwhelming majority of bulbs on the market currently use an ESP chip. He already has the bulb, so it won’t cost him anything to attempt to flash it.

If it happens to be one of the 1% that use an alternitive chip, he can purchase a bulb known to be able to be flashed, by checking the Blakadder repo HERE

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I was trying to avoid flashing custom firmware to my smart tech, thats why my question did not mention it.
I’ve asked several questions on this forum and the vast majority of replies have made reference to flashing to ESP chip. I’m always very appreciative when people take the time to answer questions and try to help and I don’t want to sound unappreciative. I have even mentioned in previous questions that I do not want to flash my devices BUT the topic always seems to end up going down that avenue.
Thanks for the replies above and PLEASE do not take it that I’m having a moan, its just that some of us do not feel comfortable doing that sort of thing and running Home Assistant on my Raspberry pi and actually getting most of my smart tech working together is pushing me to my limits.

The reason it is a very popular solution is that it lets you locally control your light/switch from inside your house, it will no longer need to “call home” and talk to the cloud of the original manufacturer.

If you want to use the Tuya component to control your light, every time you want to turn the light on/off, it needs to talk to the Tuya cloud to do so. If you have no internet at any point, then your automations will fail to work and you will lose control of the light in HA.

There are ways around this by running custom components that allow local control of cloud based devices, but these are sometimes difficult to set up and can be far more involved that simply flashing Tasmota and using MQTT to control your light.

I recommend you watch some videos flashing Tasmota to your bulb, it can be daunting at first, but once you have done it a couple of times, it is very easy and takes less than 5 mins to complete.

Thanks Jason, I’m fully aware of the cloud system and how it works and I actually have tuyalocal setup and running reasonably well. Its just frustrating me that it feels like every time I ask a question in a new thread the discussion ends up on flashing custom firmware (like this one has) Please read my original question again then hopefully you will understand my frustrations.
Thanks anyway Jason for your encouragement on the flashing side of things, I have just ordered another Raspberry Pi to setup specifically for having a go with custom firmware but at this point in time that is not what I wanted to discuss

Another reason that it always goes down that avenue is because:

and that leads to:

which almost always results in:

People are giving you the best options to get you to the point that your bulbs can probably be controlled thru HA and ease your frustrations.

If you really don’t want to flash your tech with third-party firmware then start your threads by saying that and that you don’t even want to discuss it.

My guess would be, tho, that you will have a bunch of threads with a 0 in the replies column.