Almost exactly two years ago I bought 2 sets of “FVTLED” Spotlights for my garden, a typical china product that is probably sold under lots of different names. It recently quite frustrated me because after those two years both started flashing in R - G - B - WW - … circles at the same time and the remotes didn’t work any more. Completely resetting this fixed the colorful circles but not the remotes. New batteries did neither.
The wifi connection with the vendor app “Magic Home Pro” has also been flakey at best and I’d like not to have this horrible software on my phone or in my network… but I can’t figure out whether this can be flashed with ESPHome and if so, how to do it.
Just to be sure: I’d look inside the “LED Controller” boxes, not “LED driver”, right? If so, waterproofing doesn’t seem to be much of an issue since ther is no IP class written on it anyways.
Yes, potted for waterproofing reasons. It’s a pita to get this out (and not damage sensitive electronics). Afterwards it will not be waterproof anymore if you don’t put in new rubber/gel stuff.
I think I’ll keep going with “put a smart switch in front of it and use that to turn it on and off” then for now… destroying this would be quite some trouble. But thanks for the assistance
Just did that and it seems to be an “AK001-ZJ200” with “<LEDENETChip.ESP8266: 1>”
So that means it would probably be flashable if I got rid of all the waterproofing material, right? I think the possibility of damaging it trying this is a bit too high for me right now but it’s good to know that this could be done
and contains something capable of providing wifi - hopefully a esp so you can free & own the device 
