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Smart light bulb suggestions (lemmy.trippy.pizza)

I'm completely out of the smart lights loop and I'm looking for light bulbs that allow me to set brightness, color temperature and possibly the color in general using HA.

I see a lot of people recommending zigbee bulbs, which is fine, I just need to buy a dongle, but I already have an isolated wifi network with no internet access that I use to control smart stuff from my home server, so something with wifi would be ideal. I want something that I can just screw in and control from my server with no proprietary apps needed for the initial configuration.

Can you give me some recommendations?

Thanks

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[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I don't have any Hue devices so I don't follow that too closely, but there's quite a bit of info on the changes at The Verge which is linked on top of that previous blog post on my comment. Apparently you'll need an account to get firmware updates and enabling functionality, but not continous connectivity.

But maybe more important point here is that they have changed their policy and there's nothing stopping them from changing it again, potentially even removing functionality unless you use their app.

[-] Badabinski@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago

If they stop zigbee2mqtt from automagically updating their bulbs then they're dead to me.

this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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