1y ago

Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK)

www.ikea.com TRÅDFRI LED bulb GU10 345 lumen, smart wireless dimmable/white spectrum - IKEA

TRÅDFRI LED bulb GU10 345 lumen, smart wireless dimmable/white spectrum Is the kitchen table a place for breakfast, work, homework and cosy dinners? With this smart light bulb you can dim and change the light tone from cold to warm to get the perfect light for every occasion.

For those of you in the UK, IKEA currently has a steep discount on their GU10 bulbs. I've just picked up several dimmable, colour temperature controlled bulbs for £5 each.

They play nicely with HA via a sonoff dongle and ZigBee2MQTT, even down to firmware updates.

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Ikea makes some of the best smart home stuff IMO. Really well built, decently priced and no stupid lock in or cloud only stuff.
- Every single bulb in my home is from IKEA and i was really happy with how easily they are to be integrated.
  Sadly they aren't repeaters for the regular zigbee network, only for other IKEA devices.
  
  They definitely are repeaters. I had issues with a Moe's ZigBee dimmer. It turned out it was relaying off of an IKEA bulb. When that lamp got turned off at the switch, it killed the link. I ended up using a smart plug as a repeater.
  
  Bulbs don't usually work well as repeaters anyway. Their smart plugs tend to work well, although I wish they had power monitoring support.