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Sengled wifi lightbulbs not keeping color settings? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 8 months ago by kryllic to c/[email protected]

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Hey all, hoping I can gain some insight into an issue I'm having with my sengled lightbulbs. Basically I have two scenes set up in HAS, one "default" scene that has all the lights at 100% brightness with soft white and another that is for movies that turns off all the light except two and modifies the color value to be a more orange, and lower brightness.

My issue is when trying to set the default scene, the color values of my pair of lights don't seem to keep the color temperature. The color picker will immediately clear any value I set after 2 seconds, and go back to the previous scene's brightness and color. I can usually go into the sengled app to reset the color to what I want but this is far from ideal.

It's important to note that I'm using the unofficial sengled api addon from HACS and I am not using the zigbee versions of the lightbulbs (I don't have a zigbee-compatible usb stick yet).

Is this an api limitation or something else I'm missing? Would the zigbee versions work better than the WiFi ones? My router is practically right next to the light bulbs so I doubt that's the issue.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Edit: OP isn't using Zigbee but I'm leaving this here

Don't buy SengLED bulbs. I don't know if it's cost cutting or if them believe their own bullshit, but their bulbs don't act as repeaters in a mesh network. Their excuse for the last 10 years is that most people still shut off their smart bulbs at the switch. I don't believe that.

When you populate your network with these you're losing the best repeater placements your setup can have and weakening your mesh network.

[–] kryllic 3 points 8 months ago

This is still good to know, I didn't know the bulbs were just endpoints, gonna avoid them going forward and find repeater zigbee bulbs instead. Thanks!

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