I'm so excited I found this! I've been trying to find a high lumen bulb that I could easily get to Tasmota/ESPHome! However, I can't seem to find this available for purchase at Tindie/Aliexpress :( Any idea of when it'll be back in stock anywhere for me to buy?
@Andris Zarsss Well, at full brightness I can imagine it'd get hot. I don't necessarily need full brightness all the time, but the 700-800lm from most other bulbs just isn't enough sometimes, and I can just have it turned down except for the times I need the brightness.
Not working so well. At the blue end of the range, the light is completely off... the cw led's really never engage. At the lower ends of intensity, the bulb just turns off.
OTOH this works in Tasmota, it just doesn't control correctly from Home Assistant.
It's almost like I wasted a bit of $$ on these bulbs. I wanted to use them to get away from she-who-must-not-be-named (Al*xa), but in order to use them, I need to use Tasmota with Philips emulation and then control them with... Al*xa.
Not using Alexa so I can not comment on that or how it integrates with HA. I use HA with the nabu casa subscription for Google Home integration.
If Tasmota is functioning correctly for you, then the ESPHome config can likely be adjusted to work exactly the same in terms of capabilities. I had to make assumptions in my config, and acknowledge it isn't perfect.
Would be great if Athom would publish fully functional configs for ESPHome since the direct HA integration is a winning feature for me.
I don't have one of the bulbs yet, going to have to wait until after Chinese New Years and they end up getting some more made, but definitely anxiously awaiting some!
When the lights turn on, the color temperature is always fully cool. Is there a way to make it start up at the warm end? It's much brighter when fully on the yellow side of the temp bar.
When my HA install crashes, or when wifi router loses connection, light bulb turns on in blueish color. Is there anything i could do to keep it off and how can i code default color?
My guess is that like other devices that have a blue "status" led that flashes when no HA or WiFi, that the lightbulb is mimicking this by showing blue.
You may be able to prevent this by pushing the status led to an unused GPIO in the config.
This is working for anyone that might be interested
substitutions: devicename: athomlightbulb upper_devicename: Athom Light Bulb esphome: name: $devicename platform: ESP8266 board: esp8285 wifi: ssid: !secret wifi_ssid password: !secret wifi_password captive_portal: # Enable logging logger: # Enable Home Assistant API api: ota: web_server: port: 80 output: - platform: esp8266_pwm id: output_red pin: GPIO4 - platform: esp8266_pwm id: output_green pin: GPIO12 - platform: esp8266_pwm id: output_blue pin: GPIO14 - platform: esp8266_pwm id: output_warm_white pin: GPIO5 - platform: esp8266_pwm id: output_cold_white pin: GPIO13 light: - platform: rgbww name: "${upper_devicename}" red: output_red green: output_green blue: output_blue cold_white: output_cold_white warm_white: output_warm_white cold_white_color_temperature: 6000 K warm_white_color_temperature: 3000 K restore_mode: ALWAYS_ON color_interlock: falseThe colour temperature isn't perfect, the "blue" white on the left is dim.
Also you might want to research these two settings to suite your use.
restore_mode: ALWAYS_ON color_interlock: falseManaged to upload a firmware, but HA is not offering any color changes, just on or off. Am i missing something?
In Lovelace, you need to make sure the bulb is on, and then click the three dots.
Also, you have to remove the "White" value to zero in order to use the colour wheel.
That was a problem here! Thank you.
I'm so excited I found this! I've been trying to find a high lumen bulb that I could easily get to Tasmota/ESPHome! However, I can't seem to find this available for purchase at Tindie/Aliexpress :( Any idea of when it'll be back in stock anywhere for me to buy?
Mine is getting very hot.
@Andris Zarsss Well, at full brightness I can imagine it'd get hot. I don't necessarily need full brightness all the time, but the 700-800lm from most other bulbs just isn't enough sometimes, and I can just have it turned down except for the times I need the brightness.
Not working so well. At the blue end of the range, the light is completely off... the cw led's really never engage. At the lower ends of intensity, the bulb just turns off.
OTOH this works in Tasmota, it just doesn't control correctly from Home Assistant.
It's almost like I wasted a bit of $$ on these bulbs. I wanted to use them to get away from she-who-must-not-be-named (Al*xa), but in order to use them, I need to use Tasmota with Philips emulation and then control them with... Al*xa.
Not using Alexa so I can not comment on that or how it integrates with HA. I use HA with the nabu casa subscription for Google Home integration.
If Tasmota is functioning correctly for you, then the ESPHome config can likely be adjusted to work exactly the same in terms of capabilities. I had to make assumptions in my config, and acknowledge it isn't perfect.
Would be great if Athom would publish fully functional configs for ESPHome since the direct HA integration is a winning feature for me.
Here, i made this custom light component for ESPHome: https://github.com/jaddel/ESPHome/tree/master/Devices/Bulb%20Athom%2015W%20RGBWCT
That's cool. Only comment would be to update
board: esp01_1mto
board: esp8285in the yaml.
Will give this a go and see how well it works 😎
I'm a little late to the party, but found https://www.reddit.com/r/Esphome/comments/kscy9z/custom_light_component_need_c_advice_athom_15w/
I don't have one of the bulbs yet, going to have to wait until after Chinese New Years and they end up getting some more made, but definitely anxiously awaiting some!
@Martin Leonard the 7w has an esp8285 bord the 15w is 8266
When the lights turn on, the color temperature is always fully cool. Is there a way to make it start up at the warm end? It's much brighter when fully on the yellow side of the temp bar.
When my HA install crashes, or when wifi router loses connection, light bulb turns on in blueish color. Is there anything i could do to keep it off and how can i code default color?
My guess is that like other devices that have a blue "status" led that flashes when no HA or WiFi, that the lightbulb is mimicking this by showing blue.
You may be able to prevent this by pushing the status led to an unused GPIO in the config.
You might try this in your ESP config
status_led: pin: number: GPIOXX inverted: yesChange GPIOXX to reflect an unused GPIO. This may redirect it away from the lightbulb LED's. I've never tried though, so it may not work.