#Best smart bulbs

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fickle yew
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Hi folks! I need to get a couple of new smart bulbs that I want to use with Home Assistant. Ideally they should work with HA without an extra app or account from any external company. And they should be able to change colors. Which bulbs do you recommend?

elder flaxBOT
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Looking for advice about a device to buy? Remember to provide guidance on:

  • Which country you're in
  • What your budget is
  • What protocols you prefer (eg Zigbee, WiFi, Z-Wave)
  • Any features you want (such as power monitoring, dimming, etc)
rain ore
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Sounds like you want Zigbee bulbs

fickle yew
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Germany, budget is secondary, protocol secondary, but no hubs or accounts, dimming and color

rain ore
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Hue's bulbs (Zigbee) are pretty much the gold standard

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Innr and Gledopto do good bulbs too, and Ikea's CT (colour temperature white) bulbs aren't bad - all Zigbee

fickle yew
rain ore
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No, they're not

fickle yew
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Sorry, are we talking about Philips Hue?

rain ore
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Yes

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They're Zigbee

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Any Zigbee device works without the manufacturer hub

fickle yew
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I can use those without the bridge. But I cannot put them in pairing mode and so forth.

rain ore
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Yes, you can

fickle yew
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Nope.

rain ore
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Yep

fickle yew
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only if they have bluetooth

rain ore
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Nope

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Ok.

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You do you

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I'll sit over here in reality and leave you to it

fickle yew
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Okay. Then tell me how I can put a Philips Hue light into pairing mode without the Hub please 🙂

rain ore
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Why don't you read the link I posted, that you ignored in favour of repeating yourself and telling me I don't know what I'm talking about

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And on that note, I'm done here

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good luck

outer kindle
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If you have a Hue bridge already you can just use that to reset them anyway, no? And new ones are in pairing mode out of the box so if you're talking about adding new bulbs getting them into pairing mode is not an issue.

fickle yew