#Cheap HA Compatible Strip Lights

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turbid mica
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Looking for some cheaper HA compatible strip lights. I live in New Zealand but i can ship something from Amazon or whatever. Power draw is a consideration as we are on solar here. Willing to spend up to 100 USD for 2 ~3meter strip lights/leds

Ideally need to be completely local and not send my data off to companies and work without external network access

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https://www.amazon.com/Kasa-Smart-SmartThings-Brightness-KL420L5/dp/B09QBD5J7S?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qQdOPyQ1nXI8OpPZ0rKavQ.5hPN9UmZZfHpBNfCNAskylfTwdrC9vg5dgin2B4BH0Q&dib_tag=se&th=1

how are these?

Kasa Smart LED Light Strip, 50 Color Zones RGBIC, 16.4ft Wi-Fi LED ...

Transform the ambiance of your bedroom, gaming area, work station, and more with the Kasa Smart WiFi RGBIC LED Light strip. Cut the 16.4 ft. smart light strip to perfectly match your bed frame or cabinets, and choose from unlimited lighting effects with 16 million fully dimmable color choices and...

jaunty muskBOT
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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)
dense wave
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Completely local will be Zigbee (or Z-Wave, or Matter/Thread)

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You can buy a Gledopto LED controller for not very much (in most countries anyway) and compatible LED strip of whatever quality you want

turbid mica
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this is all quite confusing to me.... zigbee isnt a brand its a protocol right?

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how would my home assistant/rpi communicate with that protocol? is it wireless over wifi? wireless via BLE? USB?

empty sentinel
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Zigbee is a a protocol (as is zwave) you’d need a coordinator (usb stick) that broadcasts one of those from your ha server.

Zigbee coordinator: https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/

zwave coordinator: https://www.thesmartesthouse.com/collections/gateway-controllers/products/zooz-800-series-z-wave-long-range-usb-stick-zst39

Home Assistant
Home Assistant Connect ZBT-1

Best way to add Zigbee and Thread to Home Assistant

The Smartest House
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turbid mica
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okay great and the Zigbee controller connects to the compatible devices over a wireless connection?

empty sentinel
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Yes

turbid mica
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gotcha! thanks so much, i think ill get the zigbee connector dongle and find myself some compatible strip leds

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so any zigbee compatible leds will work right?

empty sentinel
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They definitely should. I would do exactly what Tinkerer recommended. Get the coordinator I suggested, then get a gledopto zigbee led controller and one of the LED strips they recommend to use with it.

turbid mica
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the gledopto method seems a bit more expensive then that giderwel option

turbid mica
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all the gledopto ones are sold out and will have to ship to me from euorpe 😭

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okay i bought the zigbee HA dongle

turbid mica
turbid mica
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fuck it, I ordered them

reef trellis
turbid mica
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wow that was a while ago haha