#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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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

Best way to add Zigbee and Thread to Home Assistant

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