Enhancing Smart Lighting in Your Home

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I started discovering the Zigbee world a few months ago when I added to my Home Assistant setup the ConBee II Zigbee USB gateway and a couple of Aqara sensors .

Time has passed and recently I've bought the following Zigbee LED bulbs:

They offer several advantages over traditional LED bulbs including the ability to control their brightness and color. Thanks to Home Assistant you can also configure a multitude of automations to switch them ON/OFF according to specifc triggers / conditions.

In this article, we will explore the integration of Zigbee LED bulbs with Home Assistant, let's get started!

Hardware configuration

• ConBee II Zigbee USB gateway ?plugged into the USB port of my QNAP NAS
• LED bulbs mentioned above

Software configuration

• Home Assistant . I'm currently running version?2023.7.1
• Zigbee home automation integration ?configured in?Home Assistant

Procedure

When the new bulbs have been added to the Zigbee network according to istructions provided by the vendor, the following page will get some information about them:

Please notice that powered Zigbee devices operate as Router (1) in the sense that they can pass data between other devices and/or the coordinator helping to extend the network.

Through this interface (section 2) it's also possible to configure the:

• On level
• ON/OFF transition time
• Behaviour on start-up
• Start-up color temperature as well as level

The last section (3) magically allows you to manually turn the bulb ON and OFF:

This is just the beginning, I'll introduce some super cool automations in future articles so that you can get inspired on how to get Zigbee LED bulbs make your home environment perfectly lit!

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