SA smart lights that can be flashed with Tasmota

[Chevauxza]

So instead of posting in the plugs thread one I figured I'd start a thread to keep track of which smart lights can be obtained locally and can be flashed with Tasmota.

So far I can confirm the Qualitel ALS08L (link here) can be flashed via Tuya-convert so presumably their B22 version will work too. Only thing on the ALS08L is there is a Tasmota template for the 1100 lumen, but the one that you get is the 800 lumen. Not sure if it makes a difference. With this template it works for on and off but the colours don't seem to work correctly from HA. If you don't set the colour temperature to high, the light is very dim.

The Qualitel GU10 smart light (link here) is not flashable with tuya-convert however. With the standard integration in HA this means you can't control the RGB side but you can change brightness and colour temperature.

For anyone interested in using a heat gun to take the GU10 light apart, I dropped one accidentally. Here are pics of the insides:











...and thanks @ebendl for the thread inspiration

 

[Chevauxza]

So just as a note to all, it seems the new batch of Qualitel smart lights (including the ALS08L/E27's I mentioned) can no longer be flashed with tuya convert, meaning you need to open the light to flash. The previous batch of GU10's and E27's etc could be flashed with tuya but the new batch must have had a patch applied.

 

[AxField]

That’s correct. I put some pics up here in one of the threads showing how to open the E27 bulbs and flashing the esp modules directly.

As a matter of interest, Qualitel is now running a special on all their globes. I grabbed some more E27 ones and will try the GU10’s as well; I ordered extra GU10’s for in case I have to dremel it open to see how it comes apart.

 

[ebendl]

Wasn't it established the GU10s use a different wifi chipset and can't be flashed?

 

[rafdotcom]

Wasn't it established the GU10s use a different wifi chipset and can't be flashed?

I bought couple GU10’s a few months back and was able to flash them without issue. I was short one bulb at the time and waited for new stock.. not sure if the new stock can be flashed

 

[Chevauxza]

I bought couple GU10’s a few months back and was able to flash them without issue. I was short one bulb at the time and waited for new stock.. not sure if the new stock can be flashed

+1 The old stock GU10's were flashable with tuya convert, the new stock is not compatible.

 

[AxField]

****...

 

[hj2k_x]

Maybe people can also add short reviews of the different bulbs available locally, as well as whether they are flash-able? I don't have any (yet) so can't help with either question...

 

[AxField]

Wasn't it established the GU10s use a different wifi chipset and can't be flashed?

+1 The old stock GU10's were flashable with tuya convert, the new stock is not compatible.

Ok, so I got a few of the GU10 globes and while Tuya Convert doesn't work, I can confirm it still uses ESP8266 chips. So yes, you can flash them with Tasmota but it's a pain to open them. For those adventurous enough I've added some pics. There's also not a standard mapping that works, but I've made one that's a bit of a hack, but the colours work properly now and it splits over to the dedicated warm white leds when set to 'White'

Red - IO12
White - IO5
Green - IO14
Blue - IO4

{"NAME":"RGBW11","GPIO":[0,0,0,0,39,40,0,0,37,41,38,0,0],"FLAG":0,"BASE":18}






And for the pinouts to wire them to the UART



Tadaaa



EDIT: Just ignore the way they are powered; it's in a controlled lab and I didn't have any GU11 holders here with me

 

[ebendl]

Looks like you had to use adhesive to put them back together?

 

[AxField]

I still have to put it together. I ran out of white silicone (which is what the factory uses to keep the led board in place), so will pick some up later. The dome of the light looks like it is attached using a clear adhesive, which I do have some of

 

[AlphaJohn]

Disappointed with Connex (Tuya) multicolored E27 10W I got from IC.

Can flash them but the hardware sucks.

Have ring of warm white LED's and center have separate RGB. Cant change the warm white to cool blue and the moment you use color the white ring turns off and only center led's work

 

[AxField]

That's kinda how they all supposed to work. The internal PSU can't run both sets of lights. You can play with the Tasmota settings to split the lights (setoption37 128) which will give you a separate, independent colour and white channel for each light. It works pretty well actually, just use with caution

 

[ebendl]

That's kinda how they all supposed to work. The internal PSU can't run both sets of lights. You can play with the Tasmota settings to split the lights (setoption37 128) which will give you a separate, independent colour and white channel for each light. It works pretty well actually, just use with caution

Meaning you can blow the PSU if you run both of them?

 

[AxField]

Meaning you can blow the PSU if you run both of them?

Potentially. I'm not sure what the PSU is rated for (the globe is apparently 4.5W). It's just something I picked up in the Tasmota docs and once I thought about it, it made sense. Why include high brightness white LEDs and have the RGB LEDs go white as well? If I had to guess the idea was for them to not be simultaneously used, simply because RGB LEDs doesn't have the same intensity of proper white LEDs. Anyway, just some random rambling from me...

 

[ShellySA]

 

[ShellySA]

Hi @ gbyleveldt

Shelly DUO range, competing with Philips Hue are Cloud and MQTT enabled.

 

[AlphaJohn]

Potentially. I'm not sure what the PSU is rated for (the globe is apparently 4.5W). It's just something I picked up in the Tasmota docs and once I thought about it, it made sense. Why include high brightness white LEDs and have the RGB LEDs go white as well? If I had to guess the idea was for them to not be simultaneously used, simply because RGB LEDs doesn't have the same intensity of proper white LEDs. Anyway, just some random rambling from me...

Make sense, but kinda crap

I saw some Home assistant set-ups where the lights color temp depends on time of day and to not have cool blue at night but in the morning.

Sadly I thought I can get away with going cheap... but sadly that's a no. Color LED's waay to dim to use as a normal light and cant use both at same time

Just thought I would mention it encase some reader also wanna go for the cheap ones.

Hi @ gbyleveldt

Shelly DUO range, competing with Philips Hue are Cloud and MQTT enabled.

Yeah looks like I have to go Duo at least they cheaper than Philips

Just have to pick a no takeout month

 

[AxField]

Just thought I would mention it encase some reader also wanna go for the cheap ones.

Well, technically it's not cheap if you have to strip them to make them work the way I want them to. But I had them, and some free time. I wouldn't buy more that's for sure.

 

[Chevauxza]

Wow @gbyleveldt - amazing! Seems like it's not worth opening up the Qualitel ones.

@ShellySA - are those lights Tasmota compatible?