Thread by @troyhunt

I’m developing a serious IoT habit here...

So two different RGB LED down lights: on the left is an Atom rubbing the Wiz IoT platform and costs A$43. I’ve run 2 of these for a couple of weeks and they’re “ok”, painful to connect to @home_assistant and needed a custom integration manually installed idealelectrical.com/aie/category/L…

On the right is what looks like a generic brand from @OzSmartThings (who have *awesome* service!) at A$35 and works with Tuya which has a nice integration already with @home_assistant and I'm presently using it for a bunch of other devices ozsmartthings.com.au/collections/fe…

Most obvious visual things about the second (cheaper) lights are a wider light surface area (80mm v 70mm), flush fit to the ceiling and all circuitry built into the light unit rather than the inline box. Promising, let's chuck one in the roof and see how it goes...

The issue of the old square plates from the previous lights leaving an outline aside, visually they’re much of a muchness and I don’t care too much for one over the other. Maybe the newer flusher unit just because it’s a little neater.

So how do you pair the new ones? Let’s start with the TROUBLE SHOOING guide and go from there 🤣

Let’s add a ceiling light - oh, they’re “coming” soon. No biggy, let’s pretend it’s an LED strip and that works just fine and it’s now a “smart bulb” 🤷‍♂️

An in-place back-to-back:

Interesting delay in the different lights too, definitely want to end up having the same brand in one one room