Prerequisites

  • Costco Feit Color Bulb :)
  • Tuya Local API Key (Online has some good resources to obtain that)
  • Tuya Local plugin via the HACS store.

The Seemingly impossible to find settings

I struggled with this for a good while and believe I came up with the correct settings when adding this in Tuya Local, below are my notes:

Tuya Local Settings for the bulbs:

  • Brightness 3
  • Color Temp 3
  • Brightness Lower Value: 23
  • Brightness Upper Value 255
  • Color Mode 2
  • Color 2
  • Minimum Color Temp in K 2700
  • Maximum Color Temp in K 6500
  • Color Temp Reverse Unchecked
  • Scene 1
  • Music Mode Available Unchecked

Using the above settings, we have near accurate color and control of the bulbs. I’m aware that some firmware may change this as I had one new bulb I put in not match the color settings until I updated it to the most current at the time I took these notes (about 6 months ago). But I think and hope that if you are struggling with getting these to work with Home Assistant, this will help!

    • node815@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I liked them enough to purchase a total of 8, so yes. Once integrated, they are quite fast no delays that I’ve seen so far. I have 3 in the living room (our apartment doesn’t supply any overhead lighting), and usually run them white all the time, but on the rare occasion, I do like to tint them to a different color (Holidays usually) to fit the mood. Then have 1 in the bedroom.

      There is also Tuya Cloud Cutter which I got to work with one bulb to permanently decouple a bulb from Tuya’s servers, it provided a new key. I ended up bricking it after by getting brave and flashing Tasmota to it (no longer powered up). So, I took that as a loss. Eventually, I will decouple the rest to make it more cloud free. I will say that in order to properly get the keys, you will need to download the Tuya App from your app store, factory reset the bulbs, then pair them with the app. The app will complain about some device issues, but those are safe to ignore, once they are connected to your Tuya Cloud, then you can harvest the local key.