Low cost Zigbee GU10s via Ikea (UK)

For those of you in the UK, IKEA currently has a steep discount on their GU10 bulbs. I've just picked up several dimmable, colour temperature controlled bulbs for £5 each.

They play nicely with HA via a sonoff dongle and ZigBee2MQTT, even down to firmware updates.

peter , 6 months ago

Ikea makes some of the best smart home stuff IMO. Really well built, decently priced and no stupid lock in or cloud only stuff.

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RandomLegend , 6 months ago

Every single bulb in my home is from IKEA and i was really happy with how easily they are to be integrated.

Sadly they aren't repeaters for the regular zigbee network, only for other IKEA devices.

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cynar OP , 6 months ago

They definitely are repeaters. I had issues with a Moe's ZigBee dimmer. It turned out it was relaying off of an IKEA bulb. When that lamp got turned off at the switch, it killed the link. I ended up using a smart plug as a repeater.

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Lifebandit666 , 6 months ago

I second this statement. Most of my bulbs are IKEA. I have 4 floors and my ZigBee dongle is on the ground. If they weren't repeaters, my Aqara motion sensors wouldn't be working, but they do!

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