23
Light bulbs
(lemmus.org)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
23 points (96.0% liked)
homeassistant
18975 readers
402 users here now
Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.
Home Assistant can be self-installed on ProxMox, Raspberry Pi, or even purchased pre-installed: Home Assistant: Installation
Discussion of Home-Assistant adjacent topics is absolutely fine, within reason.
If you're not sure, DM @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Phillips hue bulbs are solid but on the pricy side.
Govee is ok, I recommend making sure you get ones that have Matter capability. Same with LifX brand.
Iim sure there are other brands but those are 3 I have experience with.
IKEA's seem okay too, they're just not the brightest around. The older models are ZigBee, the newer ones are Matter over Thread (although I've heard some will also work with ZigBee).
I got some expensive Hue bulbs just because they were the most powerful Zigbee bulbs I could find where I live. Almost all other Zigbee bulbs are way too dim, for some reason.
I can second the Hue bulbs.
They're good quality, and connect directly to a zigbee dongle without the Signiant app/Hub.
In my area we have a brand called LEDvance, which ships both wifi and zigbee bulbs. I have some of the Zigbee ones and I don't need anything other than HomeAssistant to add them to my network.