This could be a good deal on two zigbee 3.0 RGBW bulbs and a zigbee 3.0 outlet

aaiyar · March 21, 2021, 9:38pm

I saw this on Amazon a little while back:

https://www.amazon.com/CMARS-Starting-Dimmable-Changing-SmartThings/dp/B08VJBVBTT/

Two CMARS RGBW bulbs along with an outlet for $35.99. They're all zigbee 3.0 - and I know the outlet works with Hubitat just fine.

The bulbs are also zigbee 3.0. That Amazon page has a terrible description, but I know that they are RGBW bulbs that support color temperature from warm white to cool white, based on folks using them with zigbee2mqtt.

They were marked as $8.00 off today, so I ordered all three. Will update this post to indicate if the bulbs work with Hubitat and what the color and color temperature look like.

aaiyar · March 23, 2021, 10:24pm

Here's the promised followup. The bulbs pair to Hubitat very easily as "Advanced Zigbee Bulb". They do not respond as anticipated with the "Advanced Zigbee RGBW Bulb" driver, but do work fine with the "Generic Zigbee RGBW Light" driver.

The bulbs identify themselves as:

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CT ranges from 2700-6500K. The bulbs put out plenty of light in CT mode.

Color reproduction in RGB mode is pretty good - at least as good as Sengled (examples below), but at a level of 100%, the lumens output is about 30-50% of that output in CT mode at 4000K.

@mike.maxwell, if you'd like to add the device fingerprint to the "Generic ZigBee RGBW Light" driver for a future platform release, here it is:

Bottom-line: If I needed cheap zigbee 3.0 rgbw bulbs, I'd get more of these. They seem to play okay with other zigbee devices.

erktrek · April 19, 2021, 6:55pm

wow missed this post entirely - thanks the review. Good to have some good low cost alternatives to Sengled (I still like Sengled!).

subscriptions1 · May 21, 2021, 8:20pm

I'm just getting my Hubitat online and thought this would be a good starter set. However, I'm curious if anyone has this bulb working? Using an Advanced Zigbee RGBW setting, I can turn on the bulb and change color, but not the temperature and can not turn off the bulb. the Generic Zigbee RGBW is doing nothing.

aaiyar · May 21, 2021, 8:27pm

After you change drivers to “Generic Zigbee RGBW Light”, make sure that you click “Configure” on the device page.

Edit: As a general tip, it is always a good idea to click “Configure” after changing drivers.

neonturbo · May 21, 2021, 8:41pm

These are under $25 now. So pretty good for a couple color bulbs and plug.

alexd51 · May 22, 2021, 5:22pm

Now i know why i had so many problems with some stuff before never did this.

erktrek · June 23, 2021, 8:55pm

@aaiyar I dunno if these are Zigbee 3.0 but seem like a good deal right now if they are..

aaiyar · June 23, 2021, 9:32pm

They are. Liokkie is another brand name that the eWeLink outlets and bulbs are sold under. And that is a good deal!

frmWink2Hubitat · June 23, 2021, 9:52pm

Do you like these bulbs as much as Sengled? Does power restore state work?

erktrek · June 23, 2021, 10:08pm

I just bought 2 packs of these for giggles so will report back how it works out!

frmWink2Hubitat · June 23, 2021, 10:10pm

Looking forward to it!

frmWink2Hubitat · June 24, 2021, 1:04am

Doesn’t the new zigbee driver have power restore state as well?

erktrek · June 24, 2021, 1:08am

What driver are you referring to - the Advanced Zigbee driver? I do see that as a preference option dunno if it works on all devices though but maybe. That would be very cool.

aaiyar · June 24, 2021, 1:09am

I’m not sure that driver works with these bulbs. At least it didn’t with the ones I tested.

erktrek · June 24, 2021, 1:11am

There are several versions of the advanced driver. Did you try the Advanced Zigbee RGB Bulb driver? That seems like it would be the closest other than the basic one.

aaiyar · June 24, 2021, 1:15am

I tried this one - "Advanced Zigbee RGBW Bulb". Didn't work right. OTOH, "Generic Zigbee RGBW Light" worked well.

Edit: FWIW, it paired as "Advanced Zigbee Bulb". I don't know if the fingerprint has been added to the Generic Zigbee RGBW Light driver ....

erktrek · June 24, 2021, 1:16am

Are you sure it's RGBW not RGB? The details don't mention white level but I totally could have missed it.

aaiyar · June 24, 2021, 1:18am

Yup. The bulbs do have white (the description on Amazon is incorrect). It is 16 million colors RGB and 2700-6500K white.

erktrek · June 24, 2021, 1:19am

Yeah sorry I did totally miss it in the details..

❥Living a Colorful Life --- Designed with over 16 million colors to choose, scenes DIY, schedule function and 800lm(2700k-6500k) warm white. Just switch to your desired light mode to suit your mood and adjust the brightness to meet your needs.

Wow for the price I can live with whatever driver... am very excited to check this out.

Thanks again for this thread (and many others) and your always excellent advice!