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Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!
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Possible to support Philips Wiz lights? #2111

Open sofakng opened 3 years ago

sofakng commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Philips Wiz lights are extremely cheap compared to Philips Hue and it would be nice to see them supported.

Describe the solution you'd like Support for Philips Wiz bulbs.

Describe alternatives you've considered n/a

Additional context There are Python libraries for controlling Philips Wiz and I think the protocol has been (mostly?) reverse engineered.

huggy-d1 commented 3 years ago

I think you can find online resources for hacking into the wiz lights, loading WLED to it (or Tasmota), and from there, you have access to it via wifi for loading whatever firmware will fit inside available memory.

probonopd commented 2 years ago

I think you can find online resources for hacking into the wiz lights

Is this possible without physically opening the Wiz devices?

ChuckMash commented 2 years ago

I've been able to get WLED running on a WiZ LED Strip & Controller, just takes a bit to deal with the single core ESP32 variant. https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/issues/2171

I've also been able to get WLED loaded onto the bulbs, however, the process of gaining physical access to the ESP is decently destructive and leaves the bulb in an extremely impractical state for use.

I'm still examining other options for non-destructive modification for the bulbs, but it doesn't look good at this point.

ChuckMash commented 9 months ago

By the way, and for anyone else stumbling to this issue, WiZ Lights have been supported by WLED for a little while now with a usermod. https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/tree/main/usermods/wizlights