What a GREAT start to the new year. In case you don’t know, IoTorero is the new name for Athom. I was expecting some boring old lights for our new home from AliExpress, but no, a package from IoTorero arrived this morning and the very first thing I spotted was a large RGBCW LAMP.
You likely don’t know but the Athom (Tasmota firmware) lamps have been my long-time favourite as they are large and BRIGHT. I’ve not realised how bright until in the process of moving home right now I took a couple out and replaced them with old 60 watt filament lights which are absolutely pathetic by comparison.
This particular light is the LB10-12W and it’s a full RGBCW light working NOT on Tasmota as the ones I’ve used before but on ESPHome which should mean easy installation straight into Home Assistant.
As in the past, I plugged the light into the mains, and it started flashing incessantly (in colour) and told my phone to use the new Wi-Fi access point that magically appeared.
Under router settings on the phone, I told the phone to look at the home page for the router, which was the usual 192.168.4.1 and that page pointed out all of my Wi-Fi access points at which point I chose my nearest 2.4Ghz access point and put that and its password into the page (i.e. into the lamp. Job done.
I didn’t have to power cycle the lamp or anything.
I then went into Home Assistant on my PC, and a new colour light magically appeared. Did I want to use it? Yes, but with a name change. Really – THAT simple.
Wonderful start to the new year. I’ve a load of IoTorero stuff to look at but that’s all I have time for, for now. Here’s the lamp as it appears in Home Assistant – I just took one of my existing lamp tiles and renamed the Entity for the new light.
I use custom tiles and add in the ha-card code to make the tiles look pretty. See the light name I gave it on line 2. Of course none of that complication ns necessary but I do it once then cut and paste to the rest of my lights. See also (below the yaml code) the list of entities that HA provided for use with the lamp.
type: custom:mushroom-legacy-template-card
entity: light.athom_esphome_1_rgbcw_bulb
primary: First new Athom
secondary: "{{ { 'on': 'On', 'off': 'Off' }.get(states(config.entity), 'Unavailable') }}"
icon: mdi:lightbulb
icon_color: >
{% set color = state_attr(config.entity, 'rgb_color') %} {% if
is_state(config.entity, 'on') and color %}
#{{ '%02x' % color[0] }}{{ '%02x' % color[1] }}{{ '%02x' % color[2] }}
{% else %}
#a9a9a9
{% endif %}
tap_action:
action: toggle
hold_action:
action: more-info
card_mod:
style: |
ha-card {
border: 1px solid darkcyan;
text-align: right;
--card-primary-color: cyan;
--card-secondary-color:
{% if is_state(config.entity, 'on') %} #00ff00
{% else %} #a9a9a9
{% endif %};
background:
{% if is_state(config.entity, 'on') %} radial-gradient(circle, #882800 30%, #461006);
{% else %} radial-gradient(circle, #113864 30%, #261033);
{% endif %};
}
Note that in the device settings I ensured the bulb is assigned to an area as it is also a Bluetooth proxy by default as it uses an ESP32-C3 – my HA Bermuda integration automatically flagged this up – could be useful in the future. All-in, very impressed.
