I recently moved from SmartThings to HomeAssistant. One of the things I didn’t have to think about too much with SmartThings was how to authenticate all of my connected devices (laptops, phones, tablets, etc.) with my HA platform. I wanted to find a good balance between security and convenience with HomeAssistant. HomeAssistant makes it easy to secure your […]
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Reverse engineering the new Milight/LimitlessLED 2.4 GHz Protocol
My last post went over an ESP8266-based wifi gateway for Milight/LimitlessLED bulbs. This supports a few kinds of bulbs that have been around for a couple of years (e.g., this one). About a year ago, newer bulbs and controllers started showing up that used a different 2.4 GHz protocol. This introduced some scrambling that made […]
Milight WiFi Gateway Emulator on an ESP8266
Milight bulbs* are cheap smart bulbs that are controllable with an undocumented 2.4 GHz protocol. In order to control them, you either need a remote* (~$13), which allows you to control them directly, or a WiFi gateway* (~$30), which allows you to control them with a mobile app or a UDP protocol. A few days […]