Activating Flash Mode on Brilliant
Make sure your bulb is in set up mode (fast light flashing at 0.5s intervals). Check your manual for how to achieve this with your device. Below is a video showing the process (very easy if you know what to do).
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Brilliant Smart WiFi Plug with USB Charger (Model 20676/05)
- Plug in device
- Make sure the device is switched off (solid red led)
- Hold button until red LED blinks rapidly
Brilliant Wifi Single Plug with Electricity Monitoring (Model 20925)
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Smart Home Integration
Tasmota Setup
Once flashed, your device enters the normal Tasmota setup process. Connect to the wifi network starting with tasmota-* and go to 192.168.4.1 to enter your regular WiFi password.
Tasmota Backlog Command
The backlog command in Tasmota can be used to quickly setup a series of devices
Use the following Backlog command in Tasmota device Admin interface to configure the device. Leave Hostname %s as is, it will then take the MQTT topic as host name (in my case son_kitchen_bulb.)
Backlog Hostname %s; FriendlyName Kitchen Bulb; MqttHost serverbox; MqttUser sonoff_user; Topic son_kitchen_bulb;Home Assistant Integration
All my Tasmota based LED lights are single-color, dimmable lights. The following mqtt light configuration should make this work well in Home Assistant.
- platform: mqtt
name: Bedroom Light
state_topic: "stat/son_bedroom_light/RESULT"
command_topic: "cmnd/son_bedroom_light/POWER"
state_value_template: ""
brightness_state_topic: "stat/son_bedroom_light/RESULT"
brightness_command_topic: "cmnd/son_bedroom_light/Dimmer"
brightness_value_template: ""
brightness_scale: 100
payload_on: "ON"
payload_off: "OFF"Conclusion
Tasmota is my favourite home automation project. All my lights and switches have been setup with this firmware. Brilliant smart switches (due to their security flaws) are easy to flash with Tasmota.
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