After watching your first video on Athom products ordered 2ea of the Athom Smart Plugs as well as an 8 Channel Relay board. All units had Tasmota. The Smart Plugs units shipped from California same day and arrived in 3 days. Also ordered an 8 Channel Relay board that shipped safe day from China and arrived at my door in 10 days via Air Freight from China with complete shipping tracking. I was really impressed with their support. BTW the smart plug units have energy monitoring build in. I'll be buying more.
I have ordered some Athom bulbs and have been happy with them so far. Nice to have products you can power up, connect and use without the project work before you can use them. I've been swapping out Tuya-based bulbs won't Tuyaconvert. My experience has been with Aliexpress, with delivery taking 3ish weeks to Canada.
Thanks. I was watching these for a few months now and never knew what to think of them. Unfortunately to my country they have hefty shipping fee that doubles the price but who know some day this might get fixed. Most other brand have free shipping making them half price.
Right. But they sell it as a US sized switch and it does fit a 1 gang box. Confuses people. Walk into a hardware store and ask for a 4 gang face plate and you are getting a pretty wide plate.
Thanks for the video... I like the LUMENS listed ... I have yet to find and wi-fi bulb that gets the Wife approval because there all to dim. Wow the RGB+Warm+Cold have 1400 lumens output.
Yep. Same issue. These were pretty bright compared to some others. Comparison at the end. I did compare it to an incandescent 60w as well. Pretty close.
90c wire has an 18A ampacity, so their wire size is fine. I suspect the 15a rating and 20a relay is just so their device will be reliable and safe in the long term. As you inherently understand, the device should not be used long term at the upper spec of what the components are rated for. They've already built that margin in so their device should be safe and reliable when used at that upper spec limit (assuming the other quality and manufacturing controls are there)
@@greggotcher9336 The plastic defuser pops out, may have to bend the plastic rim back to make a gap to do so. Once open can you let us know if they are still using the esp8266 chip? Rumor is they have switched to a different MCU.
@@digiblurDIY So are there currently any rgbcw recessed down lights that can have tasmota flashed to them? I have finally seen the light and would like to go all in on tasmota. I really like the grouping feature and think that would be extremely useful.
This was my first Tasmota experience. I can not get the 2 button light switch to work with Alexa. It will not discover on Phillips hue so all I get is relay 1 on Wemo. Still learning.
@@digiblurDIY I have a RB Pi3 and I am having Mqtt install issues. I did get to flash Sonoff basic with 3 relays that show up HA a 3 lights on Alexa . Just want to use 2 button wall to turn on relay 2. works fine on HTTP. My other option is to use API Rest command
Note: For the 15w bulb (and perhaps other Athom products), an attempt to upgrade Tasmota via the OTA option of the firmware will brick these bulbs. Without an available hard reset (7x power reset doesn't work), or any header pins, the only chance at saving these bulbs is complete disassembly and direct soldering to the board for a serial reflash. Boo.
I have been able to do OTA upgrades on them without any issues. I know when they first came out last year or so they had some issues with 2m bin files but they fixed that way back
I haven't had issues with them. A few people have reported that they had to use their customer service and were happy with the results as well which is good.
@@digiblurDIY some how while working with ESPhome the OTA password got hosed and now even though the device is online I can not load new yamls OTA. So decided the only way to overwrite the existing yaml file was to create a binary and upload it manually as in via the com port. The only way that can be done is to open the plug to attach the adaptor and flash the binary created in ESPhome.
Do you have some put with Athom to get some documentation. I have a Athom 8Ch Relay that is supposed to come pre-eflashed to do HomeKit and HomeAssistant MQTT. Zero instructions in the box, Zero instructions on their website. 3 hours later of trial and error I got it talking to HomeAssitant via a HomeKit integration. But in spite of the devices local log file saying that MQTT is connected and working HA can not discover the thing and it is NOT generating any MQTT traffic. Any thoughts?
@@digiblurDIY Not sure, As I mentioned, Zero documentation other than a little price of paper that explains how to connect to homekit. Which ironically is not needed, homekit installation is easy and straight forward. ESPHome does not see it. So Tasmota by process of elimination? The box says it is "MQTT and HomeAssistant" ready.
Can these Athom plugs be flashed via com port on my windows machine. I seem to have lost the OTA password for the device, It is still functioning but can not update the yaml via ESPhome.
Probably not. I have said it a few times in places.. Those new esphome security features do more to lock people out of their devices than actually stop something bad from taking over the devices. You'd need to desolder the electrical plugs to get to the pins most likely.
That's usually the white channels unfortunately. Color is less given the spectrum and the number of LEDs used. I can't say I recall a bulb that was equal.
I bought some Athom bulbs and I cannot figure out how to make them change colors continuously. My end goal is to get the to work in xlights with my holiday lights show, but I can't even get them to alternate colors hahaha
The sponsor and I think your review of the ground is off. unless you live in an 1800 house or high rise house in New York, no one wiring now a days using metal boxes anymore while building a single family house anymore. I can speak for FL and even if you still have metal boxes you will switch them out for Plastic electrical box. So having metal tab of the screw tab is not needed because metal on plastic boxes is not conductive. Next, On the PCB, the entire area on the PCB not use electrical line is use for grounding so when you say the earth is not going to anything is doing injustice to the maker of these products.
No sponsor. I stopped doing that a good while back. Metal boxes are still a thing in some areas as is conduit. Metal face plates are still being used as well which is why even cheap dumb switches come with ground. No injustice here, call it like I see it. You don't need to connect the grounds if it offends you. Snip it off the back and you don't have to deal with it. It's your switch, make it yours. Doesn't matter with this one anyways.
@@digiblurDIY Unless its a commercial building, houses now a days does not requires or use metal boxes so having the metal tabs is not a big deal or will be use. Next..... to say the grounding wire on the PCB goes no where is where I say was the injustice to the maker. Cause those of us who build PCB knows unused area on a PBC board is all use for grounding.
@@cycleboi re-read my POST: as I said I can speak for FLORIDA I did not say for the entire USA nor the rest world. Try install one of these light switches into a metal box which is why if some has metal boxes they will swap the metal boxes out for Plastic boxes. Now address the Ground wire on the PCB seem to lead to no where since you want to chime in.
I use and recommend Athom products, easy as described in the video and great cost/benefit
Thanks, was going to kit out my entire house with Sonoff.
After watching your first video on Athom products ordered 2ea of the Athom Smart Plugs as well as an 8 Channel Relay board. All units had Tasmota. The Smart Plugs units shipped from California same day and arrived in 3 days. Also ordered an 8 Channel Relay board that shipped safe day from China and arrived at my door in 10 days via Air Freight from China with complete shipping tracking.
I was really impressed with their support. BTW the smart plug units have energy monitoring build in.
I'll be buying more.
Nice to hear of the shipping times.
I have ordered some Athom bulbs and have been happy with them so far. Nice to have products you can power up, connect and use without the project work before you can use them. I've been swapping out Tuya-based bulbs won't Tuyaconvert.
My experience has been with Aliexpress, with delivery taking 3ish weeks to Canada.
I really like the fact a company has taken tuya and sonoff etc devices and put tasmota on them. I think athom are awesome for doing this!😊😊
Totally agree!
Right. Have some bulbs from AliExpress ordered. Preflashed. Great. Works.
Welcome FPV folks! So much cross over in hardware between home automation and FPV. Makes it easy to go back and forth.
Thanks. I was watching these for a few months now and never knew what to think of them. Unfortunately to my country they have hefty shipping fee that doubles the price but who know some day this might get fixed. Most other brand have free shipping making them half price.
I highly recommend taping up those screws. My fingers have touched them on the bench inadvertently :)
got these already .. and love it!
The E27 light bulb can be used well in Europe, Asia and Africa. Only in the UK do they use a different socket.
i already have a bunch of this devices, is handy
The last four gang light switch is a standard Australian wall plate size for 1 to 4 switches.
Right. But they sell it as a US sized switch and it does fit a 1 gang box. Confuses people. Walk into a hardware store and ask for a 4 gang face plate and you are getting a pretty wide plate.
the 4 gang button switch is in an Australian format, and would fit straight into a standard wall box here.
Seen those before. Definitely odd they try to sell as North American style though.
One more thing love to see a 850-1000 lumen in the smaller package e26 bulb. 600lm not always bright enough.
Totally agree but I was pleasantly surprised to see it hang on with the previous winner of a few comparisons, the Lohas,
purchased 5 globes and 2 power outlets 2.5 weeks delivery to down under.
Nice!!
@@digiblurDIY unfortunately power outlets do not connect along with the Tb15 RGB-CW
attempting to gain access to the chip and fix connection issue.
Thanks Travis. Like your shirt. 😁
It definitely caught my eye and I knew I had to have it!
Thanks for the video... I like the LUMENS listed ... I have yet to find and wi-fi bulb that gets the Wife approval because there all to dim. Wow the RGB+Warm+Cold have 1400 lumens output.
Yep. Same issue. These were pretty bright compared to some others. Comparison at the end. I did compare it to an incandescent 60w as well. Pretty close.
Love it!! Thanks
90c wire has an 18A ampacity, so their wire size is fine. I suspect the 15a rating and 20a relay is just so their device will be reliable and safe in the long term. As you inherently understand, the device should not be used long term at the upper spec of what the components are rated for. They've already built that margin in so their device should be safe and reliable when used at that upper spec limit (assuming the other quality and manufacturing controls are there)
I'm sure it is fine, I was just comparing it to other switches of this same realm in things I've seen.
Viva da revolution !
Indeed! So many full circle things.
I would love to see a 4 inch and 6 inch recessed downlight (rgbcw) similar to the zemismart lights.
Yes! Those would be great. I have several of the 4 inch zemismart ones with my92x1 drivers. So nice. ESP32 based 5 channel ones would be amazing.
@@digiblurDIY I just got one of the 4 inch zemismart lights to play with. Can you get them open to flash without destroying them?
@@greggotcher9336 The plastic defuser pops out, may have to bend the plastic rim back to make a gap to do so. Once open can you let us know if they are still using the esp8266 chip? Rumor is they have switched to a different MCU.
Last ones I saw they swapped to Beken and don't have a module at all so it would be hard to swap. They do make some Zigbee ones as well.
@@digiblurDIY So are there currently any rgbcw recessed down lights that can have tasmota flashed to them? I have finally seen the light and would like to go all in on tasmota. I really like the grouping feature and think that would be extremely useful.
Wish those GU10 bulbs were brighter. Listed at 300 lumens, my Hue ones are listed at 400 lumens. Still not bright enough for where I want them
Yeah the GU10 is a neat bulb but just not a lot of room there for them to be super bright so I get it.
I wait for them make a shutter/curtain switch
you might be able to adapt some others depending on your controls needed.
This was my first Tasmota experience. I can not get the 2 button light switch to work with Alexa. It will not discover on Phillips hue so all I get is relay 1 on Wemo. Still learning.
Did you add them to home assistant?
@@digiblurDIY I have a RB Pi3 and I am having Mqtt install issues. I did get to flash Sonoff basic with 3 relays that show up HA a 3 lights on Alexa . Just want to use 2 button wall to turn on relay 2. works fine on HTTP. My other option is to use API Rest command
this might look a stupid question, but buttons on the touch switch works without wifi? (like a regular switch in case of internet fall down)
Yes.
Hi, do you know the dimentions of the GU10 bulb?
It says 50mm on the ali listing but 60mm on their website - and my fitting only takes a GU10
I don't have the bulb anymore to measure it. Athom support might be able to help.
Note: For the 15w bulb (and perhaps other Athom products), an attempt to upgrade Tasmota via the OTA option of the firmware will brick these bulbs. Without an available hard reset (7x power reset doesn't work), or any header pins, the only chance at saving these bulbs is complete disassembly and direct soldering to the board for a serial reflash. Boo.
I have been able to do OTA upgrades on them without any issues. I know when they first came out last year or so they had some issues with 2m bin files but they fixed that way back
any updates on these? still working ok? i really like the idea of devices that come out of the box with local control and don't require apps!
I haven't had issues with them. A few people have reported that they had to use their customer service and were happy with the results as well which is good.
Do you know of a video showing how to open and flash the Athom plug with ESPhome?
Why would you open it? It has Tasmota on it already, you just push your ESPHome bin via the web GUI.
@@digiblurDIY some how while working with ESPhome the OTA password got hosed and now even though the device is online I can not load new yamls OTA. So decided the only way to overwrite the existing yaml file was to create a binary and upload it manually as in via the com port. The only way that can be done is to open the plug to attach the adaptor and flash the binary created in ESPhome.
Do you have some put with Athom to get some documentation. I have a Athom 8Ch Relay that is supposed to come pre-eflashed to do HomeKit and HomeAssistant MQTT. Zero instructions in the box, Zero instructions on their website. 3 hours later of trial and error I got it talking to HomeAssitant via a HomeKit integration. But in spite of the devices local log file saying that MQTT is connected and working HA can not discover the thing and it is NOT generating any MQTT traffic.
Any thoughts?
Is it Tasmota or ESPHome?
@@digiblurDIY Not sure, As I mentioned, Zero documentation other than a little price of paper that explains how to connect to homekit. Which ironically is not needed, homekit installation is easy and straight forward. ESPHome does not see it. So Tasmota by process of elimination? The box says it is "MQTT and HomeAssistant" ready.
Can these Athom plugs be flashed via com port on my windows machine. I seem to have lost the OTA password for the device, It is still functioning but can not update the yaml via ESPhome.
Probably not. I have said it a few times in places.. Those new esphome security features do more to lock people out of their devices than actually stop something bad from taking over the devices.
You'd need to desolder the electrical plugs to get to the pins most likely.
The 1400 lumens of the bigger bulb, are they for White, RGB, or both ?
That's usually the white channels unfortunately. Color is less given the spectrum and the number of LEDs used. I can't say I recall a bulb that was equal.
Drives me nuts that they call them two, three and four gang....
Hi work with Homekit?
They do have some homekit versions if you don't want to do Home Assistant
I bought some Athom bulbs and I cannot figure out how to make them change colors continuously. My end goal is to get the to work in xlights with my holiday lights show, but I can't even get them to alternate colors hahaha
You would probably need to send over a firmware that supports that?
@@digiblurDIY Yeah I have some homework to do. lol I have no idea how to do that or what firmware I'm looking for or where to find it lol
Wled maybe?
@@digiblurDIY If I flash WLED to it, will it be hard to get back to tasmota if I screw it up? lol
I would test all processes and procedures on a nodemcu, Wemos d1 mini or something similar like that first.
The sponsor and I think your review of the ground is off.
unless you live in an 1800 house or high rise house in New York, no one wiring now a days using metal boxes anymore while building a single family house anymore. I can speak for FL and even if you still have metal boxes you will switch them out for Plastic electrical box. So having metal tab of the screw tab is not needed because metal on plastic boxes is not conductive.
Next, On the PCB, the entire area on the PCB not use electrical line is use for grounding so when you say the earth is not going to anything is doing injustice to the maker of these products.
No sponsor. I stopped doing that a good while back.
Metal boxes are still a thing in some areas as is conduit. Metal face plates are still being used as well which is why even cheap dumb switches come with ground.
No injustice here, call it like I see it.
You don't need to connect the grounds if it offends you. Snip it off the back and you don't have to deal with it. It's your switch, make it yours. Doesn't matter with this one anyways.
@@digiblurDIY Unless its a commercial building, houses now a days does not requires or use metal boxes so having the metal tabs is not a big deal or will be use.
Next..... to say the grounding wire on the PCB goes no where is where I say was the injustice to the maker. Cause those of us who build PCB knows unused area on a PBC board is all use for grounding.
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@@roystervi Metal boxes are used for residential work in Chicago (and most, if not all, of Cook County for that matter) since conduit is required.
@@cycleboi re-read my POST: as I said I can speak for FLORIDA I did not say for the entire USA nor the rest world. Try install one of these light switches into a metal box which is why if some has metal boxes they will swap the metal boxes out for Plastic boxes. Now address the Ground wire on the PCB seem to lead to no where since you want to chime in.