Phillips EasySmart Instant Fit LED T8 Bulbs

[LizaFLizard]

Has anyone connected these the ST? Looks like they are Zigbee
https://www.amazon.com/Philips-466482-EasySmart-Replacing-Fluorescents/dp/B076JF4N1W/ref=sr_1_2?

[jkp]

It is not a Philips hue, it is a plain Philips bulb.

[JDRoberts]

@LizaFLizard

Has anyone connected these the ST? Looks like they are Zigbee
Amazon.com?

EasySmart is a new RF system from Phillips based on zigbee 3.0. However, at the present time it is not compatible with either the hue bridge or with SmartThings.

If smartthings ever upgrade to supports zigbee 3.0, there’s a chance they would work, but there haven’t been any announcements about that and definitely no timeline.

So for now, they only work with their own system.

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FAQ: Zigbee Application Profiles, or why not all zigbee devices work with SmartThings

Zigbee is always zigbee, but the standard allows for different "profiles,"including manufacturer proprietary ones. [image] These are not all able to communicate with each other, they don’t even use the same addressing schemes. SmartThings uses the Zigbee Home Automation profile (ZHA 1.2) and part of the Zigbee 3.0 profile. Devices using other zigbee profiles may be able to join to the network, but their communications may not be understood, or they may frequently drop off because they don’t receive a handshake message they are expecting. There a lot of different ways to explain this, but I think one of the easiest is to think of zigbee as a post office and the different profiles as different languages. The outside envelope for different messages may look similar, have a specific format…

Philips has made an official statement that they hope to make the hue bridge compatible with zigbee 3.0 devices in the first half of 2018. If they succeed in that, you should be able to add the easysmart devices to the hue bridge and then take advantage of that integration with SmartThings, but again we aren’t there yet.

Zigbee 3.0 support in Hue ecosystem - Philips Hue Developer Program

[daven]

FWIW I just changed out 12 T8’s with LED ones that require no ballast. They are about 12.00 USD.
I just removed my old bulbs, cut out the ballast and wired hot to one tombstone and neutral to the other. The 4 fixtures were already controlled by an ST switch so all done.