Hi everyone. I'm doing a project for university and with my university colleague i want to find a way to connect arduino with a cheaper light bulb (the classic with app and connectable with Alexa/Google assistant). I think the best way to do that is using a WIFI module, but i don't know how to match them. Someone could help me please?
We need to know what a “cheaper light bulb” is .
Do you mean a filament bulb ?
What voltage and wattage ?
What research have you done thus far ?
Did you want Alexa to control it ?
There is a lot google will find you about dimming bulbs , interfacing to Alexa and so on
No, i mean a WIFI bulb, like this:
Light Bulb - Amazon
Seeing on internet, i found a lot of tutorial based on a filament bulb, but i want to interface with the WI-FI version
I don’t know how to do this but …..I would research the following :
You need to look at cloud Arduino , there is examples for using Alexa using this .
Google Alexa and Arduino code
Or if you don’t want to go that way , best advice is google - you might find some code to spoof the bulb into thinking it’s receiving commands from some existing commercial device .
I don't want to pass through Alexa or Google, so i will try to find that code... thank you.
About Arduino, the idea is to use a WIFI module and just send a signal to turn on or turn off this bulb.
I found Tuya, but i don't know how it effectively works. Could someone help me?
The same as the other bulb ! See my previous post.
You have to find that code or the commands or you’ll be stuck (unless someone here has done it ).
Have a look around there are some smart devices based on the 8266 which would have a better chance of being workable .
Have a look at Blynk too
And here …Click me
Sorry, but i don't understand. All the video i found are based on the idea to connect the bulb physically with the arduino. What i want is to send the message via WIFI. You said to search the codes or commands, but i don't have idea of what codes nor in which way. The best "solution" i found was to connect arduino with IFTTT.
Can i ask you what do you mean with "8266"?
Lets see...you are university student and can't work out how to Google "8266"..??
It's ESP8266, a type of microcontroller.
Perhaps look around on these sites for some basic tutorials.
Example...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao5XcORsYxA
Point being, some here could spend ages trying to get your understanding, whereas a couple of videos will assist you in a short time.
If you get stuck, by all means return and ask about specifics.
Hi,
Welcome to the forum.
Can you please tell us your electronics, programming, arduino, hardware experience?
What resources has the University got?
Have you spoken their IT department or the part of the University that teaches IT?
Tom... 
See ESP32-C3 Smart Bulb - Vont Color Pro w/ TASMOTA - YouTube
Soon, you will be able to log on to your smart light bulb and surf the web.
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Hi Tom, i have an ARDUINO UNO with a lot of gadget taken from amazon:
Arduino UNO - Amazon
I have some knowledge about Java language, so i use ARDUINO IDE for programming it.
The bad part is that i have never used Arduino before..
About the university, i will try to contact someone who can help me because the professor of the course looks not so prepared..
Thank you Tom!
In this video the guy "overcome" the app and control directly the bulb, but i don't need it!
What i'm trying to do is to connect Arduino with the bulb via WIFI and then send the message to turn on/off the light when a threshold is reached.
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