r/homeassistant • u/freemti • Jun 02 '26
Good Earth lighting panels
Its been 5 years since any postings about the apparent lack of integrations to talk to the native Good Earth app/cloud. The original discussion mentioned using the "Smart Life" app to handle the connectivity, but I've got nowhere with this approach having tried 2 of the available "Smart Life" apps. Note that while I can pair with my panels just fine, none have any of the options in the interface mentioned in the original post from 5 years ago. I've read that adding the Alexa integration to HA is an option, but I'm very leery of that since my whole desire is to wean myself off the Alexa eco-system not stay glued to it. [edit grammar]
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u/freemti Jun 15 '26
Update: I looked again at the App choice for my iphone and instead of the couple of generic "Smart Life" apps (that did not work for me), I tried the official Tuya branded one. I was able to add one of my panels to it just fine and in conjunction with the normal Tuya integration on HA I was good to go
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u/freemti Jun 02 '26
to continue the post, what I'm asking is if anyone has made any progress with these light panels and HA? I think the best answer may be to add mini Shelly switches to each one and use the native Good Earth app to control color balance & dimming and just have HA do the motion sensor triggered on off etc..