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How to Free GE Full Color Dimmable Smart Bulb with TLSR8258 from GE App Control?

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  • #1 21115085
    omniron
    Level 10  
    GE Full Color Dimmable Smart Bulb with TLSR8258.

    These nice bright and light and quite efficient Smart Bulbs come with a horrible app.
    Must free the from GE's junk zombie control.

    Has anybody worked with TLSR8258?
    That's what's inside these really easy to open bulbs.

    I had watched a few smartbulb crackings, horrible I thought.
    I had prepared for a tough twist and crack and et rid of all that silicone junk session.
    But these have just a bit of silicone where the white plastic ball touches the base.
    The bottom center push-pin came out easily.
    It took maybe 2 minutes (mostly gathering the tools) to get them as you can see.

    But as easy as dissasembly was, freeing it softwarewise seems to be a problem.

    Unless somebody here succeeded already?

    Opened GE smart bulb module with visible internal components. Close-up of a disassembled circuit board from a GE smart bulb, showing electronic components and TLSR8258 label. Close-up of a circuit board with electronic components on a green PCB. Assembled circuitry of a smart bulb showing capacitors and TLSR8258 chip. Close-up of an electronic circuit board with components, including capacitors and ICs, on a white background. Close-up of a TLSR8258 chip on a printed circuit board. Disassembled GE smart bulb showing internal components.
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  • #2 21115288
    speedy9
    Helpful for users
    @p.kaczmarek2 maybe they could extend OpenBeken to support this hardware :) Xiaomi also seems to do on TLSR8258.
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  • #3 21115341
    insmod
    Level 23  

    TLSR825x is a Zigbee/Bluetooth chip. If it has Zigbee firmware installed, then just connect it to the hub. If Bluetooth, then I don't know. I know that Home Assistant supports many Bluetooth LED types, so yours might be supported. As for custom ROM, I haven't seen one for LED. There are several for temp/humidity sensors, look for pvvx on GitHub.
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