Looking for Some Budget Garden Lighting for an HA Noob

brettule on 10/06/2025 - 18:58

I've been playing with Home Assistant for a couple of months, enough to get my heating working and a few lights sorted. Nothing too fancy. I want to set up 3 or 4 low voltage lights in my small garden to cast upwards through my fruit trees with a warm cosy light. My bike shed has mains power and I'm happy to run a wee trench to power them, but I'm a bit lost on what to buy. I want a kit, that it's easy enough to connect to HA but isn't super expensive, $100 or $200 I think. My HA is ZigBee capable but I don't have any devices using it yet, everything is just regular wifi. It would be nice to adjust the brightness of the lights, I don't really care about RGB colours but if it has that feature then so be it. Do you have any recommendations and links?

Cheers

Electrical & Electronics Garden Light Home Automation

Comments

  • Downvoter on 10/06/2025 - 19:08
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    I’ve got this to light 5 x 3M high Heliconias against my fence line. Good old solar.

    https://www.bunnings.com.au/gardenglo-400lm-solar-powered-4-…

    • brettule on 11/06/2025 - 07:58

      Home Assistant compatible please.

  • Hybroid on 10/06/2025 - 20:03

    Wait for this to drop to $39 again, plug whatever lights you want into it, control via HomeKit.

    https://www.amazon.com.au/meross-Waterproof-Compatible-Assis…

    • toecutter69 on 10/06/2025 - 21:11
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      https://github.com/krahabb/meross_lan/issues/526#issuecommen…

      I saw people having issues with his device. Anyone got it working on home assistant?

      • raun on 10/06/2025 - 21:43
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        I have this connected to my HA setup and haven't had any problems with it

    • brettule on 11/06/2025 - 08:02
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      Not quite what I want. I don't want to run 240v under the lawn to the LED lights, I'm looking for a low voltage 12v or 24v solution. Also, I don't just want to turn them on and off, I want to be able to control the brightness of the LED's. I'm thinking more of a kit that has a 240v transformer which is smart enough to connect to HA and adjust the brightness of the string of lights connected to it.

      • websterp on 11/06/2025 - 08:55

        Well if you want individual lighting control, low voltage and has to be relatively cheap then check out Tuya/Smartlife based garden lights from Aliexpress or Brilliant/Arlec/Mirabella/Kogan branded smart garden lights from Bunnings or online stores as they all have Tuya based controllers. Then use Tuya Integration to connect to HA or if you have the tools and skills you can always flash Tasmota or esphome and enable local control to eliminate the need of Tuya cloud.

        • brettule on 11/06/2025 - 09:01
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          I don't require individual control, but I do want to control brightness of them all. I thought the Tuya controlled lights might be good, thanks. Can you recommend any particular product(s) that work well?

          • websterp on 11/06/2025 - 09:30

            @brettule: Check out the likes of Brilliant/Arlec/Mirabella at Bunnings. Price may be a bit higher than Aliexpress but you get a much better Warranty and no questions asked returns.

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