ZIgbee dongle? Trying to figure out what I Need to get my lights to work, Any help is appreciated!
My current problem: I bought a set of 4 Sengled color changing lights for my college apratment off facebook marketplace ( was blinded by the 10$ price, did not check anything else). however, come to find out Sengled doesnt exisit anymore and these cloud based lightbulbs are basically just normal lightbulbs.
After some digging i find that its possible to jailbreak the light bulbs and control them without the app. ok, so i tried doing that but was hit with the fact that these arent wifi light bulbs, but zigbee ones.
what the fuck is zigbee bro.
all i want is to be able to control the light colors and brightness via my phone ( or laptop ). i dont need to integrate it into any kind of home assisstant or anything fancy. after some digging, i found it was possible to use python and a Zigbee dongle to do that. i need the zigbee dongle to read and transmit the proper zigbee frequencies i think ( and a flipper zero cant do that due to their lower frequency range)
what exactly does a dongle do? am i right to think that this is a possible fix? what are good dongle recommendations?