![]() ![]() Having told Alexa to “set athom15w to red” only to be told “athom15w doesn’t support that”, I was a tad concerned. I then went to the MQTT and OTHER setup pages respectively to get MQTT and Alexa access. The first thing I then did was to use the WebUI to simply OTA upgrade the firmware to the current Tasmota dev version 9.4.0.4. Once the lamp was running on my WiFi (I named it “athom15w” on the WiFi setup screen) I could access it in my PC browser as “” – that suffix will depend on your router. As usual I told my phone to look for an access point beginning in “tasmota” – it did that and the WiFi is then EASILY set up, pointing the phone firstly to use that access point then the phone browser to look at address 192.168.4.1 The lamp worked out of the box with Tasmota 9.0.0.1 pre-installed. The 15W version of the pre-Tasmota’d lamp finally arrived and it looks like my comments about updating have been noted. ![]() ![]() The Tasmota on my Athom socket was old – v8.5 – I’ve upgraded it to 9.4.0.2 (Leslie) (development) by locally loading the MINIMAL version of Tasmota then going for the full OTA upgrade minutes later. My thanks to sfromis, barbudor and others in the TASMOTA DISCORD channel (under “beginners”). NOT setting the timezone (+2 for Spain) had me going for hours. I needed this and I put in a timezone value so I could use the 16 internal timers in Tasmota (i.e. Meanwhile – as well as the voltageset and other settings I mentioned above (for the smartsocket) – if you want dusk and dawn use, go into the Tasmota console and fill in: Longitude x and latitude y where x and y are your longitude and latitude from Google maps… this info is non-voltatile. While not particularly recommending AliExpress, here is the Athom Store within it. the RGB colour of this lamp however beats the pants off the “AWOW” and quite a few other lamps you will see around. I’d really like to see something with maybe 9w per colour but no doubt that would greatly increase the cost. In common with just about all other RGB lights of this wattage I’d describe the whites as bright but the colours as more “decorative” (not that I’m complaining). With a total power consumption of 7W this gives a decent amount of light out, but as I update this blog, I’m also testing the 15w version – see update further down. AND the whites are good – a nice bright white from cold (6000k) to quite warm (3000K) – and the usual range of full RGB colours. No template to set up – all pre-programmed. I did the same again – pointed the phone to that access point, went to the page at 192.168.4.1 and punched in my normal access point details along with a new name for the lamp (now called athom7w). I asked my phone to go looking for access points and “tasmota_D3FB8D-7053” appeared. I also received in the post the Athom 7W RGBWW E27 lamp – JUST as easy – I plugged the lamp into a handy socket, turned it on and – white light. Anyone interested in calibrating such sockets might wish to look here. I just entered “voltageSet 244” – because, believe it or not, my handy meter says that’s what I’m getting right now here in rural Spain. See above where it says “Console” in the image. As for the voltage reading (below) I can see some calibration coming on if I want to use power monitoring – but that is all described over at Theo Arends’s Tasmota site – Backlog VoltageSet CurrentSet PowerSet If manufacturers were not so keen on pushing their cloud offerings down our throats, it would ALWAYS be this easy. The “.broadband” will vary from router to router. Within seconds, on my PC, at the address “” the new power monitoring socket appeared, ready to go. So what’s new about this? Nothing except that this is the simplest smart-socket setup I’ve ever done – no messing about removing cloud controls, no APP, SIMPLES. I think it’s an esp8266/esp32 limitation. In common with most if not all similarly-programmed devices out there, 5Ghz WiFi is not supported. On that page I entered my normal (2.4Ghz) WiFi access point and password and gave the socket a new “Hostname” – “Athom-1”. If you’ve never used the freely available Tasmota firmware before, this is the standard address for setup. I pointed the phone to that access point and looked at website IP 192.168.4.1 using my phone web browser.
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