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Supported color modes: color_temp, xy

Home Assistant Device information:

TRADFRI bulb E14 CWS globe 806lm

by IKEA of Sweden

Connected via HA Connect ZBT-1

Firmware: 0x01000038

Measured with an old school non-LED light bulb (40W) as dummy load.

The consumption spikes at low brightness values (bri=1) are actually measured correctly.

It seems the IKEA bulbs of that series have limited colors. Meaning they cannot display certain BRI/HUE/SAT combinations. The result is unpredictable. Most of the time, if it cannot display the combination, the light is off and consumes just a bit more than the standby consumption. At the beginning of the measure script (bri=1) the bulb is at full brightness though it shouldn't be. But this explains the peak consumption at the low end of the chart.

I am certain nobody will ever turn this bulb to any of the problematic values so it really doesn’t matter.

I tried to start measuring at different brightness values by setting MIN_BRIGHTNESS but as you can see in graphs there are still high consumption values at bri=10.

I would leave the measurement as it is. This bulb really consumes more power at those values.

If there is a new firmware for the bulb I can measure it again. But I think IKEA will rather release a different model.

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Well, now if I look at the graphs again: the color_temp graph looks OK. But the HS graph could use a measurement between 1 and 33.

Let me run one more measurement at brightness 15.

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Added measurements for bri=15 to the HS file.

@LtKowalski LtKowalski marked this pull request as ready for review November 27, 2025 19:35
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@LtKowalski Thanks so much for your efforts to get everything right. Everything looks great to me, so let's get it merged.

@bramstroker bramstroker merged commit f7df333 into bramstroker:master Nov 28, 2025
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@bramstroker Thanks for your guidance to get proper measurements!

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