We really need a Geeni/ Mercury binding

[rpwong (Russ)]

@rlkoshak

But it does appear that these bulbs may be running on ESPs which means they might be re-flashable with an alternative firmware like Tasmota or ESPEasy. Once you do that the bulb will talk HTTP or MQTT which OH already supports quite nicely.

Yep, there are lots of Tasmota templates for Geeni and Merkury devices. They might even be Tuya-based, in which case they can easily be flashed using a Raspberry Pi.

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