# homeassistant-beken

- a simple homeassistant plugin that allows the control of a bulb that goes by
	many names:
	- Shada Led's light
	- iLedBulb
	- Beken LED
- [here's](https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/BEKEN_iLedBlub) the bluetooth protocol
	definition.
- sort of stable
- does require manual bluetooth pairing using `bluetoothctl` (or similar) on
  the device running homeassistant

> The following command was in a separate file, I don't remember if it was a
> temporary fix or is still required: `sudo setcap
> 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip'
> venv/lib/python..../site-packages/bluepy/bluepy-helper`