BEGA joins Works with Home Assistant
Miranda Bishop
How do you more or less double the number of Works with Home Assistant-certified devices available to our community? Have BEGA join the program! This German firm has spent more than 75 years designing a wide range of architectural lighting that sets the industry standard: and now they’re bringing that expertise to your smart home.
Bright BEGA-nnings
If you haven’t heard of BEGA before, you may have admired their work without realizing it. That’s because they produce the kind of beautifully engineered fixtures you see gracing the facades of fancy hotels, elegant public buildings, and stylish modern homes worldwide. They’re probably better known for this kind of work than for smart home tech, which is precisely what makes their joining the Works with Home Assistant program so exciting.
Because BEGA aren’t just dipping a toe in: they’re bringing what’s almost certainly the largest single addition of certified devices we’ve ever had in one go: enough to very nearly double the number of certified products in the program! And it’s not just the volume that impresses. BEGA Smart – their Zigbee-powered smart lighting system – is flexible, expandable, and designed to work entirely offline, with no internet connection required.
BEGA: putting the smart into smart home lighting.
"With BEGA Smart, we aim to combine high-quality architectural lighting with intelligent control. Integrating with Home Assistant allows us to bring our lighting solutions into an open and flexible smart home ecosystem that many of our customers already value. By doing so, we enhance comfort, safety, and energy efficiency while enabling new ways to experience light. We're excited to support the community and be part of this ecosystem."
- Heinrich Gantenbrink, Managing Partner at BEGABeyond beautiful design
BEGA’s premium positioning isn’t only about aesthetics. Their commitment to repairability also aligns well with the Open Home Foundation’s sustainability principles. Rather than treating a luminaire as a disposable unit, BEGA designs the majority of their components to be replaceable. Crack a glass panel? You can order that specific spare via their website’s search function and replace it, rather than throwing out the whole fixture.
This also makes BEGA an interesting choice if you’re thinking about illuminating your outdoor spaces. We have relatively few outdoor lighting options in the program, and BEGA fills that gap in style – just in time if you’re looking to get your garden or terrace ready for summer 😎.
Let there (Zig)bee light
We mentioned BEGA Smart runs on Zigbee, but if that’s new to you, here’s what it means. Zigbee is basically a short-range wireless communication standard: like Wi-Fi, but designed specifically for smart home devices. Unlike Wi-Fi however, it’s an open standard, so isn’t run by one specific company, and connects directly to Home Assistant without needing a router or internet connection. It’s also a mesh protocol, which means the more devices you add to your network, the stronger and more reliable it gets – handy for lighting that’s spread across your home and garden.
And on that subject, if you want to dim the patio lights from your sofa, or check they’re off while you’re away, Home Assistant Cloud can help – providing secure remote access wherever you are (your subscription helps fund the Works with Home Assistant program too!).
The path to enlightenment, with BEGA devices.
Devices
As with every Works with Home Assistant partner, our in-house team has thoroughly tested BEGA’s devices to make sure they meet our core requirements: local control, privacy, and long-term sustainability.
Because the list of certified BEGA devices is so long, we’ve included a condensed list below (there’s not enough room for them all here without subjecting you to a loooonnnnnng scroll! 😄). Bear in mind, when you browse BEGA’s website, look for devices marked as BEGA Smart. This tells you the item is Zigbee enabled and Works with Home Assistant certified. Worth knowing, since each luminaire also comes in other variants, such as DALI or non-smart versions, which are not certified under the program.
BEGA Smart covers a swathe of indoor and outdoor luminaires, with wall or ceiling mounted options, as well as freestanding garden path lighting to illuminate those balmy summer evenings.
- BEGA Smart Outdoor Ceiling luminaire (two variants)
- BEGA Smart Indoor Ceiling luminaire (nine variants)
- BEGA Smart Wall Outdoor Luminaire (10 variants)
- BEGA Smart Outdoor Garden and pathway luminaire (79 variants)
- BEGA Smart Indoor Ceiling and wall luminaire (two variants)
- BEGA Smart Indoor table lamp (three variants)
- BEGA Smart Outdoor Ceiling and wall luminaire (35 variants)
- BEGA Smart Outdoor PRIMA wall luminaire (eight variants)
- BEGA Smart Outdoor PRIMA ceiling and wall luminaire (eight variants)
- BEGA Smart Outdoor PRIMA ceiling mounted downlight (eight variants)
For the full list of certified BEGA devices, see our filtered device list.
Dazzled by choice
With BEGA on board, Home Assistant users have more choice than ever when it comes to quality lighting, inside and out. Ready to explore the full range? Head over to our certified device list to be illuminated about everything that’s been approved from BEGA and beyond. The future of your smart home is looking bright 💡.
FAQs
If I have a device that is not listed under “Works with Home Assistant” does this mean it’s not supported?
No! It just means that it hasn’t gone through a testing schedule with our team or doesn’t fit the requirements of the program. It might function perfectly well but be added to the testing schedule later down the road, or it might work under a different connectivity type that we don’t currently test under the program.
OK, so what’s the point of the Works with program?
It highlights the devices we know work well with Home Assistant and the brands that make a long-term commitment to keeping support for these devices going. The certification agreement specifies that the devices must have the functionality you would expect within Home Assistant, operate locally without the need for cloud and that they will continue to do so long-term.
How were these devices tested?
All devices in this list were tested using a standard Home Assistant Green Hub with the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 and with our Zigbee integration (ZHA). If you have another hub/antenna setup/integration that’s not a problem, but we test against these as they are the most effective way for our team to certify within our ecosystem.
Will you be adding more BEGA devices to the program?
Why not! We’re thrilled to foster a close relationship with the team at BEGA to work together on any upcoming releases or add in further products that are not yet listed here.