Tech Friday: Fixed my Alexa smart home Sengled lights headache
Posted By RichC on November 14, 2025
If you’re like me and thousands of frustrated smart home users, you’ve probably hit the wall with Sengled bulbs, their Hub and Alexa. For the past six months (and officially since Amazon axed the integration on August 1, 2025), the Sengled Home app error codes with NSURLErrorDomain -1202 — thanks to a flaky SSL certificate on their cloud server (portal.cloud.sengled.com). There was no more voice control, no app linking and crickets from Sengled support — no response to emails.
BUT .. the Zigbee based bulbs are still there and work fine by manually controlling or using the Sengled iPhone app (worthless). Hm … these are basically Zigbee bulbs and they are supported by my newer Echo Hubs and by the Eero Router. Maybe they will work and we can bypass the Sengled app and hub?
Let’s try and perhaps, we don’t need Sengled’s hub, app or cloud account anymore? With a little help from GrokAI, I paired the bulbs …and it worked flawlessly.
So if you have a compatible Echo (4th gen or later, like the Echo Dot 4/5, Echo 4th gen, or Echo Show 3rd gen+), this is the ticket to get back to using those lights again. In my case the over the sink “dimmable” ceiling lights are back working: “Alexa; turn the kitchen lights on and set them to 40%.” 😉
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