Requirements

Starting with AiLight is pretty easy, and you only need a couple of items (and a bit of spare time)

Hardware

• An Ai-Thinker RGBW LED bulb (or equivalent). These are available from Amazon, eBay or AliExpress and can carry different names. An easy way to find them is to do an online search for the Tuya Smart App, or search on these shopping sites using the keyword 'M1636'. In addition, it is good to check if the light uses the ESP8266 MCU (not always given in the product descriptions though)
• An USB/UART FTDI (or equivalent) adapter.
• [Optional] An AiLight Jig. If you feel your soldering skills are not up to par, I have designed a special jig that saves you considerable time. You can find more details here: AiLight Jig

Software

To build and upload AiLight you need to have PlatformIO installed on your environment. Optionally, you need to install NodeJS in case you would like to build the Web UI yourself.

Please check their respective websites for installation instructions.