Cheap Mi-Light Controller compatible?

SaxnPaule

Hello community,

It seems very cheap. Has anyone have experiences using this device with pimatic? Is anything other necessary for controlling a LED stripe?

leader21

@SaxnPaule
seems to be a common mi light device.
but beware of long delivery time - the vendor is from china

SaxnPaule

Yes, i saw the long delivery time. I’m still waiting for my LED stripes too. But thats no problem for me.

I will order two different WiFi devices. Is the China version compatible to Pimatic and will it work OOTB?

leader21

they should work both. the second one is the wifi370.
i’m having two of these running without issues.

SaxnPaule

Well, I’ll order both and tell how the chinese one does his job.

leader21

well, it’s all from china

SaxnPaule

U know what I mean…

mwittig

i just found this device for controlling RGB LED stripes

Hi. Note, the name of the Milight product is a bit misleading. The “Wireless WiFi Steuermodul LED-Controller Wlan” is just a RGB LED-strip controller supporting a proprietary 2,4 Ghz RF protocol. If you want to control it via Pimatic you’ll also need a “Milight Wifi bridge”, e.g. http://www.amazon.de/Wifi-WLAN-Controller-Milight-Mi-Light/dp/B00L3BNHZU/ref=pd_bxgy_60_img_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=18BKJQWKXMAB8GGV2Z7X or you build your own bridge https://github.com/henryk/openmili which is also supported by pimatic-led-light.

Milight compared to Wifi370 has the following pros/cons

pros:

remote handset available for Milight (if you like)
milight can be combined with RGBW and CW/WW LED Bulbs, Wifi-bridge can control up to 4 zones with multiple devices per zone

cons:

limited color rendition when compared to Wifi370 as Milight has a limited color wheel
two components required for Milight, at least - Wifi 370 is just one box

EDIT: Also, note, there is a Milight RGB-W LED-Strip controller for strips which have RGB plus White LEDs. This may be useful for applications where your need white light which you won’t really get with RGB strips - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2fyCKTColY and http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=17090.0 on the matter.