New plugin for Milight - pimatic-milight-reloaded

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pimatic-milight-reloaded

I have created a new plugin for Milight which is the result of my ongoing efforts to provide better support for Milight with pimatic.

It has the following features:

• Support for the new Milight controller iBox1 and iBox2, including auto-discovery
• Improved auto-discovery supporting multi-homed hosts
• Support for bridge light of the iBox2 controller
• Milight color action to control color of MilightRGBWZone, MilightBridgeLight, and MilightFullColorZone.
  Note, the action currently only changes the hue value of the lights. Brightness control can be added,
  but unfortunately it is not possible to control saturation which limits the color rendition, drastically
• Implemented basic support for V6 full color bulbs (color temperature and saturation control missing to date)
• Implemented actions to control color temperature and brightness for MilightWWCWZone

The next steps are as follows:

• Improve the support for the new full color bulbs by adding the missing features, i.e. color temperature and saturation control
• Provide a custom UI control
• Provide more actions for other stuff like effect mode control and advanced dimming with fading

Contributions

Contributions to the project are welcome. You can simply fork the project and create a pull request with your contribution to start with. If you like this plugin, please consider ★ starring the project on github.

Hi,
what i’m missing is an option to set the color by rule
e.g. variable = #9400D3
if … then set milightRGBW.color to variable

br
Mike

@merphun Yes, I’ll add this soon.

Hi,
thanks. I also have found that simultan use of pimatic-led-light and milight-reloaded will lead to an error of pimatic-led-light and my stripes become unresponsive as long I have both plugins active

br
Mike

@merphun Can you pls let me know what kind of error you get? Thanks!

Hi,
seems is was a hardware problem. Can’t reproduce it. Sorry
Mike

Hi guys!

i´ve bought a milight bridge with 4 milight RGBW bulbs. i can control the bulbs with the Mi-Light Remote app for android.
but i´ve some trouble with pimatc and your plugin. nothing happens

i can see the color control and the brightness, but the color is not changing.

any ideas?

my config:

{
  "id": "milightzone1",
  "class": "MilightRGBWZone",
  "name": "Zone 1",
  "ip": "192.168.0.19",
  "port": 8899,
  "zoneId": 1
},

i´m running pimatic version 0.8

@garnett

• Did you check the pimatic log for error messages?
• Do you have a firewall, e.g. iptables, installed on your Raspi which might be blocking udp outbound traffic?
• Are you sure you’ve picked the right ip address for the bridge? If it’s on DHCP and without a static assignment, there’s a chance its IP address has changed. Try to use 192.168.0.255 in case of doubt
• try to use port 5000
• Try to use zone 0

no error messages, firewall or other i dont know. its stock raspbian. ip address of the bridge is changed to static.

changed zone 1 to 0 in config.
zone 0 is working very well. great!

but in the milight app the bulb is on zone 1.

i will install the other 3 bulbs in the next few days. hope i can control every bulb in a zone…

But your milight bright is in the same network as pimatic is and the milight is not an acces point?

@p4co86
yes, milight bridge and pimatic are in the same network. milight bridge is in STA Mode.

@mwittig

i´ve added the config for MilightWWCWZone, too. ON/OFF is not working in this version?

{
      "id": "milightwwcwzone1",
      "class": "MilightWWCWZone",
      "name": "Zone 1 ON/OFF",
      "ip": "192.168.0.19",
      "port": 8899,
      "zoneId": 1
},

tried zoneid 0, not working…

I ise rgbw with the config you posted above and it woked like a charme

@garnett said in New plugin for Milight - pimatic-milight-reloaded:

i´ve added the config for MilightWWCWZone, too. ON/OFF is not working in this version?

Note, MilightWWCWZone will only work with WW/CW bulbs. These bulbs have different control codes than the RGBW bulbs.

Next thing to try is the following:

• Open a shellon your Raspi Pi where pimatic is installed
• Run the ping command as follows: ping 192.168.0.19

Do you see packets receiving?

If, yes and you have a Windows PC, please download http://www.limitlessled.com/download/LimitlessLEDv5.zip and run the exe. Then enter your IP address in the filed marked red and press “Get Protocol”, please send the result shown to the left of the button.

@mwittig
the tool shows me the same as you in the protocol field.

i think i solved it. the bulb is on zone 3 and not on zone 1 as i thought.
its a little weird. in the app the bulb was on zone 1. whatever, it seems that its okay now.

and i deleted the wwcw device

great plugin! thanks so much! do you know when you release an update with more functions?

@garnett said in New plugin for Milight - pimatic-milight-reloaded:

i think i solved it. the bulb is on zone 3 and not on zone 1 as i thought.

Sorry, I completely overlooked you said it is working on zone 0. It strange however, that the zone is not the same as assigned by the app. I am using Milight 1.9 (release 22.12.2015) on iOS which works fine for me (same zone id as with pimatic).

great plugin! thanks so much! do you know when you release an update with more functions?

Thanks. I’m glad you like it! Please consider ★ starring the project on github.

I am planning to add a color action soon. It’s almost finished. Maybe I can finish this off next weekend.

@mwittig said in New plugin for Milight - pimatic-milight-reloaded:

I am planning to add a color action soon. It’s almost finished. Maybe I can finish this off next weekend.

yeah, would be awesome!

How is it possible to get an On/Off Button for the RGBW zone too? In addition to the color and brightness slider?

@SaxnPaule said in New plugin for Milight - pimatic-milight-reloaded:

How is it possible to get an On/Off Button for the RGBW zone too? In addition to the color and brightness slider?

Not at the moment, I am afraid. I omitted the switch by design to make the UI as minimalistic as possible. However, you can use switch predicates and actions as part of rules.

If I find some time to do it I’ll add the UI switch as an option. So, I’ll regard this as a feature request.

Yes I know.
Unfortunately the floating of the elements isn’t very good on smartphones. Sliders are very small too, so buttons are better to use on a smartphone.

A cool feature would be a custom placement and size of elements, but this is pimatic and not plugin related.

I’m replacing some of my Milight RGB lamps with WWCW bulbs (better warmwhite color for use in the living room). Unfortunately, the pimatic-led-light plugin does not support WWCW bulbs (as far as I know), so I’m very happy that pimatic-milight-reloaded indeed supports them. It’s working great!

One thing I can’t figure out is how to dim the WWCW bulb using rules. I’m using a “movie mode” rule dimming all bulbs to 20%, which is working great with the RGB ones, but it doesn’t seem to work with the WWCW ones. Is it even possible since the control scheme is different (arrows instead of a slider, see “Wohnzimmerlampe” in the picture)? Any advice is greatly appreciated.