Xiaomi Yeelight plugin

Freekwilly

I always loved xiaomi products and I can blindly recommend most of them. I have got two smartphones, dozens of headphones, a bluetooth speaker, action cam…I’m a fanboy Can’t wait to see progress on the plugin!

Maybe I should order some too.
The don’t need a hub?

abmantis

@Freekwilly Nope, no hub needed! Just the app (I think there’s an Yeelight app, and a Xiaomi Home app, both work).
Make sure you choose the right bulbs (wifi or bluetooth).

Freekwilly

Well, I also ordered some now.
Since I’m not really into programming I’m hoping that somebody else is going to develop a pimatic-plugin.

But besides that I’d actually want to know how one would start in developing a plugin?!

I found the documentation about the API on the webpage and everything written there seems comprehensible for me.
Bu I have no idea on how to implement the function of the Yeelight into pimatic/coffee

thost96

@Freekwilly said in Xiaomi Yeelight plugin:

Since I’m not really into programming I’m hoping that somebody else is going to develop a pimatic-plugin.

I’m already on a plugin for this. There is a node module i’m using: https://www.npmjs.com/package/yeelight-wifi
The bluetooth ones get added later. I’m waiting for my yeelight to arrive, so i can test the plugin finally.

Freekwilly

Wow that’s awesome.
So you started writing without having the device on hand?
Will you implement all the cool features such as “sunrise” for the RGB version or are you mainly dealing with the white version for now?
I can’t wait hearing about your progress when your Yee finally arrives

Partovic

Just saw this and thought if it would be possible to create a virtual Philips-Hue bulb in our local network to get it connected natively to our HueBridge?! This would be awesome! So every device could be a Philips Hue bulb!

Partovic

Will have a closer look to “ha-bridge” the next days. This piece of software emulates a Philips Hue bridge which can basically have every virtual device. at least devices that are usable with basic operators like “on”, “off” and “dim”. So every light and thermostat should be possible.

What I have to verify is, what this means for my current setup. The Harmony remote can be connected to just one HueBridge. So I have to remove my real device and replace it with the fake one. Don’t know how that affects my hue wall switch and color scenes.

BUT: With this solution it would be possible to add yeelight as native hue bulb.
ALSO: we can use Amazon Alexa to control our whole system

xCite86

more about the ha-bridge here:

https://github.com/bwssytems/ha-bridge. i’m currently playing around with my pi, alexa and pimatic and it works for me very well

i’ve run them on port 90 and they shoult discover automatic the hue-devices.

with an shell-switch you should be able to control them

{ 
  "id": "light",
  "name": "Lamp",
  "class": "ShellSwitch", 
  "onCommand": "curl -s http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=1&DeviceNum=41",
  "offCommand": "curl -s http://192.168.1.201:3480/data_request?id=action&output_format=json&serviceId=urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1&action=SetTarget&newTargetValue=0&DeviceNum=41"
}

abmantis

For using with alexa, you can also try using fauxmo: https://github.com/n8henrie/fauxmo

mwittig

I have received a Yeelight Wifi bulb yesterday and tried the Yeelight App yesterday which sends every command through the milight cloud. This causes a significant command lag and apparently an overflow if too many commands are sent at a time. This really poor design, imho!

Hopefully, the direct control will do any better. I am also looking into yeelight-wifi which appears to be a good baseline for plugin development. Unfortunately, yeelight-wifi uses “node-ssdp” for discovery which has some issues with multi-homed network configurations and does not work in my setup. I’ll try to use “peer-ssdp” instead.

thost96

@mwittig I also already received mine and i’m testing the plugin. If you enable the developer mode you can controll the yeelight on your local network and didn’t need internet access for it.

I also have seen that node-ssdp has some issue. I’m also trying some other libaries for the yeeligths.

Freekwilly

Just wante to share my experience with the yeelight bulbs.

I ordered two: One RGB version one white bulb.
The RGB bulb is very very cool. Lots of colors and some interesting scenes like sunrise and sunset with the help of the mobile app. Even the white colors are very good and bright. Full reccomendation, superb value for money.

The white bulb doen’t impress me at all. Sadly the light temperature is rather cold and you cannot change it. Just dim it to a tolerable brightness. Would not recommend to buy it. But I’ll use it in the bathroom.

Anything new on the implementation into pimatic?

leader21

hey guys!
just got my yeelight rgbw bulb today.
finally, i got it working with the yeelight app, since the instructions delivered with the bulb were only in chinese. I created an account at www.mi.com, then used the credentials at the app. that worked, but creating an acc out of the yeelight app did not work for me since the announced confirmation mail never arrived.

so far i am surprised by the device. the bulb is very bright and responsive.

just found this on github
https://github.com/kbariotis/yeelight.js

does this help maybe?!

mwittig

@leader21 said in Xiaomi Yeelight plugin:

but creating an acc out of the yeelight app did not work for me since the announced confirmation mail never arrived.

I had also problem with that and tried with a different e-mail addresses (Gmail did not work for me, check spam folder).

so far i am surprised by the device. the bulb is very bright and responsive.

Lucky you, as it it was damn slow for me. Each command is send to the cloud and the device picks it from there.

just found this on github
https://github.com/kbariotis/yeelight.js

Thanks for the pointer. We already have https://www.npmjs.com/package/yeelight-wifi which works for me. You need to set enable the “developer” mode first (settings as part of yeelight app) before the device can be controlled locally.

Partovic

Just got my Color bulb. Successfuly added it to the Yeelight App. But I cannot find the Option for Developer Mode in the lastest Version of the App. Anybody Else ?