[Custom component] Integration for Triones/HappyLighting based BLE lights

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Hi!

Just want to share an integration I am working on. I got a cheap light strip from Amazon and am super annoyed by their malfunctioning IR remote and crappy app. Also I cannot use Home Assistant with it.

After some googling, I found out that the BLE protocol is used for a lot of cheap lights and is well documented here.

Decided to make a custom integration for it: GitHub - sysofwan/ha-triones: Home Assistant integration for BLE based Triones/HappyLighting lights

Appreciate your feedback :smiley:

:construction: This integration is still under active development, and may have bugs or breaking changes in the future. It may not be for you if stability is important.

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It doesn’t seem to work with the Happy Lighting Smart LED Flood light. I get the bluetooth address popup when installing the add-on but when I add it, I cannot seem to connect.

Happy to help with any information you need, you might just need to point me in the direction to get it.

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Were you able to finish setup? Is there any error/warning logs? Check in Configuration → Logs.

You can also add the following to configuration.yml to enable debug logs, which will be helpful:

logger:
  default: warn
  logs:
    custom_components.triones: debug
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It doesn’t complete the setup.

I get:

This error originated from a custom integration.

Logger: custom_components.triones
Source: custom_components/triones/triones.py:86
Integration: Triones (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 15:13:43 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 15:13:43

Error getting status: Device with address 93:02:00:00:03:29 was not found.

I have manually typed the BT address using a BLE scanner on my phone.

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Are you saying the BT address was not in the logs initially or you have to enter the BT address during setup (it was not auto discovered)?

I have seen some issues connecting if there is an existing connection to the lights, for example if you are using the app or connected to the lights on a BLE scanner.

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I had to enter the BT address manually during setup.

I didn’t have the app open my phone and but the BT scanner was running to find the address (it had a Connect button on it which I didn’t click). I’ll try close the app and then try connect. Will let you know.

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If it was not auto discovered (the name needs to start with “Triones-” in BLE app), it is also possible that the light is too far from your Home Assistant.

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The above is what is showing in my bluetooth scanner. I closed the app and didn’t have the HappyLighting app open. The light is also right next to my raspberry pi.

Below is the modal dialog I get

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It looks like the light doesn’t start with Triones- but with Triones. I wonder if that is the reason why.

As mentioned before, I am happy to help in anyway if you need any more diagnostics.

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I made an update to the auto discovery to consider names starting with “Triones:”. You can try pulling the changes and see if it works.

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No joy. I think I have the update as I see a field for the Name which wasn’t there before.

Let me see if I can find a way to checking which devices my pi sees.

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I added a debug log to print all devices discovered by your pi. You need to enable debug logs as above. Hope that helps.

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I get the same problem as @mehtadone where it detects the light but when I submit that light I get the same “Unable to connect to Triones”. I also tried skipping that and just plugging in the bluetooth MAC manually and get the same thing.

I didn’t connect their spyware app at all, so this is from unboxing to HA.

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Here are my logs.

2021-11-21 16:17:40 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.triones] Discovered devices: [{'address': 'FF:FF:38:5B:40:65', 'name': 'Triones-FFFF385B4065'}, {'address': '50:32:37:8E:C0:9E', 'name': '50-32-37-8E-C0-9E'}, {'address': '7D:6E:88:67:D6:AC', 'name': '7D-6E-88-67-D6-AC'}, {'address': '13:76:96:07:E7:91', 'name': '13-76-96-07-E7-91'}, {'address': '4D:1D:50:98:F2:0D', 'name': '4D-1D-50-98-F2-0D'}, {'address': '02:C4:7F:51:2A:12', 'name': '02-C4-7F-51-2A-12'}, {'address': '5F:7C:40:A7:72:4A', 'name': '5F-7C-40-A7-72-4A'}, {'address': '79:D1:87:7F:9D:FD', 'name': '79-D1-87-7F-9D-FD'}, {'address': '5A:A6:8A:38:BF:20', 'name': '5A-A6-8A-38-BF-20'}, {'address': '49:42:DB:44:28:CD', 'name': '49-42-DB-44-28-CD'}, {'address': '30:EC:0C:04:EB:B2', 'name': '30-EC-0C-04-EB-B2'}, {'address': '74:E2:1F:75:69:E8', 'name': '74-E2-1F-75-69-E8'}, {'address': '61:2B:E7:F0:29:66', 'name': '61-2B-E7-F0-29-66'}]
2021-11-21 16:17:52 ERROR (MainThread) [custom_components.triones] Error getting status: Characteristic with UUID 0000ffd4-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb could not be found!
2021-11-21 16:17:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.triones] Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/config/custom_components/triones/triones.py", line 73, in update
    await self._device.start_notify(R_CHARACTERISTIC_UUID, create_status_callback(future))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/bleak/backends/bluezdbus/client.py", line 915, in start_notify
    raise BleakError(
bleak.exc.BleakError: Characteristic with UUID 0000ffd4-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb could not be found!

2021-11-21 16:17:52 DEBUG (MainThread) [custom_components.triones]  cc 23 33
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Thanks @CO_4X4. Please follow the GitHub issue you filed for updates on this.

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Thank you so much for doing this. I have it working with two of these units:

I can hardly wait until I can invoke the built-in modes.

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I just upgraded(?) to core-2021.12.0 and I now get the following error:

Logger: homeassistant.setup
Source: setup.py:291
First occurred: 4:25:33 PM (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 4:25:33 PM

Unable to prepare setup for platform triones.light: Platform not found (cannot import name ‘match_max_scale’ from ‘homeassistant.util.color’ (/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/util/color.py)).

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Thanks for the report, will look into this. Haven’t upgraded myself.

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Fixed with latest version. This component now requires minimum HA version 2021.12.0 with the latest commit.

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Thank you very much. That seems to have fixed it.

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Hi, unfortunately HA gives “Config flow could not be loaded: undefined” error whenever I try to add the integration. Tried installing both manually and via HACS, is there anything else I should have installed in order for this to work?