MiLight WiFi Controller (iBox 2) with LED-Stripe

Configuration
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I tried with type “rgbw”, “rgbww”, “white”, no effect. I even tried with version: 5 & port: 8899, nothings changes. The weird thing is I don’t event get any log outputs other than

INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Loaded light.limitlessled from homeassistant.components.light.limitlessled
and
INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.light] Setting up light.limitlessled

Any ideas on how to troubleshoot further?

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Can you post an image of the remote that works in the app? (this affects the settings that should be used).

Also, double check the IP address :slight_smile:

23

Thanks for your help!

Sure! The remote I am using is the second from the left:

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720×1238 352 KB

With this “virtual remote”, it is working just fine!

The IP is correct. I am able to access the bridges web interface:

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Hopefully you didn’t change any settings in that web interface.

The remote should work as type: rgbw like you had so it looks like some network issue at your end. Do you have a firewall or other advanced setup that could have gone awry?

You can enable debugging logs with the below configuration but it will only tell you that messages are being sent, you are not able to see whether they are received by the bridge.

logger:
  default: warning
  logs:
    limitlessled: debug
25

I put a port into my config. See above.

Do you see the entity in Home Assistant?

26

Did you get it to work?
I have the same Wifi bridge with the exact same software version and was also struggling with the Hass config.
Verified port and ip address.

A version 6 in the configuration.yaml kept resulting in “Connection Refused” message in the home-assistant.log

I had tried several other versions and enabled debugging.

The cause of my problem was the setting on the MiLight controller, it was set to UDP 8899 (homebridge can only use UDP) while the Home-Assistant tries to connect using TCP (and could not connect, causing the connection refused message)
I changed the Network Connection to: TCP-Server and the port back to 5987 and use RGBWW for the type of my lights.
Now everything works!

Hope it helps

27

Hi Guys,

i need your help. Did anybody has a working solution with this setup?

My Setup:
3 Led-Stribe
ibox2:
-ip: Setting
-protocoll: TCP-Server
-port: 8899

HA:
yaml:
light:

  • platform: limitlessled
    bridges:
    • host: 192.168.188.33
      version: 6 (only port 6 are working)
      port: 8899
      groups:
      • number: 1
        name: wz
        type: rgbw
      • number: 2
        name: kitchen
        type: rgbw
      • number: 3
        name: sz
        type: rgbww

Tried several configuration but nothing works for me.
Any hints?