I posted this in Reddit as well.
What extra equipment would I need to get these working with HA?
I started renovating my house pre COVID and bought Milight YL5 controllers, B8 and T4 panels and RGB-CCT LED light strips (12V) as well as a couple of milight bulbs (these aren’t so important) but didn’t buy the gateway at the time.
Then COVID and a few other delays happened and so I’m finally back to renovation.
All the milight stuff has changed to miboxer and while I know I could get a 2.4GHz WL Box 2 (I believe it’s called) from looking on this forum it seems that it’s not great and the ESP Milight Hub would be better. Is that correct?
Also with HA (or EMH) can you assign the lights to the panels so the panels work even if the HA is down for some reason? I don’t really want to go through the faff of removing power from all the YL5s and linking them back to the panels manually again.
Thank you for all your help to a complete noob. If any more information is needed please ask.