Xiaomi Yeelight LED strip

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Hi is there a componet that offers intergration of the Xiaomi Yeelight LED strip?
I found them very cheap for only 30 dollers (see http://www.xiaomitoday.com/xiaomi-yeelight-smart-light-strip-review/ for promotion code: XMstrip )
They connect though wifi.

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intrested too

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Have you tried adding them manually as a yeelight component?

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I was thinking about buying them if they could be intergrated with HASS

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The work correctly with the current yeelight component.

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are they zigbee?

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no, they are wifi

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I can turn the Yeelight strip on/off in HASS

However the Brightness, Color Temperature etc do not work

Has anyone got these control options to work?

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Mine is working fine both color and brightness.
Have you added its IP address to the yaml?

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yes - i have the IP address added to my config yaml - this is how I am able to control on/off

the Brightness slider will work, but only if I move it far left (and strip turns off)

and if it the strip is off and slider is far left, if i move the slider away from far left - the strip will turn on

the brightness of the strip does not go up or down when i slide the brightness left and/or right

The ā€˜Color Temperatureā€™ slider and colour palette do not work at all

struggling to understand why these bits are not working

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Make sure to have the config 100% correct. You can also adjust several parameters for it to respond faster (which fooled me at first being that it didnā€™t respond quick enough). Also if the wifi is not getting a strong signal, it might delay a bit (or not respond).

(in my lights.yaml file - just make sure your spacing and syntax is correct)

  • platform: yeelight
    devices:
    192.168.2.22:
    name: D-Office
    transition: 1000 #(default is 350ms just make sure not to set too low or too high)
    use_music_mode: True #(defaults to False - True will help keep the communications open)
    save_on_change: False #(defaults to True)
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thanks for the suggestion dmiddlet2005

my config looks 100% correct and I guess that is why I can turn the device on and off

My issue is that the ā€˜Color Temperatureā€™ slider and Brightness slider do not work

Do they work for you?

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Yes they do. Couple of things to try: 1) in the yeelight app, is the Developer option selected? 2) can you modify the colors and such from the yeelight app?

What does your popup look like on HomeAssistant?

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hi dmiddlet2005,

thanks for your suggestions

Yes - in the Yeelight app, the developer mode is enabled and I can change the colour and/or brightness

http://i.imgur.com/kJvmx8W.png

it is v strange that i canā€™t control the RGB strip as I can control my Yeelight bulbs in HA

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I think I understand what you are encountering. I am able to perform all controls from the popup, but not set any settings from the yaml file other than on and off and transition. Maybe I am doing something wrong also. What I am working on is using an led strip to light up RED in the front hallway when the alarm is on. This ā€œshouldā€ prevent my family from just running out the front door without turning off the alarm.

What I had to do for that instance was turn on the yeelight, set the color I wanted, then turn it off. It will remember the last color. Would love to get it to flash green for a few seconds when the alarm is turned off. Iā€™ll keep playing with it.

Here is my automation section referring to this action.

  • alias: ā€˜Alarm_Armed_Homeā€™
    trigger:
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmcom
    platform: state
    to: ā€˜armed_homeā€™
    action:
    service: light.turn_on
    entity_id: light.alarmstatus

  • alias: ā€˜Alarm_Disarmedā€™
    trigger:
    entity_id: alarm_control_panel.alarmcom
    platform: state
    to: ā€˜disarmedā€™
    action:
    service: light.turn_off
    entity_id: light.alarmstatus

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Hello, my yeelight strip lights work except for the ā€œeffectā€. If I choose any effect, the light becomes unavailable.

Besides that, I am getting this warning:

2017-08-30 21:07:16 WARNING (Thread-9) [root] Unknown miio device found: ServiceInfo(type='_miio._udp.local.', name='yeelink-light-strip1_miio56728920._miio._udp.local.', address=b'\xx0\xx8\xx1\xx7', port=54321, weight=0, priority=0, server='yeelink-light-strip1_miio56728920.local.', properties={b'mac': b'xxxxxxxxxx', b'epoch': b'1'})

How can this be fixed?

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Which version of HA are you using?

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I am using the latest version: 0.52.1.

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I thought the ā€œunknown deviceā€ problem was already fixed, apparently not. More info:

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Iā€™ve set them using the ipā€™s. They are working, even they were working before setting up ipā€™s.

So this is just a matter of unwanted warnings in the log.