That’s very interesting. The staffs just replied me that they never produce a light strip whose model is YLDD02YL. I sent the Amazon Link to them and wait for the reply. I also check the overseas version (YLDD02YL) again. I think there is no difference besides YYDD02YL shipped with an adapter.
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That’s very strange. I’m sure they’re mistaken.
I saw your conversation with Yeelight Staff in their forums. As @patosullivan mentioned, I believe the person who responded is mistaken.
This is the lightstrip that we purchased from Amazon during Prime Day: https://www.amazon.com/Lightstrip-Changing-Smartphone-Compatible-Lighting/dp/B01LRT0B56
It is even listed with that model number of Yeelight’s product page (scroll to bottom):
https://www.yeelight.com/en_US/product/pitaya
Perhaps YLDD02YL is the model that is exported outside of China via Xiaomi to comply with international regulations and the Yeelight staff that responded is unfamiliar with these exported models.
Just got my Yeelight strip from Amazon today and it is the YLD02YL version. I set it up and had some issues with it at first (it would only turn on or off, I couldn’t change the brightness or the color). After I upgraded the firmware on the light through the Yeelink app the weirdness went away and it functions like a normal RGB bulb.
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Yeah, I totally agree with you.
Would you mind telling me the version of latest firmware?
It’s 1.4.1_34.
Exactly the same. Now I am getting confused. At first, I think it is about region, so I move it to Singpore Area. Then, I think it is about firmware, but now we can be sure it is not. Why indeed two almost the same thing just cannot have the same result?
Yeah that’s very strange. There was a similar issue with their cameras (called “Yi”, for some reason), the"international" versions work fine with some OSS hacks, but the Chinese mainland versions didn’t work at all.
Here’s the latest news. One staff replied me at forum that they just change the supplier for adapter, which means that the core components keep the same. Does the code involve in any values about adapter? If not, then there is nothing about the hardware itself.
I have the YLDD01YL version. In. my case it shows up in the front end but it is not possible to get information on its status. I cannot turn it on or off. Did you manage to find a solution?
Unfortunately no. And the log shows that HA can find device but seems there is no efficient communication protocol working.
I have two YLDD01YL and ithey work fine. on/off, color change and effects. I’m not using music mode. They are connected to mainland china server as my other yeelights, never changed it.
Really?! I guess I found my savior. I have tried for many weeks but failed. What is your configuration? Like the normal one? And do you use xiaomi platform as well?
I will do my best… 
my config is as basic as it gets:
- platform: yeelight
Nothing more nothing less. I did not add the IP numbers as they changed for some reason and I did not not try to give them static IP’s in my dhcp server. I have many xiaomi sensors and several other yeelights.
Wow, so basically just add a platform huh? Well, I try your method and like always, it keep showing this error:
2017-08-16 13:42:47 WARNING (Thread-5) [root] Unknown miio device found: ServiceInfo(type=’_miio._udp.local.’, name=‘yeelink-light-strip1_miio54692213._miio._udp.local.’, address=b’\xc0\xa82\xd5’, port=54321, weight=0, priority=0, server=‘yeelink-light-strip1_miio54692213.local.’, properties={b’mac’: b’286c072f6ce6’, b’epoch’: b’1’})
I’m 100% sure that I turn on the developer mode of strip.
I think you are magical! I just delete all configuration about yeelight, even the platform. And everything works fantastic~~
So you went for the ultra-minimalistic mode Glad to hear it works
Still thanks for your inspiration~ Who knows that after all struggle, the final way is to delete all the things.