Hi guys
I’m using the Homekit HA component at the moment on hass.io. At this moment I can access all my lights through the UI of Home Assistant. But I can’t see my lights in iOS Home using the Homekit HA component.
What I can see in iOS Home: My temperature and door sensors, the xiaomi gateway light, my d-link power switch and my apple tv 4. that’s it.
Any suggestions what I should try?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
I have 2 Xiaomi Yeelight LED strips and they don’t show in the Home App on iOS. It’s similar to your issue Meugester, as I have also a Xiaomi Gateway and that shows the light in Home App no problems.
Did you find a solution in the end?
Hey @CousinLarry
I figured out how to do it:
In my configuration file I added:
# lights
light: !include lights.yaml
And in my lights.yaml I added for example:
- platform: yeelight
devices:
192.168.1.25:
name: Esstisch
All you need to know, is the IP address of your Yeelight bulb. You can find it in the Yeelight App or the MiHome app.
Hi. I’m just switching from Homebridge to HA HomeKit and I cannot get my Yeelightstrip to add. Iv followed your suggestion above and it won’t add, i can control it with HA fine and through the Yee App
what does your config file look like?
i only just started a few days so its a basic config everything else works fine in HomeKit
homeassistant:
# Name of the location where Home Assistant is running
name: Home
# Location required to calculate the time the sun rises and sets
latitude: 0
longitude: 0
# Impacts weather/sunrise data (altitude above sea level in meters)
elevation: 0
# metric for Metric, imperial for Imperial
unit_system: metric
# Pick yours from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
time_zone: GB
# Customization file
customize: !include customize.yaml
# Show links to resources in log and frontend
introduction:
# Enables the frontend
frontend:
# Enables configuration UI
config:
# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
# http:
# base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123
# Checks for available updates
# Note: This component will send some information about your system to
# the developers to assist with development of Home Assistant.
# For more information, please see:
# https://home-assistant.io/blog/2016/10/25/explaining-the-updater/
updater:
# Optional, allows Home Assistant developers to focus on popular components.
# include_used_components: true
# Discover some devices automatically
discovery:
# Allows you to issue voice commands from the frontend in enabled browsers
conversation:
# Enables support for tracking state changes over time
history:
# View all events in a logbook
logbook:
# Enables a map showing the location of tracked devices
map:
# Track the sun
sun:
#homekit
homekit:
filter:
exclude_domains:
- light
include_domains:
- light.headboard
- sensor
- light.yeelight_strip_7c49ebaee4a7
#Xiomi Temps
sensor:
- platform: mitemp_bt
mac: '4C:65:A8:D9:48:59'
name: Our room
force_update: true
median: 3
monitored_conditions:
- temperature
- humidity
- platform: mitemp_bt
mac: '4C:65:A8:D9:48:8B'
name: Tylers Room
force_update: true
median: 3
monitored_conditions:
- temperature
- humidity
- platform: mitemp_bt
mac: '4C:65:A8:D9:61:A0'
name: Livingroom
force_update: true
median: 3
monitored_conditions:
- temperature
- humidity
- platform: yr
# Text to speech
tts:
- platform: google
# Cloud
cloud:
light: !include lights.yaml
group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
# API
http:
api_password:
# Xbox and Media Player
media_player:
platform: xboxone
device: FD0054C9AC0E8500
name: Living Room Xbox Onehi,
with the latest build 0.91, since yeelight has changed config ,
i can’t make it be visible on Homekit
previusly i exposed it in the configuration.yaml
in the homekit section, but now i cant manage to do it!
i’ve tried this config haswell but don’t work
discovery:
ignore:
- yeelight
yeelight:
devices:
192.168.1.25:
name: Living RoomI have the same problem as you. After updating hass.io to the newest build, my Yeelight configuration stopped working. Siri integration doesn‘t work anymore neither.
Any hints?
yeelight working fine in configuration.yaml.
yeelight:
devices:
192.168.1.45:
name: lamp
but not working in light.yaml
light:
- platform: yeelight
devices:
192.168.1.45:
name: lamp
That is because yeelight is no longer part of the light platform. You need to do something like this:
in your configuration.yaml add:
yeelight: !yeelight.yaml
and your yeelight.yaml should look like this:
devices:
192.168.1.45:
name: lamp
Yes it is.
Dear sjee, I tried the solution you suggested but sadly it does not work. My yeelight gets exposed to HomeKit but when I tap to toggle/change colour/brightness nothing at all happens.
My Yeelight has the most recent firmware and I am running hassio 0.97.2.
Controlling the lights from the hassio web interface works like a charm!
I would be happy if anyone could help to solve this problem 
Kind regards
dop_amin
For me, your solution, @sjee, works like a charm.
@dop_amin: For me restarting Home Assistant (Settings -> Server Control) did the job. I can’t change to color through Homekit but changing the brightness works.
@meugster As far as I can remember I did this (at least once!) with no success but when I tried it again today it worked as you stated!
Sadly setting the color does not work in general. Sometimes I can manage to change it but in most cases when I select a new color the light switches to the new color for a short period of time but then goes back to the “old” color. Very odd! Seems like something is periodically “overwriting” the color settings? I’ll look into this a little bit more in detail in the next time.
I hope someday it will be possible to control the color too 
Kind regards
dop_amin
i have added the yeelight configuration into the configuration.yaml file, but i still cannot see anything yeelight related in the webui. How should the yeelight control look like?
@molnart What does your configuration look like?
Check out the integration documentation, that should help:
The sample config – if you know the IP addresses of your yeelights – is:
# Example configuration.yaml entry
discovery:
ignore:
- yeelight
yeelight:
devices:
192.168.1.25:
name: Living Room
it looks like this - the light ip address is correct - i can control it via the Yeelight Control UWP app.
also i am wondering why is there no yeelight option in the integrations menu in the app…?
# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:
# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
# http:
# base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123
# Text to speech
tts:
- platform: google_translate
yeelight:
devices:
192.168.50.192:
name: Light Office
model: ceiling3
group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
scene: !include scenes.yaml