Yeelight LED Bulbs (RGB and White Bulbs)

[silvrr]

@silvrr

Strange turn of events. I was cleaning up my shop last night and saw this bulb sitting on my bench. Figured I would plug it in one last time before I tossed it.

Turned on normal. Re-added it to the app and HA, working perfectly. We shall see how long it lasts, might be fluke or it may be back for good. Interesting though as I did a lot of resets before contacting gearbest.

And its dead again. Same symptoms as before. All my other bulbs are going strong still, seems to be just an issue with this bulb.

[Jozef_Boda (Jozef Boďa)]

Hello is it possible to control yeelight with switch without base station ?

[sjee]

Sure it’s WiFi

[Jozef_Boda (Jozef Boďa)]

but not with app in mobile
I would like to buy https://www.gearbest.com/access-control/pp_626695.html
but im not sure it will work without base station

[Bobby_Nobble]

Completely different systems, Yeelight are wifi and Aqara is a zigbee based system. Don’t make the mistake of assuming because it says Xiaomi in the name they are related, Yeelight are a separate company.

[sjee]

As @Bobby_Nobble wrote you need a gateway to use the zigbee switch. That’s is also what is says in the description…

Please Note:
This item must match the xiaomi multifunctional gateway to use.

[Jozef_Boda (Jozef Boďa)]

Thank you for reply, is existing something like this for yeelight ? My wife will not use mobile app to switch off the yeelight, she use power switch on wall.

[Bobby_Nobble]

Assuming your using HA to control the Yeelight, otherwise why would you be here , you need to be looking for something that will trigger the relevant action in HA rather than the bulb itself. Don’t think there’s anything that will control the colour but on/off and dimming are possible. Other than that get an Echo Dot and let her shout at it, that got my missus to use them.

[Jozef_Boda (Jozef Boďa)]

I just recaived first yeelight, so i doing some research how to use it, I want to automaticly switch on at mornig, but when my wife switch it off from electriciiity by swit on wall, it will not comunicate morning. So im looking for some wifi switch for xiaomi my home application to use it without their base station, by the way i bought today raspbery 3, so i can try to use HA

[moskovskiy82]

Music mode

Per default the bulb limits the amount of requests per minute to 60, a limitation which can be bypassed by enabling the music mode. In music mode the bulb is commanded to connect back to a socket provided by the component and it tries to keep the connection open, which may not be wanted in all use-cases.

Can somebody please provide the drawbacks of having the bulb in music mode?

[rsachoc]

Wonder if anyone could help. This is my config

light:
  - platform: yeelight
    devices:
      192.168.1.197:
        name: Outside Front Door
        transition: 1000
        use_music_mode: True
        save_on_change: False

This is my automation:

- alias: 'Front door outside light on'
  trigger:
    - platform: sun
      event: sunset
      offset: "00:5:00"
  action:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: light.outside_front_door

- alias: 'Front door outside light off'
  trigger:
    - platform: sun
      event: sunrise
      offset: "00:10:00"
  action:
    - service: homeassistant.turn_off
      entity_id: light.outside_front_door

The sunrise off automation works fine, but the sunset one (turning one) doesn’t. This is what I see in the logs at the time it triggers:

2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.automation] Executing Front door outside light on
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event logbook_entry[L]: name=Front door outside light on, message=has been triggered, domain=automation, entity_id=automation.front_door_outside_light_on>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script Front door outside light on: Running script
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.script] Script Front door outside light on: Executing step call service
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event call_service[L]: domain=homeassistant, service=turn_on, service_data=entity_id=['light.outside_front_door'], service_call_id=139989168647640-45>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event call_service[L]: domain=light, service=turn_on, service_data=entity_id=['light.outside_front_door'], service_call_id=139989168647640-46>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [yeelight.main] Music mode cache update: {'power': 'on'}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [yeelight.main] Bulb<192.168.1.197:55443, type=BulbType.Color> > {'id': 36, 'method': 'set_power', 'params': ['on', 'smooth', 1000]}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Calling <function YeelightLight.set_rgb at 0x7f51a45ab840> with (None, 1000) {}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Calling <function YeelightLight.set_colortemp at 0x7f51a45ab950> with (None, 1000) {}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Calling <function YeelightLight.set_brightness at 0x7f51a45ab730> with (None, 1000) {}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Calling <function YeelightLight.set_flash at 0x7f51a45abb70> with (None,) {}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 DEBUG (SyncWorker_13) [homeassistant.components.light.yeelight] Calling <function YeelightLight.set_effect at 0x7f51a45abc80> with (None,) {}
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=light.outside_front_door, old_state=<state light.outside_front_door=off; friendly_name=Outside Front Door, supported_features=127 @ 2017-11-27T07:07:22.388731-05:00>, new_state=<state light.outside_front_door=on; brightness=255.0, color_temp=250, min_mireds=153, max_mireds=588, rgb_color=(255, 67.92041905680745, 0), xy_color=(0.654, 0.342), effect_list=['Disco', 'Slow Temp', 'Strobe epilepsy!', 'Strobe color', 'Alarm', 'Police', 'Police2', 'Christmas', 'RGB', 'Random Loop', 'Fast Random Loop', 'Slowdown', 'WhatsApp', 'Facebook', 'Twitter', 'Stop'], friendly_name=Outside Front Door, supported_features=127 @ 2017-11-27T16:36:59.392149-05:00>>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=group.lights, old_state=<state group.lights=off; entity_id=('light.outside_front_door', 'light.garage'), order=1, view=True, friendly_name=Lights, hidden=True, assumed_state=False @ 2017-11-27T07:07:22.390548-05:00>, new_state=<state group.lights=on; entity_id=('light.outside_front_door', 'light.garage'), order=1, view=True, friendly_name=Lights, hidden=True, assumed_state=False @ 2017-11-27T16:36:59.394039-05:00>>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=group.all_lights, old_state=<state group.all_lights=off; entity_id=('light.garage', 'light.gateway_light_34ce0088d77c', 'light.outside_front_door'), order=12, auto=True, friendly_name=all lights, hidden=True, assumed_state=False @ 2017-11-27T07:07:22.391873-05:00>, new_state=<state group.all_lights=on; entity_id=('light.garage', 'light.gateway_light_34ce0088d77c', 'light.outside_front_door'), order=12, auto=True, friendly_name=all lights, hidden=True, assumed_state=False @ 2017-11-27T16:36:59.397902-05:00>>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event service_executed[L]: service_call_id=139989168647640-46>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event service_executed[L]: service_call_id=139989168647640-45>
2017-11-27 16:36:59 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=automation.front_door_outside_light_on, old_state=<state automation.front_door_outside_light_on=on; last_triggered=2017-11-26T16:37:26.877705-05:00, friendly_name=Front door outside light on @ 2017-11-26T12:27:50.779003-05:00>, new_state=<state automation.front_door_outside_light_on=on; last_triggered=2017-11-27T16:36:59.407769-05:00, friendly_name=Front door outside light on @ 2017-11-26T12:27:50.779003-05:00>>
2017-11-27 16:37:01 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=sensor.date__time, old_state=<state sensor.date__time=2017-11-27, 16:36; friendly_name=Date & Time, icon=mdi:calendar-clock @ 2017-11-27T16:36:01.379658-05:00>, new_state=<state sensor.date__time=2017-11-27, 16:37; friendly_name=Date & Time, icon=mdi:calendar-clock @ 2017-11-27T16:37:01.381224-05:00>>
2017-11-27 16:37:25 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [yeelight.main] Bulb<192.168.1.189:55443, type=BulbType.Color> > {'id': 3282, 'method': 'get_prop', 'params': ['power', 'bright', 'ct', 'rgb', 'hue', 'sat', 'color_mode', 'flowing', 'delayoff', 'music_on', 'name']}
2017-11-27 16:37:25 DEBUG (SyncWorker_7) [yeelight.main] Bulb<192.168.1.189:55443, type=BulbType.Color> < {'id': 3282, 'result': ['off', '100', '', '', '', '', '2', '0', '0', '', '']}
2017-11-27 16:37:30 INFO (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Bus:Handling <Event state_changed[L]: entity_id=sun.sun, old_state=<state sun.sun=below_horizon; next_dawn=2017-11-28T11:28:14+00:00, next_dusk=2017-11-27T22:02:08+00:00, next_midnight=2017-11-28T04:45:15+00:00, next_noon=2017-11-28T16:45:01+00:00, next_rising=2017-11-28T11:58:26+00:00, next_setting=2017-11-28T21:31:35+00:00, elevation=-1.51, azimuth=242.83, friendly_name=Sun @ 2017-11-27T16:32:00.381600-05:00>, new_state=<state sun.sun=below_horizon; next_dawn=2017-11-28T11:28:14+00:00, next_dusk=2017-11-27T22:02:08+00:00, next_midnight=2017-11-28T04:45:15+00:00, next_noon=2017-11-28T16:45:01+00:00, next_rising=2017-11-28T11:58:26+00:00, next_setting=2017-11-28T21:31:35+00:00, elevation=-1.7, azimuth=242.99, friendly_name=Sun @ 2017-11-27T16:32:00.381600-05:00>>

The strange thing is I had the exact same automation working perfectly with the white bulb, but not with the color bulb. Note, these are the 110v US versions of the bulbs, bought from amazon.com

Thanks!

[silvrr]

I would take the transition, music mode and save on change out of your yeelight config.

Also use light.turn_on or light.turn_off in your automations. i have seen reports of homeassistant.turn_on/off causing issues sometimes. I use it a lot and don’t have issues but others have had issues with some services.

[rsachoc]

Thanks, let me try that suggestion!

[pepebc (José Baeza)]

I’m a newbie in Home Assistant. I have several yeelight lights and besides having automation I would like to manage by voice with API.AI. Not even know where to start
Thank you

[igpels (Luke)]

Are you trying to control your lights with voice using google home?

[pepebc (José Baeza)]

I prefer Dialogflow (api-ai) to manage conversations
The problem is that I do not know how to relate voice commands with lights

[diego06 (Diego)]

Hello!
Yesterday I updated the firmware of my yeelight lamps (one rgb and one white) and now I can’t see anymore both of them in HA… does anyone have the same issue?
Obviously they are still working in yeelight app and MiHome app.

Thanks

[sparkydave (🇦🇺 Dave)]

From memory when you do a firmware update it resets the ‘developer mode’ to OFF. Go in using the Yeelight app and turn ‘developer mode’ back ON

[Bobby_Nobble]

I got caught by that one a couple of weeks ago

[diego06 (Diego)]

Actually it’s the first thing I thought, unfortunately was not the case… I also tried to remove and add again but again nothing happen