Yeelight Light Strip

Third party integrations
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I purchased a Yeelight strip from Gearbest and it worked great out of the box with Hass. I just used discovery. I didn’t configure it at all other than turn on LAN control from the YeeLight app. The model was YLDD01YL.

I bought another from Amazon, thinking it was the same, but it turns out its a newer model, the YLDD02YL. This one turns on and off with Hass OK, but brightness and colors don’t respond. The workaround is, say I want to lower the brightness, I have to turn it off, then touch the approximate brightness I want and it will turn on to that level.

I went ahead and tried ignoring yee light in discovery and manually configuring each one (static IP, music mode on, etc.) and still have the same results.

Reading through other threads, it seems like the version 2 (from Amazon) should work OK and the version 1 (from Gearbest) should have the issues.

Not that it makes a difference in the way its reacting, but here is the current config I am trying.

light:
  - platform: yeelight
    devices:
      192.168.xx.xx:
        name: 'Fireplace Lights'
        use_music_mode: True
      192.168.xx.xx:
        name: 'Bed Lights'
        use_music_mode: True

Anyone have any ideas?

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I have struggled with Yeelight Strip for quite a while before. Actually YLDD02YL is not a new version, just change the adapter model towards western market. Other things are exactly the same as YLDD01YL.

One thing need to be done before we dig into HA. Did you update it to latest firmware with Developer mode on? Yeelight just update their app to version 3.0, not bad to have a try.

For HA, try not to use music mode, it benefits little.

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Yes the firmware is up to date. Wondering if I should just return this one and by another from GearBest.