YoLink integration

Room presence sensor??? (in conjunction with motion sensor) @Eric-YoLink :thinking:

Can multiple hubs be used in one house? I.E. can I get a standard hub so it’s plugged in and hardwired but also have a wireless hub to take advantage of audio playback?

you can have as many hubs, or devices, as you want. we have no published limits. Sometime back, an early-adopter customer put 200 devices on one Hub with no issue at all. I just spoke to an engineer and he said, easily, a 1000, although some of the new Class-D devices are capable of streaming realtime data, so in that case you might be limited to closer to 300 of them (on one hub). Your home internet bandwidth is more likely to be a limit before it is with our hardware.

for another $24 you can add a hub, and it does not interfere with the other hubs, it’s only expanding your coverage, range and adding some redundancy.

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Got gigabit internet with no cap so not worried about speed or bandwidth, just wanted to make sure I could have a centrally located hub that’s off the WiFi and wired, and still utilize some of the features of the WiFi only audio hub. Good to know, thanks!

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we’re just waiting on the release of 2022.6

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Good. Lets hope the local version will also be realised. If not yoLink is not interesting

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Wow!! Amazing! Huge Milestone @Eric-YoLink ! Very proud to see this project reach the integration phase. It will definitely become possible to start being creative with YoLink devices in my smart ecosystem. Congrats to all that were involved into this!

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Great news!! Thanks for keeping us updated.

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Eric, Thank you for keeping us up to date, I know it hasn’t been easy being stuck in the middle. I have been a long time user of YoLink and am very excited to see the initial integration. Thanks again for your help.
John

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Great news Eric, I’m glad that all the Yolink products that I have are on the verifed list.

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This makes my heart sing!! At last!

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ThirdReality

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WOW, I got my dev system connected do some YS7707-UC contact switches almost instantly! The performance seems pretty good as well.

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Was super interested until I saw “Cloud Push”.

Not buying into an ecosystem where one day it goes under and all the equipment is trash.

The fact that this integration’s development was done with Cloud Push makes me think we won’t see local control any time soon either. Why “waste” the development cycles to push out a Cloud version to redo all that code to make it local? Hope I’m wrong.

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@bs_42 They are coming out with a hub that supports local control later this year. besides, if you have never used a LoRa based product, I thing you would be surprised at the crazy distance they can stay connected, 1000 feet is way more than Z-WAVE or Zigbee. :slight_smile: Cloud push is defiantly not ideal, but it was really easy to setup and appears to work pretty well.

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By the way and Just my opinion… there is a dramatic difference from spending 100$ on a hub and a few battery driven sensors and several thousand dollars on wall switches that are hardwired. I feel really bad for the folks that got burned by insteon, but to lump all products with a cloud component into the same bucket as insteon does not feel right.

Additionality I am all for local control and sell me the gizmo and i can cover the software (tasmota, esphome, Arduino). With two or three weeks of effort, I could build a home brew LoRa sensor and hub with Heltec ESP32 LoRa boards, 3d printed enclosures and that would be fine but I set the Yolink stuff up in under an hour and it just worked. Have an awesome evening all!!

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Its not about treating all cloud based product as the same. Its about local or cloud. My house will never have any cloud based system installed, whatever it is. If I cant do what I want without being cloud connected, then I dont do it. But thats me

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If it’s not for you, fine, but this isn’t a surprise.

It’s been clear this first version would not be local. Cloud has always been the immediate target.

Better to have an integration that works with the existing product now rather than wait for the yet to be released (or even announced) local control product (especially with current chip supply issues).

If there has been any foresight at all, the cloud version won’t be wasted effort. It could be as simple as changing an API call to a local target from the integration’s perspective.

Best laid plans and all, it’s never as simple as intended, but if nothing else they know what’s expected for inclusion in core.

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@Eric-YoLink

Still a week left for a docs PR. Add product names/descriptions to the model numbers.