I was able to get my speaker to work through HA. So far just using it as a door chime. Door sensor open → webhook to IFTTT → Yolink scene with tone. There’s a bit of a delay (2-3 seconds) would be nice to reduce that time though
In terms of getting Pool Temperature into my HA (without have to build myself) do you recommend YoLink for this? Integrates easily into HA now? (assuming I’d need to do a HA upgrade to latest version)
I have a couple yolink temperature sensors with the probe end inside a freezer, and HA integration allows me to see their temps in a dashboard, and it was not difficult to set up. I imagine it’d also be fine for a pool.
Agree with @JBDaddy , just keep in mind that the current hub forces yhou to use the internet for it to work unfortunately. The best I have seen are Shelly sensors and relays, in whicn every product they have integrates directly into home assistant without any hub (not even a zwave or zigbee hub is needed) - and every single shelly device has it’s own IP addr5ess and even web page for detailed settings. They really are incredible. HOWEVER, the only reason why I am still using YoLink in my setup is - they have a $9 / month service which will call you, and then if you do not respond in a timely manner - call the police (and it is a live person calling) - with details on wherever the leak or issue is - and you can add or remove all of your yolink devices to the service - ideal for home grown alarm systems - everyone talks about not having to rely on the internet - but in this one case this is their saving grace, the available aforementioned service. 
It is listed as compatible now. Try it out and let me know what you think!
I am sorry about the slow reply! If you are still interested in this, please email your request to [email protected]
this helps to quantify the customer requirement for new features and integrations.
I think it’s in the works, but please email your request to [email protected] this helps to quantify the customer requirement for new features and integrations.
I saw that FlexFob was now supported, so bought a couple. Added a test one to the YoLink app without issue. I upgraded my HA core from 2023.3.6 to 2023.4.2 then found that the fob had been added as a device. However, the buttons do not show up as entities. This is all I get:
I have reloaded the integration a couple of times, restarted HA, etc.
I’m sorry about the slow reply! The FlexFob is integrated with HA now.
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I have been waiting nearly 6 Months for the Flex-Fob to integrate with HA. I got the same results that you did, only two entities were created sensor.yolink_fob_battery and sensor.yolink_fob_signal. I was hoping to get a couple more to handle some triggers in automations. My concern is whether HA will be able to differentiate between them. Meanwhile, I am waiting for @Eric-YoLink to weigh in and guide us.
And the signal sensor is not even available. 23 of my 83 Yolink entities are sensor.xxxx_signal and the status for all is Disabled by Integration.
Ideally, we will eventually get 8 entities for the FlexFob, short- vs. long-press for each of the 4 buttons. Fingers crossed.
I could be wrong here, but I don’t think that’s how buttons integrate in.
I have other buttons that show nothing more than a battery entity. You may have to use the Developer Tools to listen for the events of the button presses for your Home Assistant to learn those and you can take that into an Automation.
Or, if someone creates a Blueprint, that makes it incredibly easy.
I’ve only used Blueprints for this, so can’t offer much help on the event learning.
It looks like you are right, @Nameless, thank you. I never would have thought of that. I tried listening to events in the Developer Tools, first for the state_changed listeners with no joy. Then tried the * (everything?) listener and got:
event_type: yolink_event
data:
type: button_1_short_press
device_id: XX----hex id unique to fob----XX
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: "2023-04-11T15:05:47.096106+00:00"
context:
id: XX----alphanumeric id changes every time?--XX
parent_id: null
user_id: null
All of the buttons come through, short- and long-presses.
I use Node-Red for my automations and now have the same information via an events: all node. @007DJ, once I figure out how to parse the message to identify buttons, I’ll be happy to share.
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I was given some info for the FlexFob integration. See below. I do want to clarify you can use the fob to trigger an HA automation but you can not trigger the fob, which is why you can’t set up button entities.
What actions of your fob are you attempting to carry out that you can’t do directly from HA?
- id: '1675507288978'
alias: Turn dimmer off
description: ''
trigger:
- device_id: 934da80995bb5425c040aad18a4fd92a
domain: yolink
platform: device
type: button_1_short_press
condition: []
action:
- type: turn_off
device_id: e75a98caaa244c9a5e1b9138dc567633
entity_id: light.yolink_dimmer
domain: light
mode: single
- id: '1675507328863'
alias: Turn dimmer on
description: ''
trigger:
- device_id: 934da80995bb5425c040aad18a4fd92a
domain: yolink
platform: device
type: button_1_long_press
condition: []
action:
- type: turn_on
device_id: e75a98caaa244c9a5e1b9138dc567633
entity_id: light.yolink_dimmer
domain: light
mode: single
@Eric-YoLink, Sorry but I dont have the cycles to read the backlog of entries…
What ever happened to local control for a yolink hub? Did that ever get delivered to the market? I would go out and buy a new hub today if it is availible…
Thanks for the explanation, Eric. I get now that the button entities I was asking for wouldn’t work - makes sense.
@Nameless gave me the clue to find the event that was being fired on button press. (See my post #513 above.) I was able to quickly create a flow in Node-Red that captured an event and route it to trigger 8 possible actions, corresponding to buttons 1-4, short- vs. long-press. This flow would would allow multiple fobs to be “programmed” so that the actions triggered by each would be identical, which fits my current use case.
Looking to the future, I was able to adapt the first to create a second flow that will allow two fobs to be “programmed” individually. More fobs could be added easily. Works great!
Thanks @matrixd2 for adding the Fob to the integration.
It is in development, but I do not have a schedule for it. Our engineers are mostly tied up with cameras and the X3 Hub, which will work with ethernet and/or 2.4 or 5GHz WiFi, with a cellular module slot, SpeakerHub features, audio output jack. I think it might have Matter support. But the biggest thing is the addition of HaLow WiFi, to support our new long-range cameras. This feature will add mesh capabilities to the hubs, as the YoLink network will be on a HaLow backchannel, as I understand it, possibly allowing for multi-mile network applications.
The local hub was going to run on hardware meant to handle video AI for new 5GHz LoRa cameras, but we went a different direction on cameras. There was been talk of a USB YoLink transceiver, that would work in conjunction with server software, so you can run it on your own machine. But this project is moving slow until the monster X3 Hub is released. I don’t want to speculate on a release date, as our new product roadmap changes often.
That’s a shame, and very different than what was said 18+ months ago. There are many of us that simply will NEVER use any YoLink device until there is a local API/control/access.
Neat devices, but I have zero interest in being trapped in your cloud based walled garden - for sensors at least. Cameras may be different, we’ll see.
To be fair, I guess this is “tecnically” true, although 100% misleading:
“This year” in that post being 2022… Sounds like it won’t be 2023 either. 
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@Eric-YoLink please include (and please respond to this):
- A standalone local control hub, many of us do not want to have to any additional dedicated compute hardware running 24/7…
- The ability to continue to use the third party alarm monitoring service if we switch over from the current online hub to the standalone (even if that means having to use both the old standalone hub and the new device at the same time, and then ignore duplicated devices in home assistant (if that is what happens - which we can easly do - I mean ignore or hide sensors in Home Assistan\t))…?
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