I only have the YoLink Local-Hub, but I will say that the (3) gate open/close sensors update pretty much instantly. I’m very impressed by the responce time - and I have one that is a good 75+ feet away in the far back of the yard on the rear fence gate and I have the hub in the basement. It works perfect. I also have a water temp sensor for the pool and that also works great.
Can you do me a favor? Can you see how often your pool temperature sensor updates in HA? I have the local hub integrated with HA via matter and the YS8015-UC X3 Outdoor Temp and Humidity Sensor only updates every three hours no matter what recording interval is selected in the app. Unfortunately this makes the local hub a completely useless investment for my application.
“I made entities from the data of each device in HA from the MQTT data.” - do you some steps on how to do this if you have time? Thanks
I use this for the pool temp: Yolink - 3YS8004. It appears the update schedule is exactly once an hour via MQTT.
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I used ChatGPT to help be with the MQTT information to json. Here are a few examples:
Gate open/closed:
ON
{% elif value_json.data.state == 'closed' %}
OFF
{% else %}
UNKNOWN
{% endif %}
Battery level of sensor:
{% set batt = value_json.data.battery | int %}
{% if batt >= 4 %}
100
{% elif batt == 3 %}
75
{% elif batt == 2 %}
50
{% elif batt == 1 %}
25
{% else %}
0
{% endif %}
Pool temp:
{{ (value_json.data.temperature * 9 / 5 + 32) | round(1) }}
This was the first thing I tested. But my results were the same as yours. They’re either identical or practically identical. Yolink sensors are just kind of slow in general.
I have sensors from Aqara and Moes that are basically as fast as sensors can be I guess. But I have some others that take almost a second or more to respond.
First world problem I know, but once I got a taste of near instant responses that takes like half a second, a full second was no longer acceptable lol.
Yeah i would say at least a second is common. It also seems like if the sensor sits for a couple hours, the first response is slower than subsequent responses.
I switched over to yolink for some sensors because of the distance ability. With zigbee i would get devices falling off that were in my detached garage.
Just for another data point… my YS8008-UC Pool Thermometer updates every 30 minutes when connected directly to the YoLink standard hub and integrated into HA with the YoLink integration.
Local Hub looks ridiculous useless. After upgrade firmware on sensors 3 weeks ago I have issues with 2 sensors that going offline after 3-5 hours. But last 2 days I also has some internet issues and have to disconnect it for 30 min twice. Today I send a message to YoLink support about offline sensors and support answer looks like a joke: “We’ve reviewed the reported data from your equipment and found that the associated Hub is frequently going offline, which can cause the YS7906-UC devices to lose connection intermittently. To resolve this issue, please try the following steps:
If your Hub is currently using an Ethernet connection, try switching to Wi-Fi (or vice versa) and observe the performance for a couple of days.” Really??? Yolink made a LOCAL HUB that CAN’T WIDSTAND 30 min lost of internet!!! What is the reason for local hub then???
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Or, even easier…: {{ value_json.data.battery*25 }}
Any updates or work around for speakerhub.
Spoke too soon. It seems that there was some Yolink update in core and now I’m not seeing the events from the button presses. Thoughts?
They promised local and never delivered. How DARE we take them at their word!
What do you mean? I’m using my local hub via matter locally.
And I’m using mine locally via MQTT.
is there any other way to need NODE RED in the mix to use MQTT and HA ?
So every once in a while I check the Yolink app to see if the Local Hub has new firmware. And today I finally see a new one which is 0608(I have 0606).
My first local hub bricked when it failed to update last Spring so I’m too scared to update lol. But I figure I’d post this and see if anyone else has done it already and what new improvements and features it brings if any?
After a few days I finally updated the local hub to 0608. Since they don’t have notes for their updates I have absolutely no idea what it does since everything looks the same as far as I can tell(not that I was even paying attention before).
I’m using this as a Matter Bridge in Home Assistant and all my devices look unchanged there as well. The siren alarm still doesn’t work and the Flex Fob still doesn’t appear in Home Assistant so I guess smart buttons are still not supported.
Maybe someone else can chime in because I don’t have a clue.
Put in a support ticket both here and at the Yolink sight