For me their sensors have been reliable, responsive, and have great range. And they helped me solve some issues in the past. However, I have “cloud anxiety” about any device that requires someone else’s computer to function.
It’s US$200+shipping, which I feel is overpriced.
It’s supposed to provide local-only control and App support. I wonder if it’s truly local only, or does it still depend on their servers to add new devices and notifications. And obviously, does it have a local API for integration with HA?
I’m waiting for a response from Yolink.
And while I am still experimenting with the newer z-wave 800 series sensors that might be an alternative to Yolink sensors, the Yolink sensors have worked very well in harsher environments such as my freezers and attic. And it would cost me $$$ to replace the Yolink sensors with z-wave sensors and I still wouldn’t get the same temp operating range.
Yes, this is expensive, but I think of the times I’ve said “I’d gladly pay a bit more to own the data not be the data”, and decided this is one of those cases. I just ordered one through Amazon.
I just ordered one to give it a try, I’ve been begging them for this for over 2 years and told them I would pay good money for local control. I’m using yolink on my farm of 4 chicken houses and currently use one hub per chicken house as each house is 500 feet long and has metal siding. I wonder if this hub will talk with the others or if I will need one for each house?
I received mine today. It works in so far as I can see it in the Yolink app, create a “Local Network”, and attach devices to that network. Now we just need an update to the integration so we can access this info in HA! I’m more than happy to test such an update, if that would be helpful.
I found where to enable MQTT in the “Local Network.” Does anyone have a clue how to access the MQTT information?
Just got mine in and played with it a little. It looks like I will need one for each chicken house as it does not see my other hubs unless there is something I am missing. It appears that you can not have a sensor connected to both the local network and a the cloud. Tested one plug and got it working on network but it may have deleted the automation I previously had for it on the cloud. Also so far can not get it off the local network and back on the cloud.
Did do one test and was able to get a cloud sensor automation to trigger the local plug.
Ok I was able to re associate the plug to the cloud. It took a combination of time (hour or more) and possibly turning off the local hub. Then of course you have to turn plug on and off and maybe unplug and plug it in a few times.
Also it did delete the automations I had for this device so anyone adding this to an existing system be aware of that.