Just a quick update re iBox2 (v6) bridge. It is actually working. I can control LED strips and bulbs through v6 binding. The problem was in a new version of LED controller, which is 8 zones compatible. Apparently 8 zones controller does not work with the binding at the moment (even if you use only 1-4 zones). However, I can control that 8-zone controller through a mobile app, which makes me to think that it is actually possible to tweak the binding to work with 8zones type controllers.
So to sum up:
v6 bridge cannot be auto discovered by the binding (you have to add it manually - donāt forget to specify its MAC address!!!)
v6 bridge can control 4zone type controllers (tested with a led strip controller and a RGBW bulb)
v6 bridge does not work with 8zone type controllers, however it might be possible to tweak the binding to add support for it.
Just so all understand it clear, this is a 8zone hardware:
milight adds new hardware bridges every year. It is correct that the 8zone bridge is not supported and probably use another or extended protocol. I will investigate the auto discovery if time permits. There were some changes recently, it might indeed be broken.
Hi, can someone please help me out with the mliight binding, I setup my v6 led bridge with my rgb light first which i was able to connect to openhab manually because auto discovery did not see it and after entering the v6 ip into the manual it picked up the rgb zone and my bulb worked with the sliders but i just added a dual white bulb to my bridge and it is not showing up on openhab auto discovery and I am a little nooby about the manual discovery as i just tried to go through the white option and put in the ip of the bridge but no luck.
Thanks in advance, Amit.
Hi,
I need your help please - I am also trying to bind Milight with OH2 wo success so far. In Paper UI, I added the bridge (manually since discovery isnāt working), I specified the MAC, added Group 1 as thing and linked it to the bridge. All appear online, but moving the slider of Group 1 (or All) does nothing.
I see this problem was solved, but I didnāt understand the solution - sorry but iām a beginner on this.
Could someone please explain the solution step by step?
@David_Graeff So Iāve also run into this problem of 8 Zones just now and found this thread which seems to have cooled down a bit. Have you found out anything so far regarding that issue?
Regards, Hammer
I developed the binding and v6 support but I do not own any of those bulbs or such a bridge. So I canāt help maintaining it or solve those issues unfortunately.
Hi everybody,
only to report that me too fall down the āunable to discoveryā with V6 binde and tried to add it manually
First time nothing was running even with the bridge correctly on line status; only inerted IP address and MAC
Second time, yesterday night, after a fresh new install of 2.1 OH
Same steps but this time I ovveride the port 5987 in the bridge configuration, even if default value
Donāt know if this was relevant but now I got, (recently last night) all RGBWW bulbs working and the led bundled with the wi fi box too.
The Simple switch in the ssytem menu help me adding things and channels, like instructions said.
About discovering, I found out that the wifi led binde discover the new wi fi box bridge
Hi @David_Graeff
Thanks for your work. Very appreciated. Iām using iBox2. No problem with auto discovery. Binding seems to be linked correctly. Is there a way to control LED strip? Iām using two strip rf controller model FUT038. MiLight application is controlling that hardware through iBox2 but Iām unable to control it with the binding?
Hello Elenio,
Iām trying to make working my iBox2 with a FUT038 Led Controller. Nothing was working after few weeks of test. I did a lot of install, uninstall, stable version, snapshotā¦ Name it I probably tried it I just decided to gave it a try to your proposition to override port 5987. Magic, I canāt explain it, but colorpicker is now responding. I used all RGBW things, so all my led strip are now responding at the same time. I hope I will be able to modify it to separate channel and keep it working. Last thing to do will be to control the white led on the strip.
So thanks for your post, I now think this manipulation is relevant to answer your question.
Is someone know what is this command (D0 00 00 00 02 4C 00), why it is sending to the bridge like this and how to stop that?
Thanks
Update: I think I found the answer by myself. D0 00 00 00 02 4C 00 is a kind of heartbeat and frequency could be control by a parameter in Paper UI. See below. I change the parameter to 60 and restart MiLight bundle to get a single communication with the bridge once every minute. I hope this delay is not too long, I donāt want to cause any other problem.
Here try this http://www.limitlessled.com/dev/
I also cannot control my white milight bulbs with openhab. I just use my white bulb as a normal led and I use my colored and white bulbs with openhab because they work but the white bulb is indifferent to any commands sent from openhab.
PS: everything works great (including) the white bulb through the milight app as long as you select the correct remote in the app.
Thanks. I have the exact same behavior with my strip LED controlled by FUT038 controller. I will wait about an update for the white led control. Following the link you sent me, the command should be [0x31,0,0,0x08,0x05,0x64,0,0,0,zoneID]; I donāt know if itās possible to send a direct command to the MiLight bridge through the binding or by any other way?
I just canāt get this binding working. Sorry, Iām a noob and trying everything to get it to work.
Bought the IBox2 and 4 RGBWW (FUT017) bulbs. With the mobile app it works ok.
If I try in OpenHab, I just canāt get it to work. Please help.
added manually the IBox2. Itās online and I get 11 things
connected things to some items, like a dimmer for brightness
Question:
Is it working out of the box, without linking to zones?
Or do I need to make a āLinkā switch in O.H. to link a bulb to a zone? Just like the official app?
Or do I ālinkā the bulbs to zones in the official app first, and then install the binding?
Or is it necessary to āunlinkā the bulbs in the official app, before using this binding?
If I use my selfmade dimmer item, it doesnā't work.
It also doesnāt work if I try to ālinkā the bulb (turn on the light and turn my selfmade ālinkā-switch to ON) .
If I look into the log file, I see: [ome.event.ItemCommandEvent] - Item āMLBulb_overloop4ā received command ON [WARN ] [nal.protocol.MilightV6SessionManager] - Command not confirmed: 18
What am I doing wrong?
Can someone please help me?
Sorry I donāt own a milight hub as I used an opensource one and wrote my own binding which is found linked below. I gave up waiting for Milight to release a hub that no longer has a 4 or 8 group limit. The opensource hub works great and supports all globes (AFAIK) and can still be used with the official Milight binding or you can use my binding which uses MQTT. I have 23 Milight globes all with individual control using the method in this linkā¦