Yeelight Ceiling light - No Connection since last Firmware Update

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1

Hi,

does anyone use the Yeelight Ceiling light?

I had it integrated into openhab until the last firmware upgrade. Since then i am not able to find it anymore.

Anyone experienced the same behaviour?

2

It would be helpful if you told us which binding are you using?
Is it the abandoned Yeelight binding that @coasterli once started?
Or the Miio Binding from @marcel_verpaalen?
If the second one, I’m not sure if you can use it without the token.

I’m still using the Yeelight binding because I struggled with getting the token from my unrooted Xiaomi phone :wink:

3

I’m using both bindings in my system. @coasterli for my yeelights and the Miio Binding for the vacuum.

Neither of them are finding my Ceiling light.

Steps i have already taken:
Reset of the Ceiling light
Removal of my Thing and Item definition
Ran the Discovery of both bindings

-> Ceiling lamp doesn’t appear again. My other RGB yeelights are still working

4

I am using the binding of @coasterli in my system.

Yeelight RGBs (FW 1.4.1_57) and Yeelight Stripe (FW 1.4.1_40) are found, Yeelight desk lamp (FW 1.3.0_52) and Yeelight Ceiling (FW 1.4.8_173) are not found.
I tried to add them manually, no success.
Has anyone succeeded in using Ceiling or desk lamp with the yeelight binding? Any hints are welcome!

5

My Yeelights will not go online.

21

items

Dimmer	WohnzimmerYeelight 					"Bright"				{channel="yeelight:Wonder:045652A6:Brightness"}
Color	WohnzimmerYeelightColor 			"Color"	<colorlight>	{channel="yeelight:Wonder:045652A6:Color"}
Dimmer	WohnzimmerYeelightColorTemperature	"Color temperature"		{channel="yeelight:Wonder:045652A6:Color_Temperature"}

sitemap

sitemap default label="Wohnung" {
	Slider 		item=WohnzimmerYeelight 				label="Wohnzimmer Licht" 			icon="light"
	Colorpicker item=WohnzimmerYeelightColor 			label="Wohnzimmer Farbe" 			icon="colorwheel"
	Slider 		item=WohnzimmerYeelightColorTemperature label="Wohnzimmer Farbtemperatur" 	icon="light"
}
6

Since my update onto this version of the firmware I cant use the ceiling light anymore via the binding.
Now i control them via Command line scripts. If you are interested i can send you some links.

7

They appear to be offline, as long as they are OFF. After you turn them ON they normally appear as Online

8

They are online. Check the entry above. I set the same ID in the second row.

9

Maybe you can’t use the same channel twice?

10

If I select another ID how to forward information to the Bulb? On miio you have to put the token of the bulb but at yeelight binding.

11

I think you have to remove the thing from miio and just use it via yeelight binding.

The id is from the bulb itself, you cant change it

12

Well I need to enter the Token to control it. If I set only the Yeelight Binding than I cant set the token and there is no control over the bulb

13

You dont need a token with the yeelight binding.

AFAIK the two bindings are using different discovery methods. With the yeelight binding you just need to enable the lan control.

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14

@Simsal Simon

I am interested in the command line scripts, please post the links!
Many thanks!

15

@Ren001
Hey Martin,

you can find the yeelight cli here:

you need to specify the ip address of your lamps. It would be ideal if you can assign them a static address via your router, otherwise you have to change the ip address everytime your lamps get a new one assigned.

example usage:

rule "Yeelight an-/ausschalten"
    when
            Item MotionStatus changed
    then
            if(MotionStatus.state == OFF){
                    executeCommandLine("yee --ip=192.168.0.87 turn off")
            }
            else if (MotionStatus.state == ON){
                        executeCommandLine("yee --ip=192.168.0.87 turn on")
            }
    end
16

Hallo Simon

Dankesehr/ Thanks a lot!

Can you give me a hint how to use the result of the rule in a switch?

I am currently using a switch like this:

Switch Yeelight4_Switch “Schreibtischlampe” (EG_Buero) {channel=“yeelight:Desklamp:0x00000000039cc1…:Brightness”}

I think it has to look somehow like this:

Switch Yeelight4_Switch “Schreibtischlampe” (EG_Buero) { yeelight=“192.168.1.7:55443#MotionStatus” }

Martin

18

I can try.

Please show the rules and also the relevant part of the logfile.

20

Hi,
try this:

rule “Yeelight”

when
        Item test changed
then
        if(test.state == OFF){
                executeCommandLine("yee --ip=192.168.179.57 turn on")
        }
        else {
                    executeCommandLine("yee --ip=192.168.179.57 turn off")
        }
end
22

Haa… interesting…

good you got it to work. I still would recommend to switch over to the mi io binding.

It is much more reliable.

24

@hartmood
Yeelight is in alpha support in the mi io binding.
Basic functions work, some may not. Your mileage may vary per model. Basic functions like on-off brightness etc will most likely work.

Mi io binding does not require a bridge.
You need to install the binding via the market place.