This is an ongoing effort to create a python library for Yeelight's bedside lamp.

Patches are very welcome, if you intent to contribute, please do note that quite a lot of the protocol is already figured out but lacking an interfaces.

Currently supported features:

• State
• color mode (white, color, flow)
• Temperature
• Brightness

TBD:

• Sleep mode, wakeup mode, scheduling
• Flow mode
• Other features?

pip install git+https://github.com/rytilahti/python-yeelightbt/

In case you are getting "No such file or directory" error for bluepy-helper, you have to go into bluepy's directory and run make there. It is also a good idea to let the helper to have capabilities for accessing the bluetooth devices without being root, e.g., by doing the following:

setcap cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+eip bluepy-helper

And then simply try if the scanning works.

Try

$ yeelight --help

and

$ yeelight [command] --help

For debugging you can pass -d/--debug, adding it second time will also print out the debug from bluepy.

$ yeelightbt scan
Scanning for 5 seconds
Devices found:
  f8:24:41:xx:xx:xx (XMCTD_XXXX), rssi=-83

To avoid passing --mac for every call, set the following environment variable:

export YEELIGHTBT_MAC=AA:BB:CC:11:22:33

$ yeelightbt

MAC: f8:24:41:xx:xx:xx
  Mode: LampMode.White
  Color: (0, 0, 0)
  Temperature: 5000
  Brightness: 50

$ yeelightbt temperature

Temperature: 5000

$ yeelightbt color 255 0 0
Setting color: 255 0 0

There is also a WIP Home Assistant component stored inside custom_components. Just copy the file over to ~/.homeassistant/custom_components/light/ and add the following into your config:

light:
  - platform: yeelight_bt
    devices:
      Bedside:
        mac: 'f8:24:41:xx:xx:xx'