esp8266_milight_hub
Replacement for a Milight/LimitlessLED hub hosted on an ESP8266 (by sidoh)
espmh_pcb
Gerber files for an ESP8266 MiLight Hub PCB designed by h4nc (by sidoh)
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| 13 | 1 | |
| 925 | 21 | |
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| 4.4 | 10.0 | |
| 5 months ago | over 4 years ago | |
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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esp8266_milight_hub
Posts with mentions or reviews of esp8266_milight_hub.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Relay with decoupled mode and fallback?
So, I have a few proprietary RF smart lights all around the house. I control these using an ESP project I found in Home Assistant. The problem I'm running into is kids turning off the lights from the switches. I figured the solution would be running relay switches for the smart lights since I want to install some for the dumb lights either way. I read up somewhere that you can run some relays in something called decoupled/detached mode, which allows them to send their state to home assistant, which can toggle the smart bulb.
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LED WiFi Switch
Using this hub, they work well for controlling WLED (or non WLED) lights, but do take a bit of configuring getting all the buttons configured.
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Aesthetic light remotes
Alternatively, you can DIY a MiLight hub that connects to HA via MQTT, and use any of the MiBoxer/MiLight remotes if they fit your needs.
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Can a smart light switch be powered by a battery?
The easy option is to just get a Zwave or Zigbee remote. With a hub running Zigbee2MQTT or Zwave2MQTT, you can translate the button presses to MQTT and trigger your Tasmota devices. Alternatively, you could set up a Milight hub (which also translates button presses to MQTT topics) and use any of the commercially available Milight remotes as inputs.
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Xiaomi Mi Computer Monitor
The controller puck uses a 2.4GHz RF signal to control the light. I'm just guessing, but I would imagine you should be able to pick up the RF signal from a Milight hub like this. (I use a few Milight RF remotes connected to a DIY hub to control lights through HA.)
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are there any zigbee, zwave or wifi rgbw remotes out there?
(These do require a 2.4GHz RF gateway. You can buy the standalone gateway, build your own, or buy a premade version.)
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Remotes for light control
Anyone have any suggestions? I would prefer Zwave or 433MHz RF based (I have dongles for both attached to my HA box), but open to Wifi or Zigbee for the right solution. Anything cloud based is a hard pass. Same with BT, unless there is a cheap hub, or something I can DIY. (I already have a few ESP32 BT proxies running Tasmota or ESPHome.) IR is less than ideal due to line-of-sight restrictions. I was thinking about setting up this on an ESP8266, paired with one of these Milight remotes, but before putting in an AliExpress order and waiting weeks for delivery, does anybody have any other suggestions? Would this or this work with my 433MHz SDR running RTL_433? The giant antennas were a little off-putting.
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Not too smart LED panels
I also looked at milight hub with an esp board.
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ZigBee-RF USB bridge for Mi-Light White?
If someone could specifically confirm/deny that the Gledopto bridge works with White bulbs would be great. People have created custom controllers for the White bulbs/remotes (e.g., here) - so I assume the protocol is known or the same.
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Stuck on finding an RGB+CCT controller that works with Home Assistant and physical remote
Before binning off the Milight controller perhaps try this open source hub: https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub
espmh_pcb
Posts with mentions or reviews of espmh_pcb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-30.
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are there any zigbee, zwave or wifi rgbw remotes out there?
(These do require a 2.4GHz RF gateway. You can buy the standalone gateway, build your own, or buy a premade version.)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing esp8266_milight_hub and espmh_pcb you can also consider the following projects:
esphome - ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
dscKeybusInterface - An Arduino/esp8266/esp32 library to directly interface with DSC security systems.
OpenMQTTGateway - MQTT gateway for ESP8266 or ESP32 with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02, LYWSD03MMC, Mi Scale, TPMS, BBQ thermometer compatibility & LoRa.
IRremoteESP8266 - Infrared remote library for ESP8266/ESP32: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols. Based on: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote/
deconz-rest-plugin - deCONZ REST-API plugin to control ZigBee devices
rtl_433 - Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)
adaptive-lighting - Adaptive Lighting custom component for Home Assistant