Xiaomi Yeelight SunFlower an cheap alternative of the Philips HUE

captkiwi

Yeelight, a Chinese brand of smart light bulbs with functions similar to those of the Philips Hue.

The come in a pack of 3 with a bridge for the the price of  +/- 115 Euro

Its said that Xiaomi Yeelight is becoming a "Friend of HUE"
http://goldenbrand.finchannel.com/index.php/technology/item/52913-philips-collaborates-with-xiaomi-to-launch-a-connected-desk-lamp


API Info:
http://www.yeelight.com/en_US/info/download
https://github.com/sandeepmistry/node-yeelight-blue

rob_houweling

Interesting product!

But Xiaomi doesn't seem to be related to yeelight, they are launching a smartphone feature for use with a Philips EyeCare desk lamp (not hue AFAIK)

captkiwi

For my understanding they are but split up under a different brand name, i think  it have to do with marketing.
 Last year they where sold as xiaomi yeelights.

I own 2 lamps and there very good quality

http://item.mi.com/1154300013.html

But most important they do have an API :-)

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captkiwi said:

Yeelight, a Chinese brand of smart light bulbs with functions similar to those of the Philips Hue.

Its said that Xiaomi Yeelight is becoming a "Friend of HUE"

It seems they're already moving away from Zigbee, so I don't think it's likely they'll become a Hue partner.
If you go to the yeelight website there's only reference of a WiFi-bulb. After a bit of searching I found the page for the Zigbee-bulbs, which seems to be on an old website. The two products mentioned on that website are the Sunflower (Zigbee) and the Blue (BLE). On the Blue-page there a Q&A with the following question:

Q:What's the difference from the 1st generations? The 1st generation uses Zigbee, there should be a box works as bridge; The blue edition uses bluetooth, so it's simple.

Of course this is not an issue to make them work with Homey, because Homey can do it all! ;-)