Yeetlight

Yeetlight is a lightweight Yeelight smartlights web control panel.

It was created as a way so that I wouldn't yeet my lights when interacting with their official smartphone app.

Features

Remote control of the Yeelight/Xiaomi smartlights including:

• power on/off
• brightness
• color temperature
• RGB support (albeit ugly)
• multiple lights linked to each other and acting as a larger setup

Additional features:

• simple UI
• self-contained
• full controls of multiple smartlights in a single panel; no subpanels per light as in the official app
• responsive web design

Dependencies

A reasonably new Rust compiler is needed to build the application.

Usage

Before running the build you may want to edit public/config.json according to the intended smartlight setup. This file will get embedded into the resulting binary, though it's possible to override it with --config some/path/config.json.

Build and run with:

$ cargo build --release
$ ./target/release/yeetlight --iface 0.0.0.0:8080

The --iface … argument may be omitted if the above example is the intended value, i.e. exposing the control panel on all network interfaces on 8080 TCP port.

Open http://localhost:8080 in a web browser.

Configuration

config.json should contain a JSON object with a bulbs key contain a list of bulbs. Each bulb has one of the following forms:

• named bulb

    "Bulb name": {
      "addr": "192.168.xxx.xxx"
    }
  

• anonymous bulb (the address is also the name)

    "192.168.xxx.xxx": {}
  

If a bulb is a part of a larger setup, it may contain a linked key with a list of names of other bulbs that will follow its state (controlled with a checkbox):

"192.168.xxx.xxx": {
  "linked": [ "Bulb name" ]
}

…or more verbosely (and with the checkbox pre-checked):

"192.168.xxx.xxx": {
  "linked": [
    {
      "name": "Bulb name",
      "enable": true
    }
  ]
}

To enable the RGB capabilities, add "rgb": true to the bulb's config.

Security considerations

Yeetlight was written with the assumption it's being run inside a fully trusted network on a device like Raspberry Pi, so no authentication is used at all. The bulbs themselves are not protected either so as long as Yeetlight is accessible only from the same network the bulbs are, it shouldn't create any additional security risks.