YoLink Integration

Thanks. I have no experience with the Yolink hub at all, so your understanding is obviously better than mine.

I'm no expert either.

I wish they would just release an official local API, or other local integration capability.

But such is life.

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Did some digging and it looks like they're delayed, but progressing toward a new hub that will supersede the hub 3 and support both Matter and local api connection (YS1606-UC).

The manual for the YS1606-UC has been found in the wild and you can see the Matter and Local API connection methods on page 34.

Unfortunately, I'm guessing this will be similarly priced at $100 USD (and who the heck knows how much for Canadians, no thanks to this stupid trade war we're now in).

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Yup, the repeatedly delayed new hub seems promising. Will be interesting to see what it can/can't do when released.

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For what it is worth, I have several yolink temp/humidity sensors that I really like for battery life and range including penetration of Fridge/Freezer. I have been messing with the API and MQTT connections via the cloud.

I am a fan of local and so I have been looking at the promised local hub. Well it turns out the release of the local hub is imminent. I got an email from their support and they said that it had been received in their warehouse and so should be released soon. They gave me the opportunity to buy one early and in theory (USPS) it is arriving tomorrow 2/18.

That said, I suspect that it may be a real challenge to get people excited because while it has a few things that are great (local control and backup power from a swappable Lion battery), it has several things that are less than great (API access, but no MQTT, price approx $200 US). Then it has a few things that aren't for me, but maybe matter to others. Subscription backup connection to the cloud via built in 4G.

They have update the API documentation to speak to local access. Those updates are at:

As I said, I got early purchase access at 50% discount if they do actually price it at $200 which I think is way too much given the rest of the smart home universe, but at least the local APIs breaks it out of their walled garden.

If I learn anything more surprising once I have it in my hands, I will post more, but I suspect most of my interactions will be via Node-Red as I have more dev experience there.

Oh, the Matter connections are described in the manual posted before, but I have not really done anything on that front, so have no opinion on either the implementation or the value of that.

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Thanks for the info.

It will be interesting to see the reality of it when it comes out. $200 is steep, but not crazy steep (in my opinion).

They make nice devices, so it would be good for everyone the more they remove barriers to implement (like relying on the cloud).

Here is the link to it. I'm going to hold out until a sale or until after local integrations start rolling out. At $100 it would be an instant buy/roll the dice. At $199 I'll wait and see.

But it is nice to see it finally happening!

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