Xiaomi Yeelight support - TCP requests to use \n \r

[mihaifireball]

I have a Yeelight bulb, which was working fine with ha-bridge v3.5.1, but with the latest versions (4.1.0) I cant make it work.
For example, in the v3.5.1, power on command was:

tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{\"id\":1,\"method\":\"set_power\",\"params\":[\"on\"]}\r\n

Which will be the syntax for ha-bridge v4.1.0?

Thank you!

[bwssytems]

Yep, #296, asked for this as well

[mihaifireball]

So, as I understand, it is not working anymore in the latest version?

[bwssytems]

Is there an error message that occurs in the log?

[mihaifireball]

No, there is no error in the log, and the webpage confirms that the command was successfully executed (green popup).
This is the entry from device.db:
{"id":"7","uniqueid":"00:17:88:5E:D3:07-07","name":"White Light","mapType":"tcpDevice","deviceType":"custom","offUrl":"[{\"item\":\"tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{\\\\\\\"id\\\\\\\":1,\\\\\\\"method\\\\\\\":\\\\\\\"set_power\\\\\\\",\\\\\\\"params\\\\\\\":[\\\\\\\"off\\\\\\\"]}\\\\r\\\\n\",\"type\":\"tcpDevice\"}]","onUrl":"[{\"item\":\"tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{\\\\\\\"id\\\\\\\":1,\\\\\\\"method\\\\\\\":\\\\\\\"set_power\\\\\\\",\\\\\\\"params\\\\\\\":[\\\\\\\"on\\\\\\\"]}\\\\r\\\\n\",\"type\":\"tcpDevice\"}]","inactive":false,"noState":false}

It seems that there are a lot of backslashes...

[bwssytems]

That entry is pretty bad. Did you cut and paste from somewhere?

[mihaifireball]

Yes, from a notepad file, but I did the same thing with the previous version of ha-bridge and there was no problem.

[bwssytems]

Well let's create a new device by typing it in manually. It seems there are too many escapes

[bwssytems]

To create your device, type the tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{"id":1,"method":"set_power","params":["off"]} and see if that has less escape \ characters in it

[mihaifireball]

I made it work finally, but only by editing the device.db file. Here it is what i found:
the working entry in the device.db file is:
`"offUrl":"[{"item":"tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{\"id\":1,\"method\":\"set_power\",\"params\":[\"off\"]}\r\n","type":"tcpDevice"}]"

So, if i use the web interface i had to add this entry:
tcp://10.100.1.60:55443/{"id":1,"method":"set_power","params":["off"]}\r\n
but the problem is that \r\n is translated in "\\r\\n", instead of "\r\n" in the device.db file.

[bwssytems]

@mihaifireball I don't think you need the \r\n at all in the call since this is pure tcp

[mihaifireball]

If i remove it, it doesn't give me any error, but the light bulb is not reacting.
I think this issue was discussed here, too #153 .

[bwssytems]

Now I remember, will look at the encoding when devices are saved.

[mihaifireball]

This issue is not fixed, right? because i still have to delete manually 2 backslashes before \r and two before \n on 4.1.4 release.

[bwssytems]

No updates to this yet

[darth-hp]

I created some shell-scripts to play with the Yeelight and use them as wrappers inside HA-Bridge

[bwssytems]

@mihaifireball The next version of ha-bridge will support \r \n and others