We have worked on Echo & IFTTT support for quite a long time, after solving a lot of issues, we finally managed to ask Alexa/IFTTT to control Yeelight devices successfully.
Our Alexa Smart Home Skill “Yeelight” is still being reviewed/certified by Alexa Team and will be published after completing this process, this may take several weeks. Our IFTTT service “Yeelight” is also being reviewed and will be released soon.
For those who can’t wait any longer and also willing to help us verify our implementation by becoming beta users, please send a mail to "weiwei@yeelink.net" with subject “apply for Yeelight Echo beta testing” or “apply for Yeelight IFTTT beta testing”, you will receive a reply with the detailed instruction and some NDA related statement.
One important thing to note: we only support users who use Singapore server, so all beta users have to reset their devices and re-connect it to Singapore server (if you are not already connecting to Singapare), this may cause all your settings get lost, please consider it carefully before your decide to try it.
Please give us your feedback if you encounter some trouble or find some software issue.
Alexa doesn’t support color changing and color temperature changing, but fortunately, you can create scene and ask Alexa to turn on your scene.
The way to create scene is: open “Yeelight” app, goto settings and click “scene bundle / scene” and then adjust the lights (can be multiple lights) to the wanted state and click save. Give the scene a decent name, say “bedtime” and then re-discover devices on your Echo, the scene will be present in your device list and you can say “Alexa, turn on bedtime”, then all the lights will be changed to your defined state.
ah… , I got your point, you only have one Echo dot and works perfectly for all the services except Yeelight, right?
If that’s the case, could you try to disable and enable Yeelight skill and run discover for several times? Some UK uses do find it’s hard to run the discovery and they finally made it after several attempts. You may also try to switch the language to English (US) and try.
