I ran into the same issue yesterday.
I was able to link my YeeLight White Light to my home router. I took that light to a friend’s house to see if it would work with their Alexa. I was never able to get the YeeLight to connect. It started at 25% and then stopped. I reset the light multiple times and I was never able to connect to a different router. I took the bulb home and repeated the process. Same thing. I saw 25% and the light never connected.
Then, the YeeLight appeared on my app just like when it was previously set up. The only thing that comes to mind is that I did not ‘UNPAIR’ my light before I tried to connect it to another router. I would hate to think that there is no work-around for that? Maybe the previous connection setting were still saved in the bulb?
UPDATE 1/3/2018: I tried this again. Now I cannot connect my YeeLight to my app after multiple resets and attemptes. I have logged in and out. Deleted and Re-downloaded the app. Nothing seems to work now.
Im having similar issues with my 5 bulbs today. It disconnected from the network and I can’t seem to connect them again even after using the usual steps to reset.
They are connected to my account and have been working fine for the past 3 months. I recently connected them to Google assistant. That has been the only change.
I am also about to purchase another 20 bulbs for my home/office use. They are amongst the last few pieces in Malaysia and the distributors mentioned that there is no more white Yeelights in production.
Kindly advise
- Is there any issue with the Sg server that caused my sudden issue?
- How do I reset and reconnect them if the usual “3*off/on” doesn’t work?
- Will the functions of the app no longer support the white bulb in the near future?
- Are you phasing out the 4000k white bulb?
- Should I NOT proceed with my purchase and wait for a new product for white bulbs?
Hope to get a prompt reply…
I have the same issue. I got my first test Yeelight color as a test to possibly replace my lifx bulbs.
Connected the bulb and ran the setup. After specifying my 2.4 wifi network and then connecting to the bulbs wifi I got to the 25% progress bar and then it failed.
got my backup airport express and created a separate wifi network to exclude my asp modem/router as the problem. This did not help. So I suspect my wifi is not the problem.
In one of the comments it said to try and ping http://ot.io.mi.com 77.
Now I do not know how to ping to a specific port but the http://ot.io.mi.com adres could not be resolved I tried Germany server and china mainland server. Nothing seems to help.
What I find strange that my lifx bulbs also seem to have the same connecting problems as the Yeelight.
I too am planning to change my entire home automation with yeelight and other sensors, but so far this has not been a flawless thing. Could someone help me to resolve this?
Just tried the hotspot solution. No go on that.
Also tried to change the dns settings in my router. Even added a manual dns on the bulb connection.
Nothing is working.
This is turning out to be a very disappointing purchase.