Yeelight is a smart lighting company described in press coverage as Xiaomi-backed. It makes Wi-Fi bulbs, light strips, lamps, monitor light bars and LED panels, plus a Pro line for whole-home lighting. Devices are set up in the Yeelight app, and some can also be driven over the local network.
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Most Yeelight lights have Wi-Fi built in and need no hub. Yeelight says the bulbs work with Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Samsung SmartThings, and turning on LAN Control in the Yeelight app lets the lights answer commands on the home network. Newer products add Bluetooth LE Mesh and Thread through the Yeelight Hub, which is reported to be Matter certified and to bridge Yeelight devices into Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and SmartThings.
That suits people who want inexpensive Wi-Fi lighting with local control from Home Assistant, openHAB or Homey, and who may later add the hub for Matter. It is less simple if you want Apple Home support across the whole range, because the pages we found tie HomeKit to specific older models, and Yeelight's own documentation for the local protocol is a separate specification rather than a full developer program.
Source: Yeelight Station page
The main app for Wi-Fi products. Yeelight's setup page says to download it, sign in, and add devices with the plus icon, then use it for scenes, light groups, music sync and device sharing. It is also where LAN Control is switched on, which Yeelight says speeds up local response and enables Google Home Local Execution. A Mi Account is used to link devices to Google Home, Alexa and IFTTT. We could not load the Apple App Store or Google Play listing for this app, so no store links are given. APKMirror lists it under the developer name yeelink, but that is not an official store.
Yeelight setup page APKMirror listing (not an official store)
For the Yeelight Pro whole-home lighting line. The App Store listing stresses local control and low latency, says the system natively accesses HomeKit, Google Home, Alexa, SmartThings, Matter and Xiaomi, and lists Wi-Fi Matter lights, Matter pairing, smart screens, curtains, air conditioning, sensors and ONVIF or RTSP cameras on the local network. Published by Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd. iPhone requires iOS 14 or later. We did not find a Google Play listing and could not confirm whether the app exists on Android.
A Windows desktop app (Windows 8 and later; Yeelight says it is not available for macOS). It finds Yeelight lights on the same network after LAN Control is enabled in the Yeelight app, and adds screen colour picking across multiple monitors and music rhythm mode. Supported devices include the Monitor Light Bar Pro, LED Lightstrip Pro and 1S, the Smart LED Bulb W3 (Color), 1S (Color) and GU10 W1 (Color), Smart Lamp D2 and Smart LED Panels.
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| Platform | Status | What it means | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connection | |||
| Wi-Fi | Yes | Yeelight's W3 bulb page says the bulb has built-in Wi-Fi, needs no hub, and lists IEEE 802.11b/g/n on the 2.4 GHz band. Other models may differ, and we did not check each product. | Yeelight W3 bulb page |
| Bluetooth LE Mesh | Yes | Yeelight's 2019 CES announcement described a BLE Mesh lighting range of bulbs, candle bulbs, downlights and spotlights that connect in batches through a gateway rather than one at a time. The Yeelight Hub, launched in December 2025, lists Bluetooth LE Mesh among its protocols. | Digit: CES 2019 announcement IoT M2M Council: Yeelight Hub |
| Thread | Yes | A December 2025 report says the Yeelight Hub works with Thread devices and acts as a Thread border router, and that Yeelight launched its first bulb with Matter over Thread, an 11 W RGBCW model. This comes from a news article, not a Yeelight page. | IoT M2M Council: Yeelight Hub |
| Zigbee and Z-Wave | Not found | Neither is mentioned on the Yeelight pages or in the reports we read. | Searched, no source |
| Yeelight Hub (multi-protocol gateway) | Yes | Described as Yeelight's first multi-protocol smart home gateway, using Wi-Fi, OpenThread and Bluetooth LE Mesh. The report says it supports more than 150 devices and keeps automations running over the local network when the internet is down. We did not find a Yeelight product page for it. | IoT M2M Council: Yeelight Hub |
| Matter | Yes | The same report says the Yeelight Hub is certified as Matter compatible, bridges Yeelight devices into Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and SmartThings, and controls Matter devices directly. The Yeelight Pro app listing mentions Wi-Fi Matter lights and Matter pairing and binding to iPhone. We could not confirm which consumer Wi-Fi bulbs support Matter, or the Matter version. | IoT M2M Council: Yeelight Hub Yeelight Pro (App Store) |
| Voice assistants and ecosystems | |||
| Google Home | Official | Yeelight's W3 bulb page lists Google Assistant. Its setup page says devices are linked to Google Home with a Mi Account and that turning on LAN Control enables Google Home Local Execution. | Yeelight W3 bulb page Yeelight setup page Google Home compatible devices |
| Amazon Alexa | Official | Listed on Yeelight's W3 bulb page, and its setup page says a Mi Account is used to link devices to Alexa. We found no dedicated Alexa setup page. | Yeelight W3 bulb page Yeelight setup page Alexa Skills store |
| Apple Home | Official | Yeelight's setup page covers adding to HomeKit from an iOS device and says the Home app cannot be used on Mac. A 2019 report names the Smart LED Bulb (Color), Smart LED Bulb (Tunable White) and Aurora Lightstrip Plus as HomeKit products, after a firmware update. Support is therefore tied to specific models, and we could not find a current list. | Yeelight setup page Ubergizmo (2019) Apple Home accessories list |
| Samsung SmartThings | Official | Listed on Yeelight's W3 bulb page. A separate SmartThings Edge driver made by a community developer needs LAN Control and the hub on the same network, and users in that thread report status problems. | Yeelight W3 bulb page Community Edge driver thread |
| Xiaomi Mi Home | Not mentioned | Press coverage calls Yeelight Xiaomi-backed and a Xiaomi ecosystem company, and the Yeelight Pro listing names Xiaomi among the platforms it accesses. Yeelight's setup page does not mention Mi Home, only a Mi Account for linking. We found no Mi Home setup page. | Digit: CES 2019 announcement Yeelight Pro (App Store) |
| Open platforms and developer access | |||
| Home Assistant | Yes | A built-in Yeelight integration, classed Local Push. LAN Control must be switched on in the Yeelight app first, and the page says there is no official way to change LAN mode, only community workarounds. It lists many tested models, offers an optional music mode that bypasses the bulb's limit of 60 requests per minute, and notes that some models may not be auto-discovered. Maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Yeelight. | Home Assistant Yeelight |
| Homey | Official | Athom lists an official Yeelight app for Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server. It connects through the cloud, covers China, EU and US servers, marks every device as needing a Homey Bridge, and was last updated about two years before our check. A separate community app by Bretislav Kubesa controls Yeelight Wi-Fi products over the local network and needs LAN or developer mode turned on; its listing does not mention a Homey Bridge. | Homey Yeelight app (Athom) Homey Yeelights LAN (community) |
| openHAB | Yes | A Yeelight binding appears in openHAB's add-on documentation, though the copy we read is the archived 5.1 page, so current status is unconfirmed. It finds lights by UPnP, needs Developer Mode (LAN control) turned on in the Yeelight app, and covers ceiling lights, colour and white bulbs, light strips and desk lamps. Maintained by the openHAB project, not by Yeelight. | openHAB Yeelight binding (5.1 archive) |
| Node-RED | Community | node-red-contrib-yeelight controls Yeelight colour bulbs over the LAN after developer mode is enabled, using UDP port 55443. The Node-RED library page shows it was last updated more than six years before our check, so it may be unmaintained. | Node-RED library |
| Hubitat | Unconfirmed | We searched for a Hubitat driver and found none. We could not confirm one exists. | Searched, no source |
| Domoticz | Unconfirmed | A 2016 post on Yeelight's forum by an independent developer describes a Yeelight plugin that it says was then included in the Domoticz beta. We did not read Domoticz's own documentation, so current status is unconfirmed. | Yeelight forum: Domoticz |
| Control4 | Unconfirmed | We did not find a Control4 driver for Yeelight in the pages we checked. We could not confirm either way. | Searched, no source |
| IFTTT | Official | Yeelight's setup page says devices are linked to IFTTT with a Mi Account. We did not open IFTTT's own Yeelight page, so the available triggers and actions, and any plan requirement, are unconfirmed. | Yeelight setup page |
| Yeelight developer access | Official | Yeelight publishes a WiFi Light Inter-Operation Specification for its local LAN protocol. In a 2018 reply on Yeelight's forum, a Yeelight staff member said it was up to date but that some properties are not for third-party use, so they are omitted. Community libraries build on it. We did not open the specification itself, and a user in the thread said it lacked some models and properties. | Yeelight forum: specification thread |
Checked 11 November 2026 against the brand's own pages, app store listings and each project's own page. “Not found” means we searched and found nothing, not that it is impossible. Compatibility changes often. Spot an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Yes. The same report says the Yeelight Hub is certified as Matter compatible, bridges Yeelight devices into Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa and SmartThings, and controls Matter devices directly. The Yeelight Pro app listing mentions Wi-Fi Matter lights and Matter pairing and binding to iPhone. We could not confirm which consumer Wi-Fi bulbs support Matter, or the Matter version.
Yes, officially. Listed on Yeelight's W3 bulb page, and its setup page says a Mi Account is used to link devices to Alexa. We found no dedicated Alexa setup page.
Yes, officially. Yeelight's W3 bulb page lists Google Assistant. Its setup page says devices are linked to Google Home with a Mi Account and that turning on LAN Control enables Google Home Local Execution.
Yes, officially. Yeelight's setup page covers adding to HomeKit from an iOS device and says the Home app cannot be used on Mac. A 2019 report names the Smart LED Bulb (Color), Smart LED Bulb (Tunable White) and Aurora Lightstrip Plus as HomeKit products, after a firmware update. Support is therefore tied to specific models, and we could not find a current list.
Yes. A built-in Yeelight integration, classed Local Push. LAN Control must be switched on in the Yeelight app first, and the page says there is no official way to change LAN mode, only community workarounds. It lists many tested models, offers an optional music mode that bypasses the bulb's limit of 60 requests per minute, and notes that some models may not be auto-discovered. Maintained by the Home Assistant project, not by Yeelight.
Yes, officially. Listed on Yeelight's W3 bulb page. A separate SmartThings Edge driver made by a community developer needs LAN Control and the hub on the same network, and users in that thread report status problems.
Yes, officially. Athom lists an official Yeelight app for Homey Cloud, Homey Pro, Homey Pro mini and Self-Hosted Server. It connects through the cloud, covers China, EU and US servers, marks every device as needing a Homey Bridge, and was last updated about two years before our check. A separate community app by Bretislav Kubesa controls Yeelight Wi-Fi products over the local network and needs LAN or developer mode turned on; its listing does not mention a Homey Bridge.
Unconfirmed. We searched for a Hubitat driver and found none. We could not confirm one exists.
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