Yeelight 2 - Connection Problem / Timeout FIXED
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- After a bit of luck while installing a second smarthome product... I accidentally fixed the problem I was facing with my XIAOMI Yeelight 2 not connecting. As it turns out the issue is the Router being set to 5Gzz and 2.4 Ghz. It needs to be set to 2.4 Ghz only to work.
Watch the rest of the video to hear me complain at length about XIAOMI.
Link to the Smart Power strip on Aliexpress. I'll post something if there's a fire in my flat over the next few weeks. I can't really see it being that useful in my own place but for Airbnb it'll be great.
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I had that same problem (connection timeout) and I finally fixed it. It is much simpler apparently.
All you need to do is disable auto-connect to the WiFi networks on your phone. That way there will be enough time for the bulb to connect to its own network for a few seconds.
What is happening when auto-connect is on is that it does not let enough time to the bulb to connect to the temporary yeelight wifi before reconnecting to your network.
Hope this helps.
not work :(
Worked for me, but before that you need to change your Mi Home region to China and Wifi to 2.4GHz
Помогло братан, в интернете не нашёл, а ты меня спас!
❤❤❤ It's many years later, and I struggled all day reading all kinds of things on Reddit and everywhere else and I came to this video course I didn't find the answer from yeelights! I come to this video and read your comment and I turn off the auto connect, and started crying with joy it worked like a charm! I didn't really cry, but I was so happy. I found out one of the light bulbs doesn't work it will not reset it just flashes colors once and then goes to white. But three of my four bulbs connected, in a matter seconds and you are my new favorite person!!
It works for me. Thanks !!!
in 2023, the issue is a mix of both this, and other stuff that took me a lot to find:
1- VERY IMPORTANT: check your router settings and search for the wifi security mode, this stupid device can't connect to a wireless network that has WPA3 security enabled, you need to change it to WPA2 only mode.
- Bonus -
If your router supports it, enable a guest network, this is better than switching to 2.4 GHz and WPA2 on all of your house for a stupid light, make that guest wifi network 2.4G, and WPA2 mode only, then enjoy your 5GHz with WPA3, and let that stupid light use the guest network.
If your router doesn't support guest network, you need to change the main wifi to the above settings, which is something I wouldn't do for a light :)
2- if you changed the wifi password or name, the stupid mi home app will remember your old password for the network, uninstall and reinstall again to make sure the local data is erased.
hope that helps, it took me 3 hours ;)
Thank you @Garion Bracken and @engi2nee
OMG, this really did work for me on my Yeelight Lightstrip 1. After all this time, when I was already prepared to modify the lights with an ESP32 and WLED. 🙈 Man, you deserve a medal! 🙏
Old but gold. I wouldn't say don't do the esp method btw. Even an esp01s with a relay hat would work. Super cheap and not crazy hard with tazmota or esphome. Glad my video helped :)
Upvote - this seems to have worked for me! I did also set my region to Singapore, so it's one or the other. I'll try switching back to my home region (Philippines) and see if that changes anything.
Thanks for the video, you saved me a lot of frustrations. I was really happy when my second Yeelight arrived, but I wasn't able to connect it in any way. Every time the same annoying error that the device was disconnected. Just logged in to my router, disabled the 5Ghz band, restarted my router and within 30 seconds I had the second light up and running.
Beauty! If you can live with 2.4 Ghz it's a decent product. I'm not really a gamer so in my case it's fine. Glad the video helped.
@@wangouthangout For me it's no real issue, indeed. I'm just wondering what will happen if I would enable the 5Ghz band again, now that the new Yeelight is connected and setup. Because my first Yeelight was working perfectly with both bands active. I'm wondering if disabling the band is only needed for the initial setup/installation.
had the same issue with my 2nd and 3rd yeelight bulb and the strip when i bought them together
what you need to do is use the 2.4Ghz only and if u got it in mixed mode disable it and just let it connect to 2.4Ghz
then on your yeelight app when it shows what wifi to connect to delete the wifi you got saved on the app and then select it again, Then try to set up your yeelight product . Worked for me like a charm since the first try.
hope it works for you guys and gals .
Hope it works for girls too, would hate to think they've been left in the dark
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This worked for me! Thank you!
Thank you for the fix!!!! I've been batling with this for days. Worked first time once I turned of 5G.
No worries Jaime glad I helped
@@wangouthangout it still doenst work for me, even when I turned of the 5G
@@M1and5M I'm not sure what to do then, it wasn't a comprehensive troubleshoot for the yiilight. There are myriad other problems with it. I still to this day can't get it to remain connected for longer than 2 or 3 weeks without needing to set it up again. I've stopped using it now and advocate against buying it.
If you read some of the other comments here a few people found other things that worked for them instead.
I have found a very quick and easy solution to this problem.
1. Go into the app
2. Click on the light with the connection problem (it will show it to be offline).
3. You will some information about how to connect it again.
4. Click "submit" at the bottom to send an error report.
5. Click OK, to send the report.
6. Your light will now work.
I have done this about 3 times, and it has worked every time. I think it forces the bulb to re-establish a connection with the router.
Mine working with these method, thanks man
I tried everything.. only thing what is working is change the region to Singapore. After that I resetted the Hub (GW) + all device and setted up again. It looks that is working fine yet :)
I had a Sky Q hub that combined 2.4 and 5gz, thanks for the guide this fixed my problem :)
Anyone having issues, switch wifi from 5ghz to 2.5ghz. that worked for me. I was stuck on it for a few hours :)
I was having issues also.. tried all the steps etc. In the end it was because I was simply NOT CLOSE ENOUGH to the bulb! I was standing directly below it and thought it was close enough but apparently not. Got up onto the table, held the phone RIGHT NEXT TO THE BULB and viola.. connection succeeded. Hope this helps
Did it work at a further distance after initial setup? They mention that you should have the router pretty close to the bulb in the instructions. I've had this thing disconnect probably 15 times and had much cheaper alternatives stay connected indefitely since I made the vid. I've given up on Xiaomi yi light at this stage.
doing this and other stuffs that people said on the comments worked for me. I didn't understand all the downvotes tho..
I forgot that I changed my wifi password recently. I updated the password on yeelight and the time out error stopped showing.
Glad to hear. Definitely wasn't my issue. In the couple years since I made this vid I've had the bulb disconnect from my wifi maybe every 2 weeks and need to be reconnected. At this stage it's just a normal light bulb, I'm fed up reconnecting it.
How did you change it?
Thanks man it's very useful when i saw your video !!
Thanks man
For those who have tried all the steps and stil see "Connection Timed Out". Go back to your device list and your Yeelight should be ONLINE again ever after the "connection timed out" message.
Try allowing location for the app. Worked for me (iOS)
Hey Garion! Great video, my new Yeelight 2 works great, keep it up! I hope to see more from this channel in the future :)
hey so i live in a student accomodation and my Mi LED smart bulb wouldnt connect to public wifi, so then i went ahead and got a linsys router EA2700. I connected it via internet and the bulb just wouldnt connect to the router. The bulb isnt that far from the router (maybe 1m). Ive tried all of the following fixes:
1) switched off 5ghz
2) Easy password with no special characters
3)Used mainland china as the server
4)Changed router DNS to google's
AND IT STILL WONT CONNECT. some one help please. Im missing on some mood lighting.
Sorry I've no idea why this might be. I remember my student accommodation had internet set up in a very restrictive way, if I were trying to set up smart home stuff back then I'd say it would have been a nightmare too.
Garion Bracken thank you for your reply. But is there something like if the product is bought from India, it’ll work only in India?
@@akshayshaji3894 Dunno man, I would say try find out on Google but that was exactly what was so frustrating when I was having problems with it initially.
I disabled the yeelight skill within the Alexa app and then re-enabled it and the problem seems to be solved
i cannot add second light, before I just tap the plus button on the top right and select add another device, but seems like they updated it, now the option is replaced by adding mesh connections, how stupid of them
Fixed it by changing my Wireless encryption to Auto from AES
When the eletric goes and comes, I can't connect to device. I need to reinstall it. Why does it happen? If it stays open until I turn back to home like one month? Could it burn the house?
I don't know but I get the same problem. I doubt it would catch fire.
I had the same problem...once I changed dns server to Google dns on my router.. Problem solved
How did you do that ? From modem screen ?
@@tarikgumussoy3368 yes
I fixed this problem by unscrewing and screwing the bulbs again
Technically switching the power off and on at the switch should fix it too then
it does not work for me...
Sorry to hear that. Like I said it's not a catch all troubleshooting video for fixing the yeelight
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Device not adding on yeelight app please solutions
rtfm... thought you might address the connection problems and not your user failure. I do have 2.4Ghz and those bulbs ain't working at all... Tried so many things like changing the Wifi-Name & passphrase, using explicit google DNS reset the bulbs each like a dozen times. And nothing works timeout all over...
Well like I said. It's not an in depth how to fix every problem video. I did explain the fix in the description
But yeah, they're not there yet I'd say.
@@wangouthangout Sorry for the tone... I was pretty annoyed yesterday. I had to use the Mi Home App (first I used the Yeelight app - stupid me ;)) and choose the Korea Servers because somehow the Servers in Europe won't work for me... After all that I could access the bulbs via the manual config. Not that hard wasn't it? Just had to think logically...xD
My problem is more that my router offers a combined 5 Ghz and 2.4 Ghz mode. And the app didn't say change to 2.4 Ghz only.
Some users won't have a clue about changing the frequency of their router. I guess my video is for a pretty specific group of users.
Garion Bracken yeah they should point that out more, because 5Ghz is almost like the standard today. I guess they use 2.4 because the signal can go further.
I'm having the same problem, they worked perfectly for 3 weeks, now after an internet problem they have stopped working.
I have a ZTE router, 2.4 and 5g, if I change to just 2.4, this will be a problem for all my Google homes and chromecasts on the 5g.
Any ideas?
Can I switch to just 2.4 temporarily, install them, then switch back to both?
Worth a shot. Mine is installed in my Airbnb abroad right now but I'll try it out next week. From what I remember though I had to leave it on 2.4 GHz mode
Hey Richard, I was setting up an access point for my mum's house so I have internet from my room when I'm back visiting and it gave me an idea for you. You could buy a cheap 2.4Ghz router and just connect it to your main router via lan. Leave the old one running 5GHz/2.4GHz mode and have the AP set up for 2.4GHz and run the Xiaomi lights through that... It should solve your problem
@@wangouthangout Thank you for that idea, I have a spare adsl router. I'll give it a try. These lights shouldn't do this, they have been a real pain. Maybe 2 more Phillips hue instead.
@@richarduk Did it work when you switched back to mixed mode?
@@erminc There is a very easy solution that works every time.
If your lights go offline, just do the following.
1. Click on one of the lights
2. Click submit error report at the bottom
3. When submitted, check your lights.
4. Try again, if they are not working. You may need to do this 3 or 4 times.
5. This method works every time, there is no need to tinker with your router settings.
It must force a reconnection, is my best guess on why this works.
Could the reason be region problem?
Maybe, but my fix works without altering the region settings so also maybe not. I have heard that xiaomi products work better with China chosen as the region.
To be totally honest after a couple years using this thing I wouldn't recommend it. Every time my router is restarted the bulb disconnects and needs to be manually reset.
didnt work for me, any ideas ?
I eventually gave up on them and started smartifying my existing lights with sonoff mini devices. They can be set up to not turn off when the actual light switch is turned off. Some commenters suggested changing region to China.
@@wangouthangout i tried all regions, the problem that i have a few of them .
@@wangouthangout thanks for your recommendation
stop talking trash, only focus on the issue,
Who's the one talking trash Mustafa? Video's like 5 years old now. If you don't like it just click next.
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