Can ST do integrations between Ring and Xiaomi Yeelights & door sensors?

[JDRoberts]

@madmarko

hi all,

starting from a Ring, if I bought a SmartThings hub, would I be able to use it to integrate Ring, Xiaomi Door Sensors and Xiaomi Yeelights and do automations together?

Yes, but it is a much more complicated integration then if you were using a Hue bridge with hue lights, or the Osram Sylvania lights. And over time you may run into some problems with the sensors where they disconnect.

The Xiaomi sensors are popular because they are so inexpensive and they’re quite well built. But most of the models are not certified to the same protocol that SmartThings uses. This leads to two issues.

First, they are quite fiddly to get paired in the first place. And second, occasionally SmartThings makes some change which could cause all of them to stop working for a while. So far, that has happened two or three times, and the community developers have been able to get them working again, but there’s no guarantee because of the lack of certification. So you are taking a risk if you use is that at some point they will become incompatible with SmartThings. See the following thread to talk to people who are using the sensors:

[OBSOLETE] Xiaomi Sensors and Button (beta)

Following on from the thread here I’ve starting my own thread for my versions of the Xiaomi Motion, Contact and Smart Button device handler. This is so that people are able to find my device handlers easier and concentrate any discussion specific to my version of the handlers rather than previous ones made by others. I’ve kept the status as “beta” as the actual hardware do not claim official HA1.2 compliance and are very tricky to pair initially. However, once they stay successfully paired for a few hours, they have been proven over the last couple of months to be extremely reliable. However, I think it is fair to warn people that this is no guarantee that they will continue to work in the future. More information about pairing in the original thread here and here. I would suggest pe…

Yeelight Bulbs

There are two ways to use the yeelight bulbs with SmartThings. The first is just to use their IFTTT channel. This is fairly easy to set up, but may introduce some additional lag. And if you want the bulbs to show up on your things list or on a dashboard you will need to add virtual switch as proxies for them. So doable, but as I mentioned not as easy as other bulb brands.

Yeelight Integrations - Connect Your Apps with IFTTT

The other way is to set up your own “man in the middle” server device, typically a raspberry pi. This requires considerable technical skill. There are a few community members who have done it, see the discussion in the following thread. I think @davec has done most of the work on this code.

Xiaomi Yeelight RGBW E27

Has anyone manged to get the Xiaomi Yeelight RGBW E27 intergrated with Smartthings? I have a couple of them laying about and a rather large area to light on an automated timer. Obviously as they’re quite cheap (around £15) it would be great if there was support for them.

Ring

As for the ring doorbell, that’s the easy part: there’s an official integration.

https://www.smartthings.com/products/ring-video-doorbell-pro

Summary

So the answer is that you can, but it’s not a simple plug-and-play integration and it may not have the same long-term reliability as some other brands. But these are pretty well engineered very inexpensive devices available in both the US and the UK, so there are quite a few community members who are using them.