Yeelight Classic

An unskippable 5 second ad to turn my lights on is absolutely outrageous hahahaha

It shows 5s advertisement on the start! I just need to turn the freaking light on and you’re forcing me to watch your advertisement. I’ve paid already! Why should I watch your ads each time I need to turn the light on?

Sadly the this app is no longer stable and lights appear offline, causing Smartthings to also not pick the lights up. I've messaged support but had no reply. Used to work perfectly.

I can't even pair a bulb!!! When I touch network name field, jumps to settings and can't move to next step 🤬🤬

What happened to this? I have five colour Yeelights which used to work perfectly but now everything is chaos. The app sometimes shows that they are off when they are on and vice-versa but sometimes the app shows the correct status - so it cannot even be relied on to be wrong! Some of the Yeelights will not update their firmware. I don’t know if the app is at fault or the Yeelights but I just completely reset everything. So, the whole system is currently useless. [edit] I decided to try my Yeelight bulbs again and managed to update the firmware only to find that this app seems to have had half its functionality removed - I can't save anything and pages on the app are blank. I can use the Xiaomi app for some things but it takes two apps to do half of what one should do. Why does the app now require so many clicks just to dim a bulb? It would actually be quicker to take the bulb out and go and search for a different one in the garage!

This has always been, and still is, and awful app. It’s full of bugs. My first thought, why do I need an account and have to give my phone number just for a light? Second, it’s full of bugs. I can connect my device, but add a scene? Nope, device doesn’t pop up when wanting to assign he scene to it. The alarm feature doesn’t work, just doesn’t start an alarm. I think this may also have to do with the screen just completely glitching out, so maybe there’s an Invisible ‘confirm’ button I just can’t see. I have an iPhone 13 btw. But every phone I used before this had its own set of bugs with this app (owned my light since 2016). Lastly, it’s owned by Xiaomi. Go look up ‘Xiaomi Privacy Concerns’ on google to find out what they do. This app to no surprise asks for about 5 different permissions before being able to use it.

So many things that doesn’t work. I wish I never bought any products from yeelight.

Has stopped working with my Amazon Echo, I can only control from the Yeelight app now and cannot link my bulb to Alexa

Cannot pair bulbs as tapping the network name field redirects to the Settings app for some reason. Bulbs now practically useless.

Absolutely garbage app, can’t log in, can’t do anything. Complete junk, just like their crappy bulbs. Deleted the app and binned their bulbs, bought Hue that DOES just work.