How to use your Milight lights with Google Home.

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In this project, we will install the milights-bridge and ha-bridge on a Raspberry Pi. This will allow us to emulate Hue lights, when actually they are Milight/EasyBulb/LimitlessLED lights.

Once everything is set up, Google Home will recognise your lights as Hue lights, allowing you to use them with the Google Home.

As an additional extra, the miights-bridge comes with extra features such as

A visual remote control that works on any device (just browse to the web page)
A wake up light (set up the lights in a particular zone to gradually turn on at a specific time, to wake you up)
A disco mode (-disclaimer: does not yet work in this version, but it will in a few weeks) that changes your light's colours depending on the rhythm of the songs
A mood mode, allowing you to switch between two colours gradually until turned off
An API, that allows you to make your own widgets controlling your lights (for example, a turn on shortcut on your Android device)

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Step 1

Set up your Raspberry Pi. Open a command line, or open an SSH terminal.
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Step 2
Move into a directory you want to install the milights-bridge inside.
```
cd ./scripts/
```
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Step 3
Install milights-bridge
Clone the milights-bridge project from GitHub.
```
sudo git clone https://github.com/KevinVR/milights-bridge.git
```
Get into the milights-bridge folder
```
cd ./milights-bridge/
```
Ensure NodeJS and NPM are installed. If unsure, run the following commands.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm
```
Install the required dependencies (make sure you have NPM installed)
```
sudo npm install
```
Copy the example configuration file.
```
sudo cp config.example.js config.js
```
Modify the configuration to suit your needs, follow the instructions within the file.
```
sudo vi config.js 
```
or
```
sudo nano config.js
```
Turn on the Milights-Bridge software
```
sudo node server.js
```
You should see some output from the command line, such as:
```
Setting up EJS...
Initialising Milight bridge connection (version v6)
Checking for updates...
Setting up port 3000
milights-bridge is ready, please open your browser at http://192.168.1.60:3000
```
Open a browser page to the URL shown in the output.
```
http://192.168.1.60:3000
```
Test out the milights-bridge features, ensure it works

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Discussions

joey wrote 12/15/2018 at 16:00

I've got a problem. It seems that i have configured everything right. Somehow the buttons on the webinterface do nothing.. I don't see the lights go on or off. I do see the logging in the SSH console which does reply the buttons i click.. Via the milight app it does work..

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jobsmit1997 wrote 11/29/2018 at 22:58

ik kom er niet uit kan iemand mischien een video op youtube zetten

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Erwin wrote 09/13/2018 at 18:18

I get the web interface working, but when I try to add the hue on the Google Home is says There are no bridges on your network.

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joey wrote 12/15/2018 at 16:01

Hi Erwin, where did u configured the milight wifi ibox? I guess i'll mis that somewhere. In HA-Bridge somewhere?

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dimple007 wrote 10/21/2017 at 11:11

Hey,

Thanks for a very clear tutorial, on my RPI + milight setup i run into three problems though

1. the @reboot forever implementation does not seem to work, i guess a systemctl solution would solve this ?

2. the interface of the HA bridge has changed and it's not very clear how your settings fit into the new config fields, but got it to work eventually.

3. i cannot find the miight in home assistant. i've read on some sites, this is due to the update by google of the GA software. Can you comment if this is the problem with your setup as well, of if it should still work and i should keep looking to get it to work

thanks!

DimPle

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