Controlling Phillips Hue Lamps with Milight RGBCCT FUT089 / Fut092 / B4 Remote Possible?

[mozzhead164]

Hello community / @sidoh, I am trying to set up a system where I can control Phillips Hue spike lights (lily spot) with a Milight remote control.

I have set up a milight hub on an esp8266 d1 mini for which I have created a little custom motherboard which makes connections for the RFL2401 module and a dedicated 3v3 reg for the radio.

I have tried both 1.11.2 and 1.12.0 firmware but the firmware is not the problem in this case, everything is working fine. I have set up MQTT and can see messages coming through correctly when i set up a terminal and subscribe to the topic I have set up on a mosquitto broker.

I have set up diyHue version 1966117030 on a raspberry pi 5 and linked it to the Hue Essentials app along with the legit Phillips Hue Hub. Both sets of lights (Phillips Lily spot and a test RGBCCT strip with FUT0037 3-in-1 controller) work in the hue essentials app when i group them together, although I get very little control (only on/off works in the top right corner) in the diyhue interface.

My question is, are there particular topics i need to set up for the mqtt messages to be forwarded to the Hue bridge? I just cant seem to get this to work. I have verified my device ID for the remote I was testing (FUT089) which is 0x91FE

I have tried a few different topics in the Discovery prefix in diyhue such as

• milight/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id
• milight/0x91FE/fut089/+
• milight/state/0x91FE/fut089/2/
  ...and a few other variations.

What am I doing wrong here?
I would suspect I would only need to set up a "MQTT state topic pattern" so that only physical remote pressed are forwarded to the broker. But these messages must follow a particular format and (obviously) sending to the correct topic also.

Please can someone help me out? 👍

192.168.1.230/about

{
    "firmware": "milight-hub",
    "version": "1.12.0-beta1",
    "ip_address": "192.168.1.230",
    "reset_reason": "Software/System restart",
    "variant": "d1_mini",
    "free_heap": 18720,
    "arduino_version": "3.1.2",
    "free_stack": 1192,
    "flash_used": 7781,
    "flash_total": 957314,
    "flash_pct_free": 99,
    "queue_stats": {
        "length": 0,
        "dropped_packets": 0
    }
}

192.168.1.230/settings

{
    "admin_username": "",
    "admin_password": "",
    "ce_pin": 4,
    "csn_pin": 15,
    "reset_pin": 0,
    "led_pin": -2,
    "radio_interface_type": "nRF24",
    "packet_repeats": 50,
    "http_repeat_factor": 1,
    "auto_restart_period": 0,
    "mqtt_server": "192.168.1.232:1885",
    "mqtt_username": "*******",
    "mqtt_password": "***********",
    "mqtt_topic_pattern": "milight/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id",
    "mqtt_update_topic_pattern": "",
    "mqtt_state_topic_pattern": "milight/state/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id",
    "mqtt_client_status_topic": "",
    "simple_mqtt_client_status": false,
    "discovery_port": 48899,
    "listen_repeats": 3,
    "state_flush_interval": 10000,
    "mqtt_state_rate_limit": 500,
    "mqtt_debounce_delay": 500,
    "mqtt_retain": true,
    "packet_repeat_throttle_sensitivity": 0,
    "packet_repeat_throttle_threshold": 200,
    "packet_repeat_minimum": 3,
    "enable_automatic_mode_switching": false,
    "led_mode_wifi_config": "Fast toggle",
    "led_mode_wifi_failed": "On",
    "led_mode_operating": "Slow blip",
    "led_mode_packet": "Flicker",
    "led_mode_packet_count": 3,
    "hostname": "milight-hub",
    "rf24_power_level": "HIGH",
    "rf24_listen_channel": "HIGH",
    "wifi_static_ip": "192.168.1.230",
    "wifi_static_ip_gateway": "192.168.1.1",
    "wifi_static_ip_netmask": "255.255.255.0",
    "packet_repeats_per_loop": 10,
    "home_assistant_discovery_prefix": "milight/light/:device_id/light/config",
    "wifi_mode": "g",
    "default_transition_period": 500,
    "rf24_channels": [
        "LOW"
    ],
    "device_ids": [
        37374
    ],
    "gateway_configs": [],
    "group_state_fields": [
        "state",
        "brightness",
        "mode",
        "color_temp",
        "device_id",
        "group_id",
        "device_type",
        "color_mode"
    ]
}

[sidoh]

I'm not super familiar with diyhue so not sure how helpful I'll be without more detail. If you tell me what you want to happen when you press a button the remote at the MQTT layer I can probably be more helpful.

This noisy section of the README might be helpful: https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub?tab=readme-ov-file#updates

home_assistant_discovery_prefix is specifically for homeassistant's mqtt discovery functionality. Not sure it's helpful for your usecase.