deelight 1.0.4

Daylight mode for Xiaomi Mi Yeelight bulbs and lights.

Night shift script for Xiaomi Mi Yeelight lights and light bulbs.

Setup

Raspberry Pi

Download setup the latest version of Rasbian on your Raspberry Pi.

Next install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install python3 -y
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py

Deeelight

Install the Python package

sudo pip install deelight

and run the deelight command

deelight "New York, US" -v

Autostart

If you are running deelight on Raspbian or any other Debian system you can add a simple upstart script. It will be executed once your network is up.

sudo touch /etc/network/if-up.d/deelight
chmod +x /etc/network/if-up.d/deelight
sudo nano /etc/network/if-up.d/deelight

#!/bin/sh -e

## Replace this value with the correct city name.
# CITY="New York, US"
CITY=Valletta

PIDFILE=/var/run/deelight.pid

case "$IFACE" in
    lo)
        # The loopback interface does not count.
        # only run when some other interface comes up
        exit 0
        ;;
    *)
        ;;
esac

if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && \
   [ "$(ps -p "$(cat "$PIDFILE")" -o comm=)" == deelight ]; then
        exit 0
fi

deelight "$CITY" -vv >/var/log/deelight.log 2>&1 &
echo $! >"$PIDFILE"