Yeelight offers some of the most affordable versatile smart lighting products on the market today. A Xiaomi sub-brand, you can get a Yeelight smart bulb for half the price of a Philips Hue smart bulb. However, Yeelight products sometimes don’t work out of the box perhaps because the company is Chinese.

I got myself the Yeelight Smart LED Light Bulb from Aliexpress although the same product is available on Amazon for just $8. I had challenges setting it up, but after several trials and searching for solutions in the forums, I was successful.

Setting up the Yeelight light requires downloading and installing the Yeelight app and an internet connection. The trouble comes when connecting the bulb to your WiFi router to complete the setup process. After several trials, my Yeelight wasn’t connecting to my WiFi router. However, I finally managed to get it to connect. Here’s what I did;

If you still have trouble setting up and connecting your Yeelight to your WiFi router, make sure you restart your router. Then you also reset the Yeelight by switching it on and off 5 times in a row. With your WiFi router restarted and setup as mentioned above and your Yeelight factory reset, you can try the setup process once again. Chances are that it will work. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments below.