# sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub

Replacement for a Milight/LimitlessLED hub hosted on an ESP8266

Repository: https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/esp8266_milight_hub
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: milight, limitlessled, home-automation, easybulb
Last push: 2025-02-11T04:37:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 26/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 6, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3505, "days_push": 568, "days_rel": 661, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1045, forks 246 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:21.440689+00:00)

## What it is
A firmware replacement for the Milight/LimitlessLED WiFi gateway that runs on an ESP8266 or ESP32 with an NRF24L01+ or LT8900 radio. It exposes a web UI, MQTT support, a UDP gateway, and a REST API for controlling Milight smart bulbs over the reverse-engineered 2.4 GHz protocol.

## Use cases
- control milight smart bulbs without the official wifi gateway
- bridge milight bulbs into home assistant via mqtt
- send UDP commands to milight bulbs from custom scripts
- replace a lost or broken limitlessled remote
- track and restore smart bulb state server-side
- sniff packets from existing milight remotes

## When to choose
- you own Milight/LimitlessLED/EasyBulb bulbs and want local, cloud-free control
- you want MQTT or REST integration with home automation platforms
- you have an ESP8266/ESP32 and a cheap NRF24L01+ radio

## When to avoid
- your bulbs use a different protocol (e.g., Zigbee, WiFi-native bulbs)
- you want a plug-and-play commercial solution without soldering or wiring
- you need support for radio modules other than NRF24L01+ or LT8900

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: iot, webhook, http-server, middleware
- domain: iot, self-hosted, hardware
- platform: embedded, iot
- tags: milight, limitlessled, mqtt, udp-gateway, rest-api, smart-bulbs, nrf24l01, wifi-gateway-emulator, home-automation, esp8266

## Member repositories
- sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub (main) score 26

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.440689+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:02:08.123574+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:21.440689+00:00, sha f11e5426fd81)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.