Hue Emulator inconsistent in controlling Yeelights

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I’m running hue-emulator on a raspberry pi 4 and 8 yeelight devices running latest firmware (1.4.2_0050) that have static assigned IP’s and are currently added to hue-emulator. I am encountering a problem when attempting to turn on lights all lights (8), or all lights (3) in a group i.e. Living Room from the DiyHUE Light Control UI or Hue app in which only some of the lights would turn on. I am able to turn on/off repeatedly all lights from within the YeeLight app. Directly from the PI, I ran a packet capture for port 55443 traffic while turning on ALL (8) lights from DiyHUE UI and there were only 4 packets containing the “set_power” method which coincided with only 4 lights turning on. However there are lots of get_prop requests and . The config.json file contains all 8 lights with the correct static IP addresses. I have turned off all lights and restarted hue-emulator service and retried however the behavior persists.

What is the probable cause for performing functions such as powering on all devices being sporadic?

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Probably due to yeelight api rate limits.

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Even though other apps that call the API are able to control all lights with consistent results?

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What are those other apps? The Yeelight app uses some special api that doesn’t have rate limits.

Regarding 4 packets being transmitted… That seems peculiar.

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Google Home and Apple Home apps. I’ve since removed them yet same inconsistent issue. I’ve also sent the commands directly to the API