my kids have a led strip in there room with one of the magichome controllers ran by a bl602. we noticed last night that the bl602 ship had died and it draws 1 amp and gets hot when connected to my bench supply. since this has all the mosfets/components to drive the leds can i just adapt one of the many esp01s i have after removing the dead BL602?
The magic 8 ball says: “probably”.
How good are you at messing with electronics?
WLED is worth looking into as an alternate controller. It works very well with Home Assistant.
Though the minimum hardware id an esp8266.
hardware wise im great. software not so much lol. i microsolder all the time but have no idea on how to code the esp to do the task
ok ill look into tracking down a guide, just realized these are just rgb leds also
so i have installed wled and setup for pwm leds. i just cant figure out the pins to use. i have one channel connected to the pin labeled rx and that one works fine with the app. if i try to connect the remaining two to tx/gpio0/gpio1 it refuses to boot
i ended up switching the esp to a dump controller as the previous controller that bl602 had alot of extra resistors keeping the transistor pulled low and causing the no boot when i tried to use tx or gpio1. this controller didnt have that and worked first try