Are there any RGB controller that also have a channel for WW (warm white) and CW (cold white)?
I found this one of Amazon (Germany) https://amazon.de/dp/B075X8TJCD/ but doesn’t seems to be natively support by Home Assistant?
Are there any alternatives?
Google for “H801”, it is 5 channels and can be flashed with Tasmota and controlled via MQTT
what lights would you be using with it please?
Probably using 2 strips - one with RGB and the other with WW+CW.
Here are the Data Sheets (couldn’t find a english one)
WW+CC:
RGB:
Probably using around 2m maximum. How is the H801 connected? Via Wifi, right? So I just need to buy one, solder on the 6 Pins to flash it, flash it and then I’m ready to go?
Does Home Assistant can handle the RGB WW + CW correctly? My Hue also supports this in the UI so I assume yes.
The Milight FUT089 does support RGB + WW + CW and combined with a Milight Ibox controller it should work with Home Assistant using the LimitlessLED component.
This looking promising as well. So the FUT039 is the model with 5 channels.
Just one question: How to connect them? They use 2.4 Ghz so do I connect them to my WiFi or do I need the WiFi Bridge v2? Also the docs says something about v6 for the LimitlessLED Bridge but the Mi Light Bridge is only on v2?
I see I used the wrong item number. FUT089 is a remote. The FUT039 or the LS2 are the LED controllers for 5 channel LED strips.
They are 2.4GHz controlled, so you need an Ibox1 or Ibox2 controller which again talks to Home Assistant as a LimitlessLED controller.
Yes, the H801 is wifi and can be easily flashed. I don’t know how HA handles RGBWW lights, but it is plain MQTT Tasmota, not some custom component, I think you can find some info on the forum.
Thanks, just ordered 3 via Aliexpress. Will probably arrive in 2-3 weeks. Still cheaper than one FUT039 with bridge.
I’m still searching for a good strip. Found one that would match my claims but its 300€ for 5 meters, like wtf?
been testing a couple of these H801 devices for some weeks now.
They work fine with Home Assistant + mqtt. Do not use the HBMQTT server, Mosquitto or other is required.
I’m not sure yet is I prefer Tasmota or Espurna as the firmware in the H801…
Espurna is getting a tiny advantage, but still testing.
I would like to find out if any one has tried using the H801 for controlling a ‘normal’ COB led lamp ?
Any good tutorials for flashing and setting it up out there that you guys recommend? Looking to maybe try one out.
https://eryk.io/2015/10/esp8266-based-wifi-rgb-controller-h801/
most importantly : feel free to ask questions here.
For me, being on Windows, easiest flashing has been with esptool.exe from a command prompt - whether it’s for Tasmota or Espurna.
My H801 arrived today. Flashing was very easy. I was a bit confused with the amount of tools that I can use.
I end up with esptool as tool for flashing and flashed espurna.
Tool for flashing: https://github.com/espressif/esptool
Flash espurna: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna
or Flash Tasmota: https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota
did you have any trouble flashing & running Tasmota ?
Didn’t tried Tasmota yet. I choose espurna because you said this earlier: “Espurna is getting a tiny advantage” 
Does Tasmota support the color temperature of the white?
espurna doesn’t as you can see here: https://github.com/xoseperez/espurna/issues/695
@Skaronator
for me the rgb strip reacts to the “white-temperature-slider”, with espurna.
I must admit i didn’t read the whole github issue which you linked. I will experiment.
If you have the opportunity, would you mind flashing Tasmota to your new H801?
There seems to be an issue cropping up with recent devices, where they will not be flashed to Tasmota, but will accept Espurna… we need more data. https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/issues/2155
I’ll give it a try in the next few days.
The RGBW mode doesn’t work that well in espurna. If you set it exactly to white it’ll turn off the RGB LEDs but if it isn’t perfectly white it’ll instantly turn off the white. (Maybe this kind of issue would be fixed if I use it via HA over MQTT.)
I was assuming HA+MQTT…sorry.
Ah okay. The color settings in the Espurna web interface aren’t working perfectly.
I’ve updated the github issue. I was able to flash sonoff.bin
Edit: How did you configure the wifi password? The wiki says I should hardcore it while compiling or press the button multiple times and use a android app but the H801 doesn’t have a button.
Edit2: Got it working, looks like it is searching for WPS by default.