Configuring WLED with MQTT

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Hello,

I’m having some trouble with configuring my WLED in home assistant. What I am trying to do is adding WLED to my home assistant environment. The tricky part is that i am trying to do this using MQTT with detection disabled. I have set my home assistant IP as my MQTT broker

Here is my config.yaml:

light:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: “wled1”
    state_topic: “wled/light/status”
    command_topic: “wled/light/switch”
    brightness_state_topic: ‘wled/light/brightness/status’
    brightness_command_topic: ‘wled/light/brightness/set’
    brightness_scale: 100
    rgb_state_topic: ‘wled/light/rgb/status’
    rgb_command_topic: ‘wled/light/rgb/set’
    qos: 0
    payload_on: “ON”
    payload_off: “OFF”
    optimistic: false

And here is a screenshot of my WLED settings:

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The weird thing is that Home Assistant detects the entity in Lovelace and I can even add it, but when I click the “on” button nothing seems to happen. Sometimes the on switch works but my LED device won’t react to it (and neither does WLED).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Guys, i’ve found the answer. I was using a VM for my HomeAssistant environment and had to make sure the connection of the virtual machine was set to bridged. If you do this, your HomeAssistant can communicate with WLED.

I hope this helps someone someday.

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