Esphome - Transition Stepping

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Hey guys - I have an esphome wake-up light that transitions on over 15 minutes; however, I notice that it SEEMS like the stepping it uses is something like increase 3% every 30s (or something like that) - which when your as tired as I am in the morning feels agressive. Does anyone know if there is a way to control the step timer (ie. make it more granular) in esphome? I read through the docs and I couldnt see anything.

Alternatively, I used to do this with fanlinc light using AppDaemon and it was WAY more subtle in transition. May have to go back to that.

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Can you paste your config?

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output:
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_red
    pin: GPIO4
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_green
    pin: GPIO12
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_blue
    pin: GPIO14
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_warm_white
    pin: GPIO13
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_cold_white
    pin: GPIO5



light:
  - platform: cwww
    name: $device_name
    id: $device_name
    cold_white: output_cold_white
    warm_white: output_warm_white
    cold_white_color_temperature: 6536 K
    warm_white_color_temperature: 2000 K
    default_transition_length: 0.5s

From Node-Red, the data is basically

{"transition":900,"brightness":200,"color_temp":500}

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Try increasing the pwm frequency.

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Ah ok so something like?

output:
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_red
    pin: GPIO4
    frequency: 1100 Hz
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_green
    pin: GPIO12
    frequency: 1100 Hz
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_blue
    pin: GPIO14
    frequency: 1100 Hz
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_warm_white
    pin: GPIO13
    frequency: 1100 Hz
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: output_cold_white
    pin: GPIO5
    frequency: 1100 Hz


light:
  - platform: cwww
    name: $device_name
    id: $device_name
    cold_white: output_cold_white
    warm_white: output_warm_white
    cold_white_color_temperature: 6536 K
    warm_white_color_temperature: 2000 K
    default_transition_length: 0.5s

Any recommendations on the stepping to use for the PWM? Should I move up by 100? Just not sure if I can break anything… Thanks!

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I had a single pwm up to 20kHz on a Wemos D1 mini board. No idea how that will scale with multiple pwm outputs.

I’d move up by 4KHz steps and back off by half that each time it stops being adjustable.

They just stop being adjustable when you reach the limit.

So something like

4KHz
8KHz
12KHz
16KHz - fails
14KHz - ok
15KHz - ok