Hi, I’m still new to this so please write clearly… I’m trying to set up a WS2812 LED strip on Home Assistant and don’t seem to be getting anywhere. I am using the new ESP Easy Mega on a wemos D1 mini as I have difficulty connecting the basic wifi scripts to my modem (Archer C50 Dual Band). For some reason the normal ‘WiFi.begin(ssid, password)’ script will not connect whereas the ESPEasy access point approach works ok. So, I can’t get the ‘NeoPixel basic’ option to work in the ESPEasy Mega firmware but I have installed the ‘Candle’ plugin firmware as it has a ‘static’ option which will serve my purpose. However, I can’t seem to be able to get Home Assistant to control it. Has anyone successfully used this ESPEasy plugin and linked it to HA yet? If so can you please tell me how… Thanks, Ian
Apparently there is a issue with ESP easy + MQTT + Neopixel candle (MQTT commands not arriving at the plugin).
I did manage to get the Neopixel basic plugin working with home assistant, but it offers limited functionality (but static color is possible) . I used the instruction at the bottom of this page:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4009&p=22611&hilit=neopixel#p22611
Did you perhaps find a different solution in the mean time?
HI, sorry I couldn’t reply straight away… I did get neopixels working with ESP Easy but I can’t remember how just at the moment - it was a long time ago… It certainly wasn’t with the sketches on the page you referred to.
If its any help at all, here is the relevant bit of my config file which shows the options…
- platform: mqtt_json
name: “Strip”
state_topic: “ian/strip”
command_topic: “ian/strip/set”
effect: true
effect_list:
- bpm
- candy cane
- confetti
- cyclon rainbow
- dots
- fire
- glitter
- juggle
- lightning
- noise
- police all
- police one
- rainbow
- rainbow with glitter
- ripple
- sinelon
- solid
- twinkle
brightness: true
flash: true
rgb: true
optimistic: false
qos: 0
input_slider:
strip_animation_speed:
name: Strip Animation Speed
initial: 150
min: 1
max: 150
step: 10
Thanks!!! Is you happen to come across the ESP setup i`m definitely interested. Read something about MQTT import but i can’t seem to figure it our.
Ill keep looking.
Hi - has anyone been able to set up a MQTT_JSON_Light with ESPEasy Neopixel cancle?
link to espeasy: https://github.com/letscontrolit/ESPEasy/blob/mega/src/_P042_Candle.ino
I cannot seem to get the light to respond using the config above. any new suggestions?
Thanks!