[Help needed] LEGO Millenium Falcon USB lights automation

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Hello everyone and thank you in advance,

As the topic is saying I have built a LEGO Millenium Falcon and added some LED lights on it (this one to be precise: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0855D6RD2/). The lights came with a small box requiring 3 AA batteries, and a manual switch.

The ship is on a stand, in a really tall bookshelf with no proximity to a power socket and I would like to have a button on my HA interface which will allow me to turn on/off the lights. I can use a USB battery for the power but what I miss is a bluetooth or network switch.

I hope I was enough clear to expose my problem and I can find a solution for it.

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One option would be to use an ESP32 board running WLED. This could be USB powered and controlled via wi-fi from HA.

The problem will be keeping it powered. It’ll need a few batteries.

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hi @templeton_nash thank you, that maybe an idea to explore :slight_smile:

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Maybe something like that but not sure it is supported by HA

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WiFi will drain your battery (depending on its size) within a few weeks. I’d look into low energy protocols (Zigbee, Z-Wave, BLE).

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hi @FPro this is a good point, I mentioned WiFi as possible alternative but you are definitely right on the battery drain issue

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Did you find any working method?