How to use the PWM LED component in hassio

I’m still having the same issue in HA 0.87.0 and now HassOS 2.8. There’s still currently no way that I know to check if pigpio is running, or how to start the daemon in Hass at startup. I have a single RGB led connected to the gpio of the same Pi running HA. Can’t control it as a light. Really hoping a solution surfaces soon.