How to use the PWM LED component in hassio

MY LIGHTS ARE WORKING!!!

For anyone else struggling to get PWMled component working on HASSOS here’s how I got mine working. Karansoi was correct in instructing us to install Markus Pöschl’s repository but gave the wrong URL. The correct URL is https://github.com/Poeschl/Hassio-Addons. Go to the supervisor section of your homeassistant UI and click on the addon store tab. There is a three dot icon on the top right of the screen, click that. Select repositories from the drop down menu. Paste the Poeschi URL into the pop up box where it says add repository then click add. Wait a minute or two. Once the new repository appears close the pop up. Scroll down to the bottom of the addon store page and you’ll see all of Poeschl’s Home Assistant Add-ons. Click on pigpio. Click on install. wait for the install to finish before restarting HASS. All my PWM lights magically appeared! Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction Karansoi.

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Good that you got your pwmled working.
Thanks for letting me know my typo error in the url.
BTW my system is giving a log that pwmeld is deprecated and that to modify the light simplepwmled. Are you getting such log.

thanks @brode and @Whiskey, for correcting my post in respect of the url.
Cheers…

I have noticed the same error. Light is depreciated and pwnled should be using lightentity instead. I read a little into it and I discovered that users where experiencing lag and malfunctions with Philips hue hubs due to too many “on” commands being sent by service calls. “On” commands take longer for hue hubs to process than other commands so when not strictly necessary should be dropped from the service call. This isn’t possible with the current Light call. The fix was to introduce Lightentity. As this didn’t seem to affect my setup I’m happy to ignore this error for now. I have no plans to use Philips hue.

Edit: If someone knows how to update PWMled component with Lightentity that would be great. I have no idea how to do that :disappointed_relieved:

This error log has gone off perhaps over updates in the hassos etc…
I happened to ask if you got a similar log too?

I did notice the error after installing the add on. Just checked now after updating HASSOS and supervisor and I can’t see the error in the system logs. Just noticed there is an update for pigpio add on so I’m installing that update now. Will reboot the pi and check logs again. I’ll let you know if I spot anything in the logs once it’s back online.

Looks like the error is fixed in the latest release :+1:

Officials say esphone management is recommended