Integrate a stepper motor with a slider

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Hello all,

I am new to ESPhome and YAML code.
I created a smart light with a WS2812 ledstrip and a stepper motor to rotate the light.
The led and stepper works from HA but i want to optimize things. The problem is with the stepper. In the stepper component it seems that it is based to always drive to a target posistion, but i want to start and stop with a button and drive a certain continously speed with a slider from HA. Can someone help me with this and point in the wright direction how to set this up in the ESP config file?

LithophaneMoon
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Hello,

I was thinking maybe it is usefull for someone else to see the solution for this.
I finaly end up dont using the stepper component at all.
Start/stop and changing direction is done using switch component, and for the steps i used the Ledc PWM component.

captive_portal:

light:
  - platform: esp32_rmt_led_strip
    rgb_order: GRB
    pin: 0
    num_leds: 19
    rmt_channel: 0
    chipset: ws2812
    name: "My Light"

number:
  - platform: template
    name: Rotatie snelheid
    optimistic: true
    min_value: 0
    max_value: 600
    step: 1
    mode: slider
    on_value:
     then:
     - output.ledc.set_frequency:
         id: stepper_step
         frequency: !lambda "return x;"


output:
  - platform: ledc
    pin: 7
    id: stepper_step
    max_power: 50%
    

switch:
  - platform: gpio
    pin: 
      number: 2
      inverted: true
    id: stepper_en
    name: "Rotatie"
    on_turn_on:
      then:
      - output.turn_on: stepper_step
    on_turn_off:
      then:
      - output.turn_off: stepper_step  
  - platform: gpio
    pin: 
      number: 6
      inverted: true
    id: stepper_dir
    name: "Richting"
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