Is it feasible to use a (hacked) Miboxer WL5 with ESPHome?

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I have two Miboxer WL5 LED strip controllers laying around. I know they are not based on ESP8266 nor ESP32. They are based on a “WR3” chip, which has a form factor similar to ESP-12e plus an additional N76E003AT20 MCU chip
I’ve seen a comment of someone who replaced the “WR3” chip with an ESP-12e and was able to enable some functions on Tasmota’s Github: Flash Mi-Light WL5 with Tasmota? · Issue #7385 · arendst/Tasmota · GitHub

That is the only mention I found to that hack. Do you think it will be possible to bring those devices to the light side of home automation?

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i use the Mi-Light (miboxer) WiFi bridge to control the Miboxer LED controllers. That way it is compatible with HA thru the LimitlessLED integration. Works flawlesly here.
No need to DIY anything :smiley:

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Thanks for the suggestion. I’m not using them right now. I only want to explore if it will be feasible to use them with ESPHome. All my switches and lights run on it, and I want to avoid fragmentation on the system.

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I’ve done it with Tasmota. It can surely be done with ESPHome as well.

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Sorry to reopen this but it’s related to this thread.

I used @Flanagun’s template. I have got an ESP12-S transplanted in the WL5 and got Tasmota on it working (sort of).

I need help getting RGB+CCT working with this.

I have tried this code from another template (linked below) and it sort of works. I can control RGB & CCT separately.
But when I am on an RGB value, and select an CCT value, the mode changes fine. But when I am on a CCT value and select an RGB value. The mode is stuck on the CCT mode.

‘Backlog DimmerRange 0,1000; TuyaMCU 11,20; TuyaMCU 26,21; TuyaMCU 21,22; TuyaMCU 23,23; TuyaMCU 24,24;’

Source: MiBoxer RGB+CCT LED Controller (FUT039W) Configuration for Tasmota

Can anyone help please?

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Sorry, I cannot help. In the end I bult some ESP32 based LED controllers, and never used the WL5.

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This looks to be based on RTL chip supported by LibreTuya