Magic Home, Flux, zigbee?

Third party integrations
1

I have two Magic Home LED strip controllers - one in the kitchen and one in the office (ie lockdown shed!).
I have tried adding the following to my configuration.yaml, but nothing shows up. I assume I dont have the right type of controllers to make this work.
‘’’
light:

  • platform: flux_led
    automatic_add: true
    ‘’’
    I therefore have two options - reflash the controllers if they support that, or buy new ones. I also have a Hue bridge, and integration with HA works great. This would therefore seem to be the easiest option (ie a few clicks on amazon rather than a load of soldering and electronics!).
    Can anyone recommend a third party LED controller (one will need to be RGBWW, the other just white) to interface with Hue ? Does any zigbee controller work ?
2

i believe you have to add also the ip address of the device and its name mine is like this
light:

  • platform: flux_led
    automatic_add: True
    devices:
    192.168.0.121:
    name: Conservatory_mood_light
    192.168.0.122:
    name: Eves_mood_light
    192.168.0.123:
    name: Bathroom_mood_light
    192.168.0.124:
    name: Bedroom_mood_light
    192.168.0.125:
    name: Drive_mood_light
    192.168.0.126:
    name: Garden_mood_light
    192.168.0.127:
    name: Kitchen_mood_light
    192.168.0.128:
    name: Living_room_mood_light
    192.168.0.129:
    name: Stairs_mood_light
    192.168.0.130:
    name: Summer_house_mood_light
    192.168.0.133:
    name: Galaxy_keypad_mood_light
3

Thanks… I have tried, but now get an error! My yaml looks like:
light:

  • platform: flux_led
    automatic_add: True
    devices:
    192.168.1.234:
    name: Office

But I get this when trying to validate:
Invalid config for [light.flux_led]: expected a dictionary for dictionary value @ data[‘devices’]. Got None
extra keys not allowed @ data[‘192.168.1.234’]. Got None
extra keys not allowed @ data[‘name’]. Got ‘Office’. (See ?, line ?).

Any idea ??

4

sorry that might be my fault for the copy / paste taking spaces out
image
thats how it should be

5

Hi Phil,

good to see that i’m not the only newbie here :wink:

I also had an issue with flux_led and assiging them by ip address. I sorted that by bind the Mac to the IP in the router and putting just platform and automatic_add in the yaml as you done. That works 99.9% of the time but every once in a while one bridge fails to be recognized which is then later added anyway.

I did have a huge problem with Limilessled. By chance I had to reset the bridge of those and after that everything worked fine. So maybe a reset of te flux_led bridge will also work?

my 2 cents

Chauf

6

Thats done it! Just a couple of spaces out. Brilliant - thanks.
I have a zigbee controller arriving today from amazon - looks like I wont need that now.
I’ll bind in the router too so the IP doesn’t move - good tip!

7

yes static ip addresses are key, My crapy sky router will only allow 50 addresses to be asigned static, so i now give my DIY esp home devices an address in the config.