Making a light cycle colours on power up

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hi all,

i have a rgb light pannel using leds, i have a magic light rgb wifi controller reflashed to use esphome.

what I want to do is have the light cycle through red,green and blue, then settle on a custom colour every time the 12v power supply is plugged in. this would give me a visual indicator that the leds are still opperational, and that the controller is powering up…

the ideal option would be that the panel lights up red on power up, blue on searching for wifi, green on connecting to wifi and settles on a custom set colour after a few seconds, but im my mind this is a whole lot harder.

any help would be greatly accepted… this is the esphome setup on the controller just now…

 esphome:
  name: emergency_light
  platform: ESP8266
  board: esp01_1m

wifi:
  ssid: "************"
  password: "************"
  manual_ip:
    static_ip: 192.168.0.5
    gateway: 192.168.0.1
    subnet: 255.255.255.0

# Enable logging
logger:

# Enable Home Assistant API
api:

ota:


sensor:
  - platform: wifi_signal
    name: "Emergency light WiFi Signal"
    update_interval: 600s

  - platform: uptime
    name: "Emergency Light uptime"
      filters:
        - lambda: return (x/60)/60;
      unit_of_measurement: "Hrs"

text_sensor:
  - platform: version
    name: "Emergency Light ESPHome version"

light:
  - platform: rgb
    name: "Emergency light"
    red: red
    green: green
    blue: blue
    effects:
      - strobe:
          name: Emergency signal
          colors:
            - state: True
              brightness: 100%
              red: 100%
              green: 0%
              blue: 0%
              duration: 500ms
            - state: True
              brightness: 100%
              red: 0%
              green: 0%
              blue: 100%
              duration: 500ms


output:
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: red
    pin: GPIO05
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: green
    pin: GPIO12
  - platform: esp8266_pwm
    id: blue
    pin: GPIO13

Edit:

Just found this
https://esphome.io/components/esphome.html#esphome-on-boot

So going to give it a play tomorrow and will post back on how I got on.

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This is unrelated, but you can configure secrets for all sensitive data in your config (like your Wi-Fi SSID and password) so you don’t need to manually suppress them when posting your config publicly.

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Thanks tedlore,

Yeah I use secrets in my HA setup but at the time couldn’t work out why it wasn’t working in esphome after reading about it… Then I worked out that it’s got to be in the esphome folder lol…

But thank you, it also means I don’t need to keep writing my ssid and password… And if I change I just need to change it once and then update all devices.

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solved in another post: