Milight Hub Automation using Remote

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,

Hope someone can please help? after a few days i managed to get this working http://blog.christophermullins.com/2017/02/11/milight-wifi-gateway-emulator-on-an-esp8266/

I can control my milights from Hass.io :slight_smile: without the official flakey milght hub

When i got to this https://github.com/sidoh/esp8266_milight_hub/wiki/Using-Milight-Remote-with-HomeAssistant

I am stuck! i cannot get the remote to update Hass.io can anyone please tell me where i am going wrong?

My automations.yaml

‘’’ - alias: MiLight Forwarder
initial_state: True
trigger:
platform: mqtt
#0x21B is the esp8266 controller
#0x539A is the milight remote
topic: milight/updates/0x539A/rgbw/+
action:
- service: mqtt.publish
data_template:
topic: “milight/commands/0x21B/rgbw/{{ trigger.topic.split(’/’)[4] }}”
payload_template: ‘{{ trigger.payload }}’’’’

my configuration.yaml

‘’'light:

  • platform: mqtt_json
    name: ‘Milight 4’
    state_topic: milight/state/0x21B/rgbw/4
    command_topic: milight/commands/0x21B/rgbw/4
    update_topic: milight/update/0x21B/rgbw/4
    brightness: true
    flash: true
    rgb: true
    white_value: true
    effect: true
    effect_list: [colorfade_slow, colorfade_fast, flash]
    optimistic: false
    ‘’’
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Hi, please when you post code use code blocks the </> icon.

I only emulate hub’s to the bulbs I don’t have remote.
All the bulbs I use the remote I use their device ID on Hass so I don’t need extra automation to have the state sync.

All you need to configure in the esp is the mqtt_topic_pattern this will be the command topic in Hass , mqtt_update_topic_pattern this will be the command topic used by the remote, mqtt_state_topic_pattern this is the state topic which is updated from mqtt_topic_pattern and mqtt_update_topic_pattern

light:
  - platform: mqtt_json
    name: 'Table'
    state_topic: "milight/state/0x354A/rgbw/1"
    command_topic: "milight/commands/0x354A/rgbw/1"
    brightness: true
    color_temp: false
    computed_color: true
    flash: true
    rgb: true
    optimistic: false

This is a working version of mine being update from the remote.
At the esp hub configurations I use:

mqtt_topic_pattern = milight/commands/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id
mqtt_update_topic_pattern = milight/updates/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id
mqtt_state_topic_pattern = milight/state/:device_id/:device_type/:group_id