Newbie having problems parsing RGB hex string

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Hi all,

I’m pretty new to home assistant and Jinja. I have some stuff running in OpenHAB for quiet a bit and now I’m trying to move to home assistant. I use some actors I built myself. They are accessible via MQTT. One of them I’m currently struggling with is a RGB LED strip controller. To set (and get its current state) I have an RGB topic. The topic receives and transmits the pure RGB hex value, e.g. cc00ff.
I’m not using JSON as I’m kind of an old-school emebedded guy trying to keep everything simple and with as less overhead as possible, so I didn’t use JSON here. But actually with my zero-knowledge of Jinja I have no idea how to construct a template parsing (and sending) the RGB data to/from my actor.
Do I even have a chance to do so? Or should I consider changing my data format, which I’m not too comfortable with right now.

I would really appreciate any suggestions,
Manuel

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Have the same problem. As sending non hex data to mys node will have a lag where light first switches green than blue than red channels. And with sending HEX data everything is done on the node. So any solution for this?

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I’m not sure I have this problem the right way around, but if it’s hex to rgb - the api for Mote lights might be useful:

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well in openhab i have this

import java.awt.Color

rule "Set bed_lgt_RGB value"
when
	Item bed_lgt_RGB changed
then
	val HSBType hsb = bed_lgt_RGB.state as HSBType
	var Color color = Color::getHSBColor(hsb.hue.floatValue / 360, hsb.saturation.floatValue / 100, hsb.brightness.floatValue / 100)
	val String rgb = String::format("%1$02x%2$02x%3$02x", color.red, color.green, color.blue)
	publish("mqt", "mygateway1-in/36/0/1/0/40", rgb)
end
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So any ideas on how to send the RGB color in hex format? I can guess this can be done in template for RGB value but lack the knowledge and experience?

Al i need is a color wheel and publishing the hex falue for color like ffffff to an mqtt topic

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Hi

Did you ever solve this ?
I am using SONOFF-Tasmota and it needs RRBBGG in hex and also returns same

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Sorry, but no. I’m currently still running openHAB 2 and didn’t finish my experiments with HA.

8

Well just adding arduino as mysensors node with the following code
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/6765/rgb-led-strip

Works flawlessly

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Hi All,

I managed to get this working by editing the mqtt.py as follows:

cd ./usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/homeassistant/components/light
sudo pico mqtt.py

found this line and changed it to:

mqtt.async_publish(self.hass, self._topic[CONF_RGB_COMMAND_TOPIC],‘{:02X}{:02X}{:02X}’.format(*kwargs[ATTR_RGB_COLOR]), self._qos,self._retain)

Then in the Light.yaml

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Tempature Show Strip Light"
    state_topic: "stat/cap_sw/POWER2"
    command_topic: "cmnd/cap_sw/POWER2"
    brightness_state_topic: "stat/cap_sw/Scheme"
    brightness_command_topic: "cmnd/cap_sw/Scheme"
    rgb_state_topic: "stat/cap_sw/Color"
    rgb_command_topic: "cmnd/cap_sw/Color"
#    state_value_template: "{{ value_json.POWER2 }}"
    brightness_value_template: "{{ value_json.Dimmer }}"
    rgb_value_template: "{{ value_json.Color | join(',') }}"
    rgb_command_mode: hex
    brightness_scale: 100
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    optimistic: false

Note

This is not my code I found it in the HA repo as suggestion thanks to you,

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Would it not be easier if the command mode could change, so Tasmota users can use hex and other intergrations use RGB.

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Agree 100% but how do we submit this as a feature request? I can confirm as well that the above change works.

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rgb_command_template: "{{ ‘%02x%02x%02x’ | format(blue, green, red)}}"

Add that into your light mqtt config.

Finally the color picker works! HASS doesn’t get the value back and I am not fighting to get that value for now as now I can pick solid colors

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I’m having issues using ninja mqtt cape and trying to setup ninja lights.

This is my lights.yaml:

- alias: Ninja Status
  platform: mqtt
  name: "Ninja Status"
  state_topic: "ninjaCape/input/999"
  rgb_state_topic: "ninjaCape/input/999"
  command_topic: "ninjaCape/output/999"
  rgb_command_topic: "ninjaCape/output/999"
  rgb_command_template: "{{ '%02x%02x%02x' | format(red, green, blue) }}"
  qos: 0
  #optimistic: false
  #retain: true
  payload_off: "000000"
  payload_on: "111111"

And logs complains with:

2017-09-25 09:42:05 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Exception in callback async_subscribe.<locals>.async_mqtt_topic_subscriber('ninjaCape/input/1007', b'F513FF', 0) at /srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/__init__.py:213
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/asyncio/events.py", line 120, in _run
    self._callback(*self._args)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/__init__.py", line 232, in async_mqtt_topic_subscriber
    hass.async_run_job(msg_callback, dp_topic, payload, dp_qos)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/core.py", line 247, in async_run_job
    target(*args)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/light/mqtt.py", line 252, in rgb_received
    templates[CONF_RGB](payload).split(',')]
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages/homeassistant/components/light/mqtt.py", line 251, in <listcomp>
    self._rgb = [int(val) for val in
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'F513FF'

It’s latest home assistant and dependencies.

Any clue?

Thanks!

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I don’t know anything about the ninjacape but I don’t think the command_topic and rgb_command_topic can be the same.

Here is my complete config that works…

platform: mqtt
name: “Goose-LED”
retain: true
state_topic: “stat/IOT-Ext-Goose/POWER”
command_topic: “cmnd/IOT-Ext-Goose/POWER”
rgb_command_template: “{{ ‘%02x%02x%02x’ | format(blue, green, red)}}”
rgb_state_topic: “stat/IOT-Ext-Goose/Color”
rgb_command_topic: “cmnd/IOT-Ext-Goose/Color”
effect_state_topic: “stat/IOT-Ext-Goose/Scheme”
effect_command_topic: “cmnd/IOT-Ext-Goose/Scheme”
state_value_template: “{{ value_json.state }}”
brightness_state_topic: “stat/IOT-Ext-Goose/Dimmer”
brightness_command_topic: “cmnd/IOT-Ext-Goose/Dimmer”
brightness_value_template: “{{ value_json.Dimmer }}”
brightness_scale: 80
effect_value_template: “{{ value_json.scheme }}”
effect_list:
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10

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As far as I see you’re playing with Sonoff Tasmota by Theo Arendst. I have made a small modifications to standard MQTT light component to work with led strips on Tasmota. Here it is: https://github.com/ardeus-ua/ha-tasmota