I’m just starting with Home Assistant so I’m probably missing some basics.
The final setup should be an ESP8266 driving an RGB LED light strip and communicating with Home Assistant via MQTT (Mosquitto broker). I was able to establish basic MQTT communication (can turn on the LED on the ESP8266 from Home Assistant and Home Assistant is getting the messages from the ESP8266) but for the last hours I have tried to add a RGB light to the configuration.yaml file but I never get the Color Picker / Wheel. I get the brightness and on/off. I tried a lot of different configurations but this is what I have right now:
Am I doing something wrong or missing the bigger picture? Based on documentation and entries here this should have worked and give me the color wheel/picker?
As said I’m pretty new to this. Could you point me in the right direction?
I can see that my ESP is connecting to home assistant. The logfile of the MQTT broker shows:
1598221092: New connection from 192.xxx.xxx.xxx on port 1883.
[INFO] found tmpMQTT on local database
1598221093: New client connected from 192.xxx.xxx.xxx as ESP8266Client-87f1 (p2, c1, k15, u'tmpMQTT').
Based on the output of the ESP the config message is being sent:
Or do I need to manually add a light entry in the configuration file, and if yes, how would I “link” this so that the discovery message will be connected to the this entry. My apologies, I probably use the complete wrong terminology for all this.