Hello everyone, i’m new on this forum. I would like to know if there is a way to control a strip led RGB directly with raspberry gpio. In my configuration.yaml I put this code:
light:
- platform: rpi_gpio_pwm
leds:
- name: Lightstrip Desk
driver: pca9685
pins: [3, 4, 5, 6] # [R, G, B, W]
type: rgbw
And in home assistant page I get a switch and a bar to adjust brightness, I would like to get also a color picker and some effects like fade. How can i do?
did u fix this problem ?
No, i used esp8266 for light controll and mqtt protocol ti interface home assistant with esp8266
Has anyone got the “driver: pca9685” working in the last couple of years? I wondering if it should be removed from the documentation. I bought a pca9685 because it looked like it was supported because of this page (https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/rpi_gpio_pwm/) but that seems to be out-dated documentation.
I actually got this to work!
api: is required.
api:
light:
- platform: rpi_gpio_pwm
leds:
- name: Some Test Device
driver: pca9685
pins: [1]
type: simple
Install pwmled
pip install pwmled
Ran sudo raspi-config --> Interface Options --> Enabled I2C
note: I did this because I was getting the error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/i2c-1'
followed the instructions from here
note: The first two lines are cleanup and may not be needed.
rm pigpio.zip
sudo rm -rf PIGPIO
wget abyz.me.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
unzip pigpio.zip
cd PIGPIO
make
sudo make install
Then from some instructions here I also ran.
sudo pigpiod
(optional) run sudo i2cdetect -y 1 and made sure you see a “40”. Then run lsmod | grep i2c and sudo i2cdetect -l and make sure they look something like the below…
It should look something like this…
Wire-up the PCA9685. I followed this by Kevin Townsend in 2019.
Reboot the entire pi (not just HA)
sudo shutdown -r now
Now I see “Some Test Device” on my Home screen. When I switch it on and off I see the LED connected between GND and PWM turn on and off.
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