Use Alexa to change my LED effect

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So i have set up some lights in my garden, they are working perfectly but i would like to get Alexa to change the effect. All i can seem to do is turn the light on or off but cannot control what effect to use.

Below it the code. I take no credit for this as it was a copy and paste from DR ZZZ

light:
  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Bar Lights”
    command_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setpower”
    state_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setpowerpub”
    rgb_state_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setcolorpub”
    rgb_command_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setcolor”
    brightness_state_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setbrightnesspub”
    brightness_command_topic: “bruh/mqttstrip/setbrightness”
    optimistic: false

input_select:
holiday_led_effect:
name: Holiday LED Effect
options:
- “Christmas”
- “Candy Cane”
- “Holly Jolly”
- “Valentine”
- “Lovey Day”
- “St Patty”
- “Easter”
- “USA”
- “Independence”
- “Go Blue”
- “Hail”
- “Touchdown”
- “Halloween”
- “Punkin”
- “Thanksgiving”
- “Turkey Day”
- “BPM”
- “Confetti”
- “Cyclon Rainbow”
- “Dots”
- “Fire”
- “Glitter”
- “Juggle”
- “Lightning”
- “Police All”
- “Police One”
- “Rainbow”
- “Rainbow with Glitter”
- “Ripple”
- “Sinelon”
- “Solid”
- “Twinkle”
initial: “Rainbow with Glitter”

input_number:
animation_speed:
name: Animation Speed
initial: 150
min: 1
max: 150
step: 10

2

There ins’t enough info here for people to help you. How are you interfacing to alexa? There’s a handful of ways to interface with her and home assistant. Which one are you using?

3

Hi Petro Thanks for your reply.

I am using Hassio and the MQTT broker addon to communicate with the node MCU.

I am using the home assistant cloud skill to control Alexa,
The light is set up as bar lights. i can say “Alexa turn on the Bar Lights” but i cannot change the effect

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Hello, now you have more than enough info, can you answer the question? Or you just need to scream in forums…

5

Hi Petro

Sorry for not replying . Anyway i used WLED in the end and did not need to integrate this into Home Assistant.

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How is any of that screaming? Take your attitude elsewhere.

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Sorry, I never saw your reply. If you reply using the button under the posters name, they will get a notification in the future.

If you reply at the bottom of the tread, only you the original poster will get a notification.

Anyways to answer your question, it depends on the platform. The homeassistant cloud platform should accept saying phrases like “Alexa , make the kitchen lights blue”