WLED Effects - want to access in Home Assistant and HomeKit

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I started playing around with some WLED projects and have been very impressed.

My setup is Home Assistant (all devices loaded into HA), and then use HomeKit Bridge to selectively publish devices to HomeKit (which is the interface the family uses).

One of my larger WLED projects is for my daughter’s room. Since we use apple devices, there is not a naitive WLED app to download, and I don’t want her to have to manager her lights via the local ip site. The lights go from HA to HK easily, but it is missing all of the WELD effects.

Is there a way to get the effects to show up in HK?

For context, I did attempt to setup a homebridge VM and got the effects to show up in HK that way, but then I lost the ability to have the WLED entities exposed in HA (which I need for other automation purposes).

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You may need to add a HA switch that call an action. The switch may be controlled in HomeKit


type oralias: WLED Smooth
description: ""
trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id:
      - input_boolean.wled_button_2
    to: "on"
condition: []
action:
  - device_id: 8b2871f8c10002bf71da28f739f42fa5
    domain: select
    entity_id: select.wled_preset
    type: select_option
    option: Dynamic Smooth
  - service: input_boolean.turn_off
    data: {}
    target:
      entity_id: input_boolean.wled_button_2
mode: single

Example I found above. I don’t like how it setup but I think it gets the idea across

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Thanks for sharing! Would this expose each effect as an individual switch in HA? There are probably 40+ effects. Do you know if there is a way to have all of the effects in a single entity? When I played around with homebridge a few days ago (which I really don’t want to use), I could get a single device in HK and a list of effects below it (with an additional dimmer to control the ‘speed’ of the effect.

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Yes. There would be a switch for the single effect.

Yes. The automation can toggle between the effects

Turn on would toggle effect
Turn off would toggle again or turn off
You would need to determine a logical way

You can combine effects in wled(forget the naming) . You could also toggle or have switch on/off this

Cant confirm if that is possible

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I gave up on getting this into HK - instead, I opened up the local address for wled on my iphone, went to ‘share’ the link and added it to the homescreen and it just acts like an independent app. Honestly, this is kind of best of both worlds - it’s still integrated into HA and we have a dedicated way to access the light and all of the features.