Addressable LEDs and ESPhome support

[Ajam1997]

Are there any plans to add Addressable led strip effects to RGBMaster? Also what about open-source providers like ESPhome.

https://esphome.io/index.html

[deankevorkian]

Open source providers are planned being supported very soon, probably in the next next version. We are now doing some cleanup in existing providers and adding proper device detection (so we can actually detect what devices you have on your pc and not just suggest all the devices we support, even if they are not connected).

Addressable leds - we might support those in the future but it's going to take some time and it's not our highest priority at the moment. We'll have to put a lot of effort in making some sort of canvas that let's you choose the areas or zones to sync colors to, and will make us rethink the entire effects model we currently have. While as of now the app is pretty straightforward and simple, it is also limited in its capabilities - like applying different effects to different zones of the same device, at the same time. Addressable leds are also a variant of this design question. So I wanna say yes, but it will take time. We'll have to come up with a Layers model (where effects are like layers in photoshop). Similar to what Aurora has been doing (and I wanna say Artemis too but I'm not sure).

[deankevorkian]

Also please do feel free to list the open source providers you'd want us to support as I am not familiar with the stack as much, and want to first support the providers that our users currently use, give them what they want right now. Also, we might need help with testing - we have come up with a plan to release preview versions that are rather stable, and our users can test to help us integrating new providers and devices.

[Ajam1997]

I believe the big one for open source wifi lighting is Home Assistant. There are probably some other ones, I'll have to dig around some more.

[airampg]

Hi, first of all, thank you for this amazing project!
I would like to know if support for open source is coming at some point? I would love to use your software with WLED and ESPhome (besides Yeelight and Magic Home). I do not really know the ins and outs, but I think you can integrate these using udp, or e131. Maybe the code of ledFX can help integrate these? If there is anything I can do (test, answer questions) do let me know. G