webThing LED RGBW (RGB+White) controller

7th April 2020

Introduction

This WebThing controller is prepared for ESP32 CPUs and uses esp-idf environment (current stable version).

The WebThing controls RGBW LED strip.

Dependencies

Requires:

• web-thing-server from webthings-components

Example

See webthings-node-example-project or webthings-empty-project.

Features

WebThing has the following properties and one action with multi inputs:

• ON/OFF
• Color brightness, RGB channels, 0 .. 100%
• White brightness, white channel, 0 .. 100%
• Color-1, used by some patterns
• Color-2, used by some patterns
• Settings (action), with the following inputs
  • mode: WHITE+COLOR, COLOR, WHITE
  • pattern, color changing patterns
  • pulse-min, used by "pulse" patterns
  • sensor, if motion sensor is installed, check this option to switch ON LEDs after a sensor signal
  • speed, the speed of color change in patterns other than "STATIC"
  • timer, turn OFF after a specified number of minutes

Documentation

See webthings-empty-project and follow steps described in Build webThing Device chapter.

In point 5 download webthing-rgbw repository. In function init_things() call init_rgbw_controller() and include webthing_rgbw.h and rgb_color.h in your main project file.

Source Code

The source code is available from GitHub.

Links

• WebThing Gateway - https://webthings.io/gateway/
• Web Thing API - https://webthings.io/api/
• esp-idf - https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Authors

• Krzysztof Zurek - github