VibeLight 5 (based on ESP8266 for Home Assistant)

Features

• RGB(W) LED light firmware for ESP8266 (e.g. Wemos D1 Mini)
• Easy integration to Home Assistant
• Encrypted MQTT communication with TLS 1.1
• Supports both RGB and RGBW LED lights
• Supports transitions for Home Assistant
• New: Support for both classic cathode and WS2812B LED types
• New: Supports animations (see examples below) - dependent of LED type
• Customizable color channel offsets for color correction of the LED strip

Project application

Here you see the firmware used on a Wemos D1 Mini based RGBW controller to nicely light up my alcohol collection:

Configuration

The firmware must be configured before flashing to ESP8266. Rename src/Firmware/sketches/Production/config-sample.h to src/Firmware/sketches/Production/config.h and change the values like desired.

Flash settings

NodeMCU

• Arduino IDE: 2.2.1
• Platform: esp8266 2.4.2
• Board: NodeMCU 1.0 (ESP-12E Module)
• CPU Frequency: 80 MHz
• Debug Port: Disabled
• Debug Level: None
• Erase Flash: Only Sketch
• Flash Size: 4M (1M SPIFFS)
• IwIP Variant: v2 Lower Memory
• VTables: Flash

LOLIN (Wemos) D1 mini

• Arduino IDE: 2.2.1
• Platform: esp8266 2.4.2
• Board: LOLIN (WEMOS) D1 R2 & mini
• CPU Frequency: 80 MHz
• Debug Port: Disabled
• Debug Level: None
• Erase Flash: Only Sketch
• Flash Size: 4M (1M SPIFFS)
• IwIP Variant: v2 Lower Memory
• VTables: Flash

Example configuration for Home Assistant

Tested with Home Assistant 2023.8.2.

The example blocks must be added to the mqtt block of your configuration.

RGB (classic cathode LEDs)

- light:
    name: "My VibeLight RGB light"
    schema: json
    state_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/state/"
    command_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/command/"
    brightness: true
    color_mode: true
    supported_color_modes: ["rgb"]
    effect: true
    effect_list:
      - none
      - colorloop

RGBW (classic cathode LEDs)

- light:
    name: "My VibeLight RGB light"
    schema: json
    state_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/state/"
    command_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/command/"
    brightness: true
    color_mode: true
    supported_color_modes: ["rgbw"]
    effect: true
    effect_list:
      - none
      - colorloop

RGB (WS2812B LEDs)

- light:
    name: "My VibeLight RGB light"
    schema: json
    state_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/state/"
    command_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/command/"
    brightness: true
    color_mode: true
    supported_color_modes: ["rgb"]
    effect: true
    effect_list:
      - none
      - rainbow
      - colorloop
      - laserscanner

RGBW (WS2812B LEDs)

- light:
    name: "My VibeLight RGB light"
    schema: json
    state_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/state/"
    command_topic: "/vibelight/api/6/id/AAAABBBB/command/"
    brightness: true
    color_mode: true
    supported_color_modes: ["rgbw"]
    effect: true
    effect_list:
      - none
      - rainbow
      - colorloop
      - laserscanner