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Home Assistant Yellow - hardware for Home Assistant which grows with your needs.
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Disable LP5569 RGB LED solution/use regular Raspberry Pi LEDs #32

Closed agners closed 3 years ago

agners commented 3 years ago

It seems that LP5569, alternative LP55231 nor the option considered in #11 are available really.

As an alternative a GPIO controlled solution has been considered: Using three GPIOs controlling all three LEDs (of the same color) together. However, this requires external LED drivers, does not allow dynamic brightness change, and getting the brightness balanced requires testing with resistors etc.

Furthermore debugging showed to be critical: only having software controlled LED, and no LED indicating that the device is running early at boot is annoying.

Decision: Let's populate the regular Raspberry Pi LEDs

Additional to have some options controlled by Home Assistant (OS), also add a yellow red