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MQTT RGB LEDs Using JSON for Home Assistant
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RGBW ledstrip connection #62

Closed lodv closed 3 years ago

lodv commented 3 years ago

Hi, I have a question concerning this tutorial: ESP8266 MQTT RGB(W) Lights Using JSON for Home Assistant. I use a RGBW led strip. It has 5 wires: RGB Black and white. My led strip has separate led for white. In your image I can't see the connection for the black wire and the white wire goes to the +12V. Please can you describe what I have to change in order to get it working. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Yvonne

corbanmailloux commented 3 years ago

If you're using an RGBW strip, you'll need an additional MOSFET and wiring. You should connect the wire for the white LEDs through a MOSFET to an additional GPIO pin on the ESP, and set the CONFIG_PIN_WHITE value to that pin: https://github.com/corbanmailloux/esp-mqtt-rgb-led/blob/master/mqtt_esp8266_light/config-sample.h#L25.

Additionally, GitHub issues aren't really meant for support, so I'm closing this issue.