Milight Remote compatibility with WLED

[qu4nt4r]

Hi there, I am building ESP32-based lights with the awesome WLED firmware. Though it has tons of APIs and features, UI wise there is a lack in proper remote control options. I (and other WLED tinkerers, too) would really love to have a solid remote (like the milight ones) for controlling these. Sure, there is the workaround with HA-MQTT-detour, but a more direct solution (JSON? HTTP Reques? UDP?) would be of great value. Though I am no coder and lack in a deeper understanding off all this underlying protocols, my guts tell me that the gap could be overcome somehow, as I see a few possible setups:

• Every WLED ESP has an attached NRF24L01, so a “hacked” milight hub would act as a NRF-NRF bridge
• The hub acts as a NRF-Wifi bridge, translating the NRF codes from the remote to something that WLED does understand (UDP? MQTT?GET?..?)
• A Usermod within the WLED firmware with an attached NRF directly translates the remote codes into something that WLED does understand
• There is the option to control the milight lights via UDP servers, so I wonder if these bulbs could be integrated into the WLED ecosystem. At least WLED also supports UDP realtime.
• As I used diyHue to integrate the milights into the hue ecosystem via the milight-hub, I wonder if the hue-emulator-bridge could be used to get the milight lights connected to WLED in any way.

If you see a straight way here and can give me/us some directions where to go from here, please let me know. Thanks in advance quan

[irose50]

Did you get any further with this? I'd like to use Milight wall remote with WLed