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sidoh / esp8266_milight_hub

Replacement for a Milight/LimitlessLED hub hosted on an ESP8266
MIT License
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Serial API #767

Closed MikeCLX closed 2 years ago

MikeCLX commented 2 years ago

Awesome work and i have got one setup and working well, I was thinking when some more hardware comes along that i have ordered i might do a step by step for widows write up if your interested, I have not used Platform IO or Arduino before but have been developing Pic Micros and in Visual Studio for many years. It took me a good few hours to work out exactly what was needed from the instructions on how to get this running.

Have you considered using the serial port to talk to the ESP to send and receive commands with the bulbs? This would open it up to quite a few options as you could easily then run this as a co processor and use a MCU to add functions.

For example a few people have mentioned using inputs or switches and this would then be possible using a MCU of your choice.

In my case i want to link it into a home automation system but don't want the setup or overhead of Wi-Fi, routers change, passwords change, etc etc and i just want to be able to set and forget. Some have mentioned using a wired network and this would make this also quite easy to achieve on a MCU with Ethernet talking to the ESP via UART

With the cost of ESP being so low it could easily just be used as a co processor on a PCB and just driven via the UART

Thanks, Mike

MikeCLX commented 2 years ago

I have been working on this and think I can get it doing what I want, so I’ll close the case.