Core: FLUX_LED LEDENET - Cannot change color

[Dunky13]

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Home Assistant release (hass --version):
0.52.0

Python release (python3 --version):
3.4.2

Component/platform:
Flux LED / ledenet protocol

Description of problem:
I can only turn on/off the led strip, but changing the color or brightness has no effect

Expected:
Changing the color scheme in HASS should change the led strip color

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and steps to reproduce:

light:
    - platform: flux_led
      devices:
        192.168.1.2:
            name: kitchen_led
            protocol: 'ledenet'
            mode: 'rgb'

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Additional info:
Running with this controller: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01DY56N8U

[Danielhiversen]

Have you tested your light with Flux led library we are using? https://github.com/Danielhiversen/flux_led
It might not be supported: https://github.com/Danielhiversen/flux_led/issues/47

[Dunky13]

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.github.io/pull/1669/files

According to this pull request (which was merged on Jan 9th) it should support that specific wifi controller

It needs RGBWWCW, I tried with flux_led but to no avail. Even set protocol to LEDENET

[Danielhiversen]

Have you tested your light directly with the Flux led library we are using? https://github.com/Danielhiversen/flux_led

[Dunky13]

$ pip install flux_led
Requirement already satisfied: flux_led in /srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.4/site-packages

$ python -m flux_led 192.168.1.2 --protocol LEDENET -c 0,255,0
Setting color RGB:(0, 255, 0)
[(0, 255, 0)]
Unknown ID [192.168.1.2] ON  [Color: (201, 62, 73) White: 13 raw state: 129,37,35,97,33,16,201,62,73,13,1,13,240,182,]

[Dunky13]

And for some reason I'm getting:

$ python -m flux_led 192.168.1.2 --protocol LEDENET -1
Unable to connect to bulb at [192.168.1.2]: bytearray index out of range

as an error now

[Dunky13]

It isn't working as it doesn't set the color, it says it is setting it. But it isn't propagating

[Danielhiversen]

Ok, than someone (probably you) with your light have to fix this in the library,
There is not much I can do without the light device.
There are a lot of these bulbs with similar protocols, and we currently do not support all of them

[Dunky13]

It works when duplicating line 944 of __main__.py
msg.append(special) Needs the extra CW byte.

[Danielhiversen]

Great, please open a pull request to the flux led library, and it will be added to the next version of HA

[Dunky13]

I don't know what the effect are on other led controller though!

[Danielhiversen]

That is a problem. We have some tests, so you have to make sure they are passing.
Then you can open a pull request, and I will ask some other users to test the changes before merging.

[aldkosky]

@Dunky13 Thank you!!! adding the extra CW byte works correctly on my LEDENET!

EDIT:
the last sources of the official repository works correctly, apparently the sources in home assistant are not the last version.

https://github.com/Danielhiversen/flux_led/commit/a97551d45a448bdb9ff8be8b397db0a9696f7140

[Danielhiversen]

I have made a new release of the flux led library, and it will be part of HA 0.55