LedFx ReMote for Home Assistant

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Custom Integration for Home Assistant to control any (local/remote) LedFx-server

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Main Features

LedFx Remote

• Select your LedFx scene from inside Home Assistant!
• Display the number of scenes/devices/pixels connected to LedFx
• Start and stop the LedFx server (custom Endpoint required!)

LedFx Device Remote

• Toggle the power for devices configured in LedFx
• Display number of pixels per device
• Display IP per device
• Display current running effect-name

Default	With Devices

Requirements:

• LedFx
  • minimum version: v0.9.0 (so atm you need the dev-branch)
  • with at least one scene setup
  • the ledfx config.yaml file defines your host as 127.0.0.1 by default. The host needs to be changed to 0.0.0.0 in order for this integration to function properly.
  • LedFx Docs
• hass - (HomeAssistant)
• HACS - (HomeAssistantCommunityStore)

QuickStart

• Add Repo to HACS:

  • Navigate to HACS in Home Assistant
  • Select "Integrations"
  • Select the menu hamburger in the upper right of the screen
  • Select "Custsom repositories"
  • Add the url for this repository and select integration as the cattegory

• Install integration via HACS:

  • The integration should now be visible, select "Install"
  • Restart Home Assistant for the changes to take effect

• Add integration to Home Assistant:

  • In the HA UI go to "Configuration" -> "Integrations" click "+" and search for "LedFx Remote"

• Configuration is done in the UI

  • Add the IP of the machine running LedFx to the "Host" field
  • Leave the default port of 8888 or change it to match your configuration
    • (LedFx Server needs to be online and running)
    • no changes are needed in configuration.yaml
    • all Settings are handled via UI
  • Open the light entity and change your scenes :)

Step by Step Installation - Images-Guide

Detailed Features

• Everything configurable via UI :)
• AutoCreate Entities with GET Informations from all LedFx-API-Endpoints:
  • Binary Sensor (Is LedFx online?)
  • Devices Sensor (Number of Devices inside LedFx)
  • Scenes Sensor (Number of Scenes inside LedFx)
  • Pixels Sensor (Number of Pixels inside LedFx)
  • Switch (if start/stop is set in config - custom GET-call)
  • Light
    • EffectList (Filled with scenes from LedFx)
    • Off->On - just toggles a manual sync (double click the switch)
• EffectList-Change will fire LedFx via PUT
• Scan_intervall in seconds via UI:
  • Note: This also defines how long you can interact with it (start server), after a disconnect (kill server)
  • Recommendation: set to a high number. Polling is only to get changes made inside LedFx.
• SubDevices: (config via UI)
  • Get the Devices running inside LedFx including their states
  • ON / OFF Button
    • OFF Button saves the current effect running on the current device
    • ON Button will use that state if available otherwise sends "Gradient"
• Start/Stop Server:
  • Set custom Endpoints for Start and Stop
  • Configurable methods: GET, DELETE, PUT, POST
  • Configurable body: json (untested)
• NEW: Add Blade-Light: 1 effect throught multiple devices

Upcoming Features

• Make also use of the after setup config flow (options)
  • Allow editing of setup-settings
  • Allow disable poll (If you have everything setup in ledfx, there is no need to poll for new infos all the time)
  • Make fallback "gradient" somehow editable for the user

Screens

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Default:

With Subdevices:

Credits

Special Thanks