MagicHome RGB controller

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Hi everyone.

Just wanted to let you know that the cheap MagicHome
(Just search eBay for RGB wifi, and find one that looks like mine)
RGB controller can be flashed with Tasmota.
When flashed you can control it using mqtt from Pimatic.

The only thing is that the settings are different on some of the devices than stated on the Tasmota wiki page. Mine is based on the ESP8285 and have to have the following settings to work.

And SetOption15 1 in the console.

Now I can control the RGB light strip from Pimatic frontend 😁

what about the remote? i cannot find it in your pin configuration.

I have bought the version without remote. Not gonna use it anyway.

Everywhere ESP8266… You can take a look to ESPurna with Alexa support MQTT and much more…

I’d flashed many devices and one bulb…

How did you control RGB with it? There is no MQTT RGB Device… Only dimmer…

Tasmota can be used as a RGB controller in the newest version. You need to input the gpio pins as my screenshot. Then in console you can set “SetOption15 1” This will make it into the RGB controller, so you can send a mqtt message with a color in hex as payload and control the brightness as a dimmer.
BTW it is not a esp8266.
It is a esp8285.

@simonbove said in MagicHome RGB controller:

mqtt message with a color in hex as payload and control the brightness as a dimmer.

Yes then you have three different dimmer… That is bad… there is no mqtt rgb or rgbw support for pimatic…

I miss a color picker…

I have 1 dimmer. And then made mqtt buttons with the colors I want. I don’t have a color picker, and I don’t need one, since I made a button with the colors I use.

Can you take a screenshot of your device from pimatic? I can’t imagination yet clearly…

Thanks for sharing!

Otherwise you can use three dimmers for r,g and b and then you can create also many different colours…

The MQTT topics I’m using for the dimmer is:

The magic happens with the SetOption15 1 command

Here is my setup with colorpicker.

I made a DummyLedLight device.

This will create a few varriables.

Then a few rules:

When $tasmota-rgb.color changes Then publish mqtt message "$tasmota-rgb.color" on topic "tasmota/rgb/cmnd/Color" on broker MQTTBroker

When $tasmota-rgb.power changes Then publish mqtt message "$tasmota-rgb.power" on topic "tasmota/rgb/cmnd/POWER" on broker MQTTBroker

When $tasmota-rgb.brightness gets updated Then publish mqtt message "$tasmota-rgb.brightness " on topic "tasmota/rgb/cmnd/dimmer" on broker MQTTBroker

This works for RGB but not for RGBW(W).
If I want just white I hit a MQTT button that sends #000000FF

@incmve Can you tell me how ro make a DummyLedLight device?

Thanks Hans

Devices > Add a new device > DummyLedLight

@hansjeu said in MagicHome RGB controller:

@incmve Can you tell me how ro make a DummyLedLight device?

The “DummyLedLight” is part if the led-light plugin.

Thank you.