core: Flux_Led Not working with single colour Magic Home led controller since 0.90

Home Assistant release with the issue:

0.90.1

Last working Home Assistant release (if known): 0.89.2

Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):

raspberry pi 3b running Hass.io.

Component/platform:

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/light.flux_led/

Description of problem: Apologies - first bug report, so I hope I have done it correctly

Since the new Flux_Led component, my Magic Home single colour wifi controller cannot be controlled correctly. Brightness cannot be adjusted and on/off is intermittent. This happens through both the front end cards and automation. This was working fine within the previous Flux_Led component. This is the Magic Home device https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07JVPVDFD My other Magic Home RGBW device still works however.

Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant):

lights.yaml
  - platform: flux_led
    automatic_add: true
    devices:
      192.x.x.x:
        name: Bookshelf Dimmer
        mode: "w"
      192.x.x.x:
        name: Bookshelf Top Dimmer
        mode: "w"
      192.x.x.x:
        name: Kitchen Cabinets
        mode: "rgbw"

automations.yaml
  - alias: Bookshelf Lights - Dimming
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: light.office_desk_lamp
    action:
     - service: light.turn_on
       entity_id: light.bookshelf_top_dimmer
       data_template:
         brightness: '{{ states.light.office_desk_lamp.attributes.brightness | int }}'
     - service: light.turn_on
       entity_id: light.bookshelf_dimmer
       data_template:
         brightness: '{{ states.light.office_desk_lamp.attributes.brightness | int }}'

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About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 21 (14 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

I’m hurrying up, i hope that tomorrow I can put a pull request to the underlying module, because there are fixes needed before it can going smoothly in homeassistant.

autinerd on Apr 3, 2019

Hi, I just wanted to quickly chime in as a major contributor to the Arilux firmware with distinct knowledge of flux_led/MagicHome: flux_led is pretty bad IMHO (not our implementation, I mean the firmware that implements the magichome protocol), I strongly suggest that you put ESPHome on the device instead if you can. The ESPHome documentation already has pinouts and stuff for Arilux and other MagicHome/flux_led devices, yours might already be there. The config can be this simple. Anyway, that’s my piece, toodles.

robbiet480 on Apr 4, 2019

I concur. I’m seeing the same behavior. Previous to 0.90 I did not have this problem. In fact, it’s not clear the intent of the fix in PR #20733 by @autinerd which introduced this new break.

e1miran on Mar 26, 2019