Pixelblaze controller for Home Assistant

This is a custom component integration to allow control of Pixelblaze devices in Home Assistant. It incorporates the pixelblaze-client, so many thanks to zranger1 for all the great work there.

This component appears to home assistant as a light device which you can control the brightness, start the sequencer, set the pattern from the installed pattern list, and if the pattern supports it, a single color picker. This works well with the Light Entity Card

Known Issues

This component will not poll the pixelblaze for current state. If a pattern is selected outside of the component, it will not be updated in HA. There is no support to control any custom slider at the moment

Installing

Manual steps:

Download or clone this project, and place the custom_components folder and its contents into your Home Assistant config folder.
Ensure light.py and related files are located in a folder named pixelblaze within the custom_components folder.

Configuration

Please be sure to close any web interfaces directly to the Pixelblaze during setup, or while you are controlling it. See Known Issues of the python client. There are multiple ways this can be configured

Integrations Page

This is the preferred method.

Goto the Configuration -> Integrations page.
On the bottom right of the page, click on the Orange + sign to add an integration.
Search for Pixelblaze. (If you don't see it, try refreshing your browser page to reload the cache.)
Enter the required information.

Fields name	Type	Required	Default	Description
Host	Textbox	+	-	Hostname or IP address to access Pixelblaze device

No reboot is required.

Configuration.yaml

While this still works, it will be deprecated in the future. Please use Integrations. Once the files are downloaded, you’ll need to update your config to include the following under the pixelblaze domain:

pixelblaze:
  - host: my_pixelblaze_hostname.my.domain
    name: kitchen_lamp
  - host: 10.10.10.10
    name: living_room_tv

restart and it works