Expose white channel as a separate light from RGB in Home Assistant about esp-mqtt-rgb-led

[corbanmailloux]

(Note: This discussion is continued from #35)

I think I understand the issue you're having (please check that the issue title is correct).
I'll experiment with this. I don't really like the idea of exposing two lights in Home Assistant for this purpose, when Home Assistant already supports the white channel. Let me play with the interaction between this code and Home Assistant to see what the options are.

[moskovskiy82]

Yes! Thank you. The title reflects it. I can provide a link to github project which i have used previously. There it exposes 2 lights. Not the best approach either but might it help?

[corbanmailloux]

If you have a reference you could share, that might be helpful.

Thanks.

[moskovskiy82]

https://github.com/open-homeautomation/h801 this is the project i have used for H801 which is a chinese ESP8266 based rgbww module

[moskovskiy82]

Any hope on progress?

[corbanmailloux]

I'm still not sure that this is the right approach. If this is added, I'll include it as a configuration option.
I'm not actively working on this proposal at the moment, but I'll continue to track it here as an issue.
#43 introduces some major changes and rework, but after that is merged I'll look into the effect of adding a configuration option for this. I'd also welcome a PR adding this.

Thanks for you patience.