yvonne asked 5 years ago
Dear Rui and Sara,
Thank you for all the nice tutorials and help you offer.
I installed Node-Red on my RaspberryPi. I installed the Neopixels node in Node-Red (rpi-NeoPixels) and I attached the WS2812B to my Raspi and all works perfect. That is your tutorial Node-Red with WS2812B Addressabel RGB LED strip
The problem is that I want to physically separate the Raspberry Pi and the Led string. But they are physically attached. So I decided to attach the WS2812B to a NodeMCU and connect it through MQTT to my NodeRed website on the Raspi. But then I can’t use the rpi-Neopixels node.
Is there a solution for this problem?
I hope I could express myself to make clear what my problem is.
Thank you so much for the helping hand.
Kind regards,
Yvonne de Vries
Rui Santos Staff answered 5 years ago
Hello Yvonne, you need to write custom code to create an ESP8266 (NodeMCU) MQTT Client that receives the MQTT messages from Node-RED to control the neopixels strip.
Basically, that Node-RED nodes (rpi-neopixels) only works with neopixels directly connected to your RPi.
Regards,
Rui