esphome-docs/components/light/rgbw.rst
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RGBW Light
==========
.. seo::
:description: Instructions for setting up RGB + White-Channel lights.
:image: rgbw.png
The ``rgbw`` light platform creates an RGBW light from 4 :ref:`float output components <output>` (one for each channel).
.. code-block:: yaml
# Example configuration entry
light:
- platform: rgbw
name: "Livingroom Lights"
red: output_component1
green: output_component2
blue: output_component3
white: output_component4
Color Correction
----------------
It is often favourable to calibrate/correct the color produced by an LED strip light as the
perceived intensity of different colors will generally vary. This can be done by using
:ref:`max_power <config-output>` on individual output channels:
.. code-block:: yaml
# Example configuration entry
light:
- platform: rgbw
name: "Livingroom Lights"
red: output_component1
green: output_component2
blue: output_component3
white: output_component4
# Example output entry
output:
- platform: esp8266_pwm
id: output_component1
pin: D1
max_power: 80%
Configuration variables:
------------------------
- **name** (**Required**, string): The name of the light.
- **red** (**Required**, :ref:`config-id`): The id of the float :ref:`output` to use for the red channel.
- **green** (**Required**, :ref:`config-id`): The id of the float :ref:`output` to use for the green channel.
- **blue** (**Required**, :ref:`config-id`): The id of the float :ref:`output` to use for the blue channel.
- **white** (**Required**, :ref:`config-id`): The id of the float :ref:`output` to use for the white channel.
- **effects** (*Optional*, list): A list of :ref:`light effects <light-effects>` to use for this light.
- **id** (*Optional*, :ref:`config-id`): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
- All other options from :ref:`Light <config-light>`.
See Also
--------
- :doc:`/components/output/index`
- :doc:`/components/light/index`
- :doc:`/components/light/rgb`
- :doc:`/components/power_supply`
- :doc:`/components/output/ledc`
- :doc:`/components/output/esp8266_pwm`
- :doc:`/components/output/pca9685`
- :doc:`/components/output/tlc59208f`
- :doc:`/components/output/my9231`
- :doc:`/components/output/sm16716`
- :apiref:`rgbw/rgb_light_output.h`
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