Elgato Key Lights Get Matter Improve

[Michael H Thiesen] had a few Elgato Key Lights in his dwelling streaming setup. The solely downside was that they might cease responding often, requiring an influence cycle to get them going once more. He by no means fairly pinned down the place the issue lay; as a substitute, he set about replacing the light controllers wholesale to provide more reliable functionality.

In place of the unique controllers, a pair of ESP32-C3 boards had been substituted in. The authentic design merely had a Realtek controller chip wired right into a PCA9635 LED controller, so the swap was as straightforward as plucking one out and wiring the brand new microcontroller as a substitute. The succesful ESP32-C3 affords native Matter help, which enabled the brand new controllers to hitch [Michael’s] Apple Home setup natively. Running a firmware coded in Rust, the controllers supply energy, brightness, and colour-temperature management proper in Apple Home. As a bonus, there was no want to make use of Homebridge to get the lights hooked as much as the smarthome setup anymore, eliminating a dependency and a potential supply of occasional failures.

Design recordsdata are on Github for the curious. We’ve featured different nice Elgato hacks earlier than, too, like this nifty capture card firmware hack. If you’re tinkering with your personal smarthome hacks, you should definitely tell us on the tipsline.