# LED strips for dummies
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230
**Category:** Hardware
**Created:** [30 August 2020 19:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230 "2020-08-30T19:22:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ristomatti](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ristomatti)
#### Post date: [29 September 2020 19:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230/121 "2020-09-29T19:44:03Z")
> [@wb666greene](#):
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> is the command I'd use to animate. Each of the 5 hex digit pairs in the message controls one channel: RRGGBBWWCW
Uh the command format gives me a headache but glad that I was able to help!
> [@wb666greene](#):
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> Is there a way to turn off the status messages?
Any chance if somehow applies to you (I've got no personal experience of Home Assistant, Tasmota never mind the mentioned admin thing)?
Edit: oops forgot to add the link yesterday. 😂 Now only if I find it again...
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### Author:  [@wb666greene](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/wb666greene)
#### Post date: [30 September 2020 03:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230/122 "2020-09-30T03:03:02Z")
> [@TotallyInformation](#):
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> Yep, create your own custom firmware
I don't have the time, and am not really interested in diving into ESP32 programming right now. I may go that way eventually, but for now I can play with some color animation ideas without building any hardware or learning a new development system. Clearly 99+% of what is in tasmota is not ever going to be useful to me.
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### Author:  [@ristomatti](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ristomatti)
#### Post date: [30 September 2020 08:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230/123 "2020-09-30T08:01:51Z")
Forgotten link from my previous post: [https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-my-sonoffs-tasmota-keep-spamming-mqtt-status-messages/78250](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/solved-my-sonoffs-tasmota-keep-spamming-mqtt-status-messages/78250)
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### Author:  [@wb666greene](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/wb666greene)
#### Post date: [30 September 2020 14:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230/124 "2020-09-30T14:00:13Z")
Thanks, but unless the TasAdmin add-on is now part of the current release I didn't install it.
I seem to have got rid of a lot of the chatty messages with:
mosquitto\_pub -t "cmnd/tasmota/StateText1" -m "1"
mosquitto\_pub -t "cmnd/tasmota/TelePeriod" -m "7200"
Thanks, you have been very helpful.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [29 November 2020 14:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strips-for-dummies/32230/125 "2020-11-29T14:00:15Z")
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