ESPHome-WLED Device Manager
Dominic Grimm Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
ESPHome-WLED Device Manager is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Dominic Grimm. Requires iOS 17. Updated September 9, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 11 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 9
- 2026 · v2.8.0
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About ESPHome-WLED Device Manager
ESPHome-WLED Device Manager is a powerful native iOS, iPad, and Apple Watch app for discovering and controlling your smart home devices on your local network. Recommended ESPHome Component For the best experience, add the webserver_listcomponents (https://github.com/domgrimm/esphome-webserver-listcomponents) external component to your ESPHome config. It enables fast, reliable entity discovery with full metadata support. ESPHome Device Control • Automatic network discovery via Bonjour/mDNS • Full component support: switches, lights, fans, covers, sensors, climate, numbers, selects, buttons, text, time, and alarm control panels • Native API with Noise encryption for secure, real-time communication • Live log streaming and Server-Sent Events for instant state updates • HTTP Basic authentication support • Manual device addition for devices outside your local network WLED Advanced Control • Power, brightness, and full effect/palette management • Segment management with blend modes and transition styles • Live LED preview via WebSocket for 1D strips and 2D matrices • Native gradient palette editor with WLED JSON codec • PixelForge tools for WLED 0.16+: Pixel Paint, Image Tool, and Scrolling Text • LittleFS file browser and custom palette management Widgets • Device Hub widget shows multiple ESPHome and WLED devices in an Apple Home-style layout • Device Control widget displays individual components or WLED segments with interactive toggle • Both widgets support small and medium sizes with AppIntent-driven configuration iPad Optimized • Two-column NavigationSplitView with sidebar device list • Balanced split-view layout for efficient device browsing and control • Adaptive interface that responds to size class changes Apple Watch • Full watchOS companion app with device discovery and control • Digital Crown brightness control with haptic feedback for WLED • Effect and palette wheel pickers with live color preview • Manual device sync from your iPhone via App Groups ESPHome-WLED Device Manager runs entirely on your local network — no cloud services, no accounts, and no tracking. Your devices stay under your control. Requires ESPHome or WLED devices on your local network. Supports current ESPHome firmware with entity-name-based URL paths and API 1.14+ native handshake.
What’s new
Version 2.8.0 · Updated September 9, 2026
• Full control for HTTP-less ESPHome devices. Devices reachable only via the native API can now control fans, covers, climate, numbers, selects, buttons, locks, media players, alarm panels, and text fields — not just switches and lights. • Live state updates over the native API. Sensor and entity states now stream in real time even when a device has no web server. • ESPHome lock support. Lock/unlock/open controls for devices with lock components. • WLED Presets. Apply, save, rename, and delete presets; cycle through saved scenes right from the device screen. • WLED Playlists. Browse and apply saved playlists. • WLED UDP Sync. Toggle sync send/receive to make multiple WLED strips act together. • WLED Nightlight. Fade strips to a target brightness over a duration, straight from the app. • Reliability fixes for Control Center toggles and the widget component picker.
App privacy
The developer, Dominic Grimm, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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