HALight :: setRGBColor

[selfjc]

I am trying to back my way into creating an RGB light using HALight for the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. I use the WifiNina RGB LED to give a current status of the Nano to Home Assistant connection. For example,

• Red = not connected to wifi or mqtt
• Green, not blinking = connected to wifi
• Green one second then, blink to Blue one second, and repeat = connected to wifi and mqtt (all operations normal)

When I do this call:

nanoRGB.setRGBColor( "255,255,0", true ); // publish RBG color

I receive the following compile error in Arduino IDE 2.1.1.:

error: no matching function for call to 'HALight::setRGBColor(const char [10], bool)'

When I go to read through the constructor/definition void HALight::RGBColor::fromBuffer(const uint8_t* data, const uint16_t length) I don't know what to do exactly.

How does one "fake" (that is within the C/C++ Arduino code) an MQTT command from Home Assistant into the HALight::setRGBColor so that the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect's WifiNina RGB LED color reports back to Home Assistant?

[selfjc]

I figured out how to build the data structure from cpp.com for :
struct HALight::RGBColor color(ledRstate, ledGstate, ledBstate); nanoRGB.setRGBColor(color);

Where the LED state variables are integers defined and set elsewhere per the blink algorithms.
// declared and initialized to zero int ledBstate = 0; int ledGstate = 0; int ledRstate = 0;

Seems to work, but needs a few tweaks for how the NinaWifi accepts LED color states on the analogWrite versus how the HALight::RGBColor structure wants to accept the LED color states.