Home Assistant is brilliant for running your smart home, and plenty of F1 fans have tried to bolt race lighting onto it. The problem is there is no off-the-shelf live F1 flag feed, so you end up maintaining custom automations, webhooks and timing hacks that break the moment a data source changes.
Race RGB is purpose-built for exactly this. It connects to your Philips Hue, LIFX or Govee lights directly and reacts to every flag in real time, calibrated to your broadcast delay. Those are the same lights you already expose in Home Assistant, so nothing has to be ripped out.
The DIY Home Assistant route
- Find and maintain a live flag data source
- Write automations, templates and webhooks
- Hand-tune broadcast delay every time
- Fix it whenever an API changes
The Race RGB route
- Connect your lights once
- Every flag handled for you, in real time
- One-click broadcast-delay calibration
- Personalise colour, effect and hold time per flag
Works alongside Home Assistant
Controls the same Hue, LIFX and Govee lights you already use in Home Assistant
Only takes over your lights while a session is live and Race RGB is running
Your everyday Home Assistant scenes and automations stay untouched
No native Home Assistant add-on required to get started
Want a native Home Assistant integration?
It is on our radar. If a first-class Home Assistant add-on would make your setup, tell us, the more interest we see, the sooner we build it.
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Does Race RGB integrate with Home Assistant?
Not as a native integration today. Race RGB controls your Philips Hue, LIFX and Govee lights directly, the same lights you likely already have in Home Assistant, so the two run side by side without conflict. A native Home Assistant integration is on our radar; email [email protected] to register interest and we will prioritise it.
Can I get F1 flag lighting without building Home Assistant automations?
Yes. That is the whole point of Race RGB. Instead of wiring up webhooks, templates and automations yourself, you connect your lights once and Race RGB handles the live race feed, the flag logic and the broadcast-delay timing for you.
Will Race RGB interfere with my Home Assistant setup?
No. Race RGB only changes your lights while a session is running and you have it active. The rest of the time your normal Home Assistant automations and scenes work exactly as before.
Which lights does Race RGB control?
Philips Hue (via the Hue Bridge), LIFX and Govee over Wi-Fi, with Govee also supported over the local network in the desktop app. Nanoleaf is coming in 2026.
Skip the automations, keep the magic
Race RGB gives you live F1 flag lighting in minutes, alongside the smart home you already run. Free race-weekend trial.