I am a software developer with limited experience with hardware. I once made an RGB LED strip glow rainbow via an Arduino board- and that's about it.

I am beginning a project which will require a python program on PC to prompt the Pi to flash eight LEDs white one by one, and then flash either red or green depending on input from the PC program. in addition to a power supply, I have the components below.

• Orange Pi 5B
• RGBW Lights

I think what I will have to do is set up some sort of MQTT/Mosquito style connection between my PC and Pi, but I do not fully understand the scope of that connection.

My questions are

• Is there a better way to do this?
• Is this hardware going to limit the effectiveness of this project, and if so, what would fit better?

Thank you very much.