I made a night light for my son and just used V_VARs
I used the fastLED library And this code to decode from 255,255,255 that I was sending from the controller
https://codebender.cc/sketch:90239
Last time it came up http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1148/need-help-with-turning-a-led-on-off-with-openhab-and-mqtt/4