Stair step led

Anything like this you are going to have to use individually addressable LEDs (neopixels), just in case you didn’t already know the difference between analog and digital LED strips. There isn’t a great neopixel implementation with ST that I’ve been able to find. People are actively working on them though since the strips have come down so much in price. There are a bunch of controllers out there for Home Assistant and I’ve been looking to try and get the HA/ST MQTT bridge working but haven’t done that yet. But if you already have that done there are some great neopixel implementations there.

There are a couple folks that have gotten things to work in ST but they are a totally seamless integration.