WLED how to use segments
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- Using the back of my house as an example we will go through all the stuff that segments can do with your lights.
Segments are easier when you know the numerical order of your lights. Knowing where your first LED is and the path they follow to the last LED will help when setting up segments. It's easy if you are only using one controller output, but if using more than one it can get a little confusing. I usually use an effect like candy cane to see what direction my lights are flowing then make adjustments in the LED Preferences section to get them all moving in one direction, which usually consists of reverse rotating(180deg) on one output until they flow in one direction. Check my site if you're interested in these kits. Thanks
All lights sold at showhomelighting.com
0:00 Intro
Grouping and spacing 1:00
Creating multiple segments 2:55 - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Nice explainer. Thanks. It will help me with my bike frame project!
Thanks for this. Helped a ton, been looking for other ways to use my lights when it isn't the holidays.
No problem, most our customers use them year round with some sort of segmented white lighting.
good video, exactly what I needed to know for my first project.
well explained! Thank you!
Thank you, been driving myself crazy trying to figure it.
Glad it helped!
Great video!
Thank you!
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Thanks for this video, may you know if there is a possibility to create seamless transitions between the segments?
If you set the spacing to 0 it won’t leave empty pixels between transitions giving it a more seamless look. I believe. I’m only a week into my wled learnings.
I’m looking to install permanent lights on my exterior and I’m wondering what type of lights your using? I’ve seen the strip lights as well as the individual pixel bulbs in the permatrack. Your setup looks great!
Thanks! I used my own brand of lights from showhomelighting.com. We should have a black Friday sale in the next couple days if you're interested.
@@showhomelighting5840 so is it LED strip lights or individual bulbs? An yes I am definitely interested
They are the individual bulbs in an aluminum track. We sell strip lights too but the ones on my house are the individual ones in the track.
Thank you for the video. It has helped me. There are some buggy issues I’ve been fighting. Specifically, when applying a segment, it just deletes itself immediately.
interesting, do you lose your presets as well? how are you flashing your board?
@@showhomelighting5840 Nope. I don't lose the presets. Just when adding segments, hitting the check mark for apply deletes the segment. I flash the board using OTA and I'm running v0.13.0-b5. I had the same issue in the last version and it happens on the PC as well as my phone.
I would be interested to see if you flashed the latest 13.3 with the web installer instead of OTA and see if that still happens. I was having issues when flashing with Esp home flasher loosing settings/presets/segments constantly. File system was to small, using the web installer stopped that from happening.
@@showhomelighting5840 looks like updating to v13.3 might have fixed it. Thank you!
Have you noticed a max of 16 or 17 presets? Like WLED is out of memory?
thank you very much for the great videos. I am looking for a way to simulate connecting the ends. I have one segment that ends at the same location as the start. I want it to loop without an obvious seam. Can someone give me hints how to create a continuous loop. I know you cant connect the two end electronically. But visually I want a continuous loop,
i under Stand the settings for the count of the LEDs, but what is the part about it? Where it says SK6812 RGBW where does that setting need to be? I understand the LEDs are RGB. I'm assuming that's for different model numbers where do I find that in the package. We didn't talk about that setting. I'm not sure if that's important.
Thank you this made segmenting understandable and approachable now. I have a request since you brought up the idea of the lights being used for architectural accent. Could you help me with only designating certain LED lights to be on like for instance: I only want the corners of the roof each with two or three LEDs on at each of my roof's corners and then in the center of each section of the house two or three LED's on and then two or three LEDs on at the very top of the peak of my roof above the garage. Any help would be greatly appreciated and I do know the number of LED at each section of my roof.
Hey, If you want to set it up like that you just need to find out where your lights start, then count your lights. for example if one of the lights you want to come on is led #50 then create a segment and make the start led 49 and stop led 50. Maybe watch this video to help explain. th-cam.com/video/thORdpkEDPE/w-d-xo.html
The hot tube preset sounds like an adult film. 😂🤣
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Very good explanation. Thanks for your time.
I have a different scenario. I have 2 ESP32 modules in sync running 2 separate led strips. Is there a way to set the second module as a segment of the first? I could then activate effects which start on the first led strip and end at the second one. Right now simple sync only activates the same effect on both modules which is not my desired behavior.
Sorry I don't believe there is a way to make the second module a segment of the other module, the sync function will only do just that, sync the same effect as the master.
is there any chance to create just one segment from led 145 - 180 & 0 - 36 ? Its my screen, start & end is in middle . The effects also differ from the 70 leds segment (length) & the two segments.
Ya you can start and end at any point, but would need to do the 145-180 in one segment and the 0-36 in another.
Couldn’t quite understand how to segment multiple outputs on something like a digquad. Do you happen to know how to do that ?
For a Digi quad you would probably need to set up each output as it's own segment, which you can do in the LED settings.
Is there any way to make 3 different controllers with 3 different strips flow seamlessly like one strip? As if the pattern would continue across all strips eg. 60+20+300 lights act as one 380 light strip.
There is a way to do it yes, I have never tried it though. I'll try it tonight and see if it actually works. If it does I can post a video on it.
@@showhomelighting5840 ok great. Looking forward to that. Thanks a lot!
@@kevin4rsl I tried last night, I could sync the controllers easy but could not set each controller up a its own segment so that would flow as one strip. Still determined to find a way.
@@showhomelighting5840 ok thanks for the feedback. Try using the reverse feature together with segments on one of the controllers. Not sure if that would work.
@@kevin4rsl I did but it just makes them come into the middle instead of flowing in one direction. I could get it to flow fine in one direction it's just not seamless. I'll post a video tonight or tomorrow on syncing controllers and you'll see what I mean.
u thanks!
How did You get the LEDs to go from the left to the right instead of center outwards? What part of the setting did u change? Is it in segments or led preferences?
Led preferences, on each output there is check box to reverse rotate that output.
I have a 6812 (12v) tape, but the segment does not work on it. What is the reason for this?
the second question is: why do you have 2 tapes specified in LED Preferences in LED Outputs?
Not all tapes are the same, depends how many LEDs per node on the tape. Mine have 3 leds per node, so I can segemtb out groups of 3 LEDs or control every three leds separately. Cheaper string might not have that option. And I have two leds outputs set up because my controller has two outputs. Thanks!
hi, does have esp 32controller sound sensetive?
Hey, the controller I built does not have an audio input but you can use a program like ledfx on a pc to make the lights sound reactive. There are other people out there that sell sound reactive boards that work with WLED.
I can’t find the wled app on my iPhone App Store 😢
Ya there is an issue with Apple app store, they say it should be back up in a day or two. It's still available on the Google play store.
can i add an external push button to start each preset ( without using my phone ) ?
Yes you can link presets to GPIO buttons but it's a bit of a long process. There is info on doing this in the WLED discord group.
@showhomelighting5840 my goal is to create a specific template that I can start with a press of a button ( not a cell phone ). If technically it can work i will invest time and money to learn and buy Wled
What kind of lights are you using?
Hey, I actually sell them. I make DIY kits that are all plug and play. You can check out my website at showhomelighting.com.
@@showhomelighting5840 are the lights in this video pointed down towards the ground, or out toward the camera?
@Daniel Sullivan they are pointing at the ground. If you check the video on how to install the the track you'll see how they are installed. Thanks!
A beginner in Into the Wled Light thing... but need help to light up a whole strip of lights...
Do you have the number of leds set up properly in the LED configurations?
Dude this shit is like witchcraft lol
LOL only until you get a hang of it, I still forget how to do stuff if I don't do it very often.
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