How to install WLED on ESP8266 and connect to WS2812B strip lights
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Downloads:
ESP Home Flasher: github.com/esphome/esphome-flasher/releases
WLED Software Download: github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/releases
Drivers (if needed) If nothing shows up in Home Flasher after pugging in the ESP8266 module, you might need to install drivers. Download Drivers: www.silabs.com/developers/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers
Link to WLED Animation Guide:
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this video and your older video too me from complete stress to finished.. i cannot thank you enough for making this so easy! Really!!
Thanks again buddy!
Very helpful and detailed. No fuss. Love it 🙂
Thanks!! Glad you like it and thanks so much for watching.
No fuss and no fuse I don't know about that
Thanks for the intro to WLED. I’ve been using FASTLED and the Arduino IDE till now so it’s cool to learn a new approach
I've never used Fastled but have heard good things! Does that approach require any programming knowlege?
@@ChrisMaherDIY it does, needs scripts writing for it to run
Thank you so much for your tutorials!!!!!! You are the best on youtube!!!!
All of your vids have been super informational. Thanks!
Thanks for this !!!!! 1st time wiring up a hexa-leaf and was a little lost. this got me up and going super quick!👍👍👍
You are very welcome! thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Appreciate it!
Great info. I am new to LED controllers and need some to the point and simple instructions!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video! Mine would not show up on the flasher until I installed the driver you provided. Thank you!
Love this, always looking for cool led lighting options. Not sure if you already have a video on this but would love to see, the board used in a project as to where you hide the board and how you wire the light strips to it in said project.
Thanks so much for watching! In this video I go into a lot of the wiring and soldering. th-cam.com/video/56h5jSLMUH0/w-d-xo.html but I really have not focused anything on where I hide the components yet. Good idea for a future project!
@@ChrisMaherDIY yea I’d definitely love to see how you hide the board and power supply. As an electrician I’d love to be able to offer this type of lighting to clients but would have to be able to put the board into an enclosure and maybe even use old work boxes or something to cut into walls and hide these boards then with a blank cover.
For instance when I do undercabinet lighting jobs I try and hide my transformers and such behind draw bases of lower cabinets. Then using a 14/2 in wall wire I can fish up to the bottom of the upper cabinets and solder to my led lights. So I’d love to be able to maintain sleekness and keep everything hidden if I were to start offering smart lighting like this as well.
Straight to the point and very informative! Just subscribed
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the sub!
thanks for a really clear and excellent tutorial.
Love it man! This is super helpful! Appreciate it
Thanks buddy!
Very Good Tutorial , Thank you for taking the time to make it.
Thank you so much for watching and thanks for taking the time to comment! I'm glad you liked the video!
Very well done video. I have a ton of these LED strips from a megatree that I no longer use. This will recycle those strips. Using your Amazon code, I also bought 6 of the ESP boards, Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching and for the support! That means a lot! Glad you liked the video! That's the good thing with led strips, in my experience they are pretty durable and last a long time so you can keep reusing them!
Fantastic tutorial! Thanks Chris. And it's refreshing to see you work faith in there. Keep it up.
Thanks so much buddy!! Amen!! Its the most important thing in life and I thank the Lord for every day I'm able to wake up and spend time with my family!
Very well explained, and the noob like me understood very well, thank you very much for providing the software, May god bless you
Thanks so much! Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. God bless!
Hello Christ... You are the best... Everything are working fine while I do followed all your directions.,.. Many thanks...
Awesome!! Thanks for taking the time to comment. Glad it worked. Hope you have a great day!
Perfect @Chris Maher, this one helped me out and I had WLED in a fast and simple way!
Now looking for a way to connect my Govee H6110 to WLED....
Thanks so much and glad it helped!!
Hey Chris....thank you for this video. Although I've watched most of your videos, I FINALLY got around to programming my first MCU today and loaded WLED onto an ESP8266 following your instructions here. Worked perfectly.
I have just 2 questions if you happen to get this and are able to respond quickly. Are the same three pins that are used on the 8266 MCU the same pins you use for an ESP32?? If not, which pins do I use on an ESP32? And second, is there an advantage to run an ESP32 over an ESP8266 MCU for WLED? If so, what are those advantages? Thank you!!!
Thanks for the beautiful briefing
My light would not light at all until flashed. This was amazing and helpful and I appreciate your work and dedication to us. My only question is do you put this in a case or anything? I have to figure out how to mount this to my couch and table. Thanks again!
Thanks so much!! I really have not put these in a case but i've seen others use travel soap containers like this to house it: amzn.to/3wNx6d2
Nice explanation. Thanks!
Thanks so much for this!
You are very welcome! Thanks so much for watching!
Oh man you are a lifesaver, thank you 🙏.
You are very welcome! Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!
Amazing tutorial! Keep it up.
Thanks so much!!
Great jobb. Really helpful and properly explained. 👍🏻
Thanks again!
Very clear and concise , easy to follow . This is the one to watch. Thank you so much for sharing you knowledge .
amazing video man! worked perf!
Thanks so much! Glad it worked for you. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
Very helpful could you possibly make a video showing how to setup sync interfaces
Thanks Chris!
You are very welcome! Thanks so much for watching!
Very helpful, thanks
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. Your video are very COMPREHENSIVE. Now I can set up My HyperHDR + ESP8266+ WLED + SK6812 everything on wireless
Great video! This is not only cheaper than buying a wi-fi controller but also has way better effects, but I am wondering - how many leds can you connect before you damage the esp
Thanks so much and i'm glad you liked the video! I'm not entirely sure how many you can control! With only powering it the way I have in the video, you will eventually have enough voltage drop that the colors will fade as you go along the strip. With higher power, i've done a couple things with about 1000 leds and no issues at all but that is definitly not powering everything through the esp board. In this video, i go into a little bit more of different power options that have worked for me: th-cam.com/video/KFtjf5mD6tA/w-d-xo.html
Read some where you can control over 2000 leds
Very cool. Thanks!
Agreed
Thanks so much!! Glad you liked the video. Hope it helped!
Hey Chris! Awesome content bro. I was wondering if you had a way to add some sort of protective case/box for the ESP8266? Im looking to install some lighting on a wagon. Im hoping to make it as weather sealed as possible. Any tips?
Can't thank you enough for this video man!!
Your very welcome! Glad you liked it!
Windows 11 is just coming out lately, but, you are using Windows 64! Amazing!
Lol what can I say, I'm old school. Thanks for watching!
thank you!!!!! 🙌🙌👏👏
You are very welcome and thanks for watching!
Great info and video.
New sub.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support!
Super helpful! Could you also do a video (or if you have a link to someone else) on wiring it up starting from a cut LED strip? I would love to use some leftovers (so it doesn't have those starting wires)
Yeah i can for sure try putting a video together on that hopefully soon! Are you comfortable soldering or no?
@@ChrisMaherDIY Recently started to do it, so getting comfortable. It was actuslly one of your LED videos that led me to try it.
@@yoseflugashi9820 that's so cool! Yeah I'm not very good at it yet but I'm good enough to make it work and thats all that matters lol. Maybe I can make a video on how to do it with soldering and without soldering. Thanks for the comment!
You can order the jst connectors on Amazon, they're super cheap. Just solder em on.
Hey Chris, Iove all your videos. Watched many of them multiple times. I'm just starting and learning how all this is done. Just order from Amazon pretty much everything you listed. Can you help me with downloading a Mac version of the software? I noticed you used a PC, which I don't use. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks😁
Hey Chris, I got the 5v 8 amp 40 watt driver in - hooked that up (Even just used the breadboard connectors) and set it to 4000mA, no issues. I set it to 2500mA now and am going to let it run for a bit to see what happens. I no longer feel heat with on the ESP8266 board so I think the actual issue is the USB port used for powering is just a bad idea, it generates way to much heat as I described before and read on another message board. So..I think maybe now the issues are all resolved..and my lights are of course way brighter now too (2500mA from 850 or even 1000 makes a huge difference!)
That's awesome it's working well and thanks for keeping me informed through all your troubleshooting! Your going to sleep good tonight now that it seems like it's all figured out!! I still have to try the chargers but my guess is if I keep them on for a long time it will probaby not work just like you experienced!
@@ChrisMaherDIY haha for sure! I sleep good Sundays anyway since I have to get up at like 6am - I am the first or second one in the sanctuary to start prepping for service =D
My only concern now with the lights is if the breadboard wires can handle the current. I might have to upgrade..and that means soldering to the board which I really don't wanna have to do haha.
@@NewYears1978 Early bird gets the worm! Yeah i faught soldering for a long time but then I just ripped the bandaid off and went for it. Not going to lie, I dont enjoy it but its also not as bad as I was thinking lol and the creative part of my mind does enjoy learning a new skill!
Very nice video. I watched now a couple of your videos and I probably start my own project with WLED. But can I also use the ESP8266-01S for this projects?
Excellent video. Helped this NOOB tremendously. Next question...Whicpins do I use for an external power supply rather than the micro usb. Sorry if you covered this already.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! So for an external supply, you would connect the power (positive) to to the VIN pin and ground (negative) to the GND pin on the esp board. Then you would not need to plug the micro into the esp device. Then the led strip would need the power and ground to it from the power supply and then the data from the eps device to the data pin on the led strip. Hope that makes sense! I go over this in this video: th-cam.com/video/TOEnFKLm9Sw/w-d-xo.html and even though I use an esp32 instead of 8266, its pretty much the same!
Thanks for the response. I had an idea that was how to do it but wanted to be sure.
Very helpful vdo and i love it. thanks. Not sure why my led lights strip of 29 only light up two led 😪😪☹☹
love your wifi name!! XD
Thanks buddy! Its really the only thing that matters in life :) Hope you have a blessed day!!
Hi, this has been a real education for me in the past few hours, so thank you!
Is there a COB, RGBWIC LED strip available? I'd like to use something with a dedicated white and the COB just looks much better than anything else.
Thank you!
Absolutely amazing content and simplified for me as a newby. Thank you. Does WLED let us program which lights are which color (static color, not a moving affect)? I want to make a logo/sign. e.g. first 50 LEDs will be Red, the next 20 LEDs Blue, followed by another 10 LEDs Green maybe. How do we setup that segmenting in WLED?
Thanks so much for watching and great question! WLED does let you do exactly what your describing. You can easily create different segments with whatever leds you want in them and then you can select a specific segment to be a certain color or run a specific animation. Hope that answers your question!
Very helpful video. Can you control this with Alexa or any of the other smart home brands?
Thanks so much! You can control it with Alexa and I believe Google home. It may work with others as well. I honestly have never tried doing this so I'm not sure how it's done or if it's super easy or requires a few steps. This is certainly something I need to look into! Great question and thanks again for watching!
Update to my last 500 comments =D
Well I got both setup and they've run fine for a day and still working today. The heat issue only happens if I put it at 2,000 mA it seems. I am running one at 850mA limiter and the other at 1500mA both using a phone charger (5V 2a) - I have had no issues with these.
Before when I would change over 850mA sometimes the lights or board would freeze up or some diodes would change colors incorrectly and then the board would freeze up. so there was clearly either something faulty with the ESP boards or the charger. But I tried 3 diff power sources (USB Charging hub, another direct 5V power source I have, and the phone charger) and all had the same weird results. So with these new ESP boards none of those issues happened so I think those boards were faulty.
The one I purchased this time was called KeeYees, 15.99 for a 3 pack so actually cheaper than the HitLego. Everything works properly here. The 1500mA is a little weak due to my channel depth but I could change the power source later..for now I am happy =D
I'll give you a final report later and maybe some pics, assuming it keeps working for a few days haha.
So glad its working better with the ones! I'll have to try them and maybe switch to those after your experience! If your experience with leds was my first experience, I probably would have quit lol. But i'm sure you can now probably flash and wire these things up in your sleep now lol!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thanks brother! They are still working. I even set one of them to 2,000 mA and it still worked fine (scared to leave it at that but still)
@@ChrisMaherDIY You won't believe this. One of the boards died! I think it was due to setting a higher mA limiter. I had it on 1500mA for a few days no issues, I put it on 1850 just for a few hours and the board died. This is unbelievable.
When I read online it says something about the USB ports on these boards overvolting and usually they will work for awhile but then die due to heat. But don't you power many of yours with the usb port?
Maybe I neeed to switch powering through the pins directly instead or something..but I really didn't wanna mess with all that.
@@NewYears1978 I'm sure powering through the pins is the better option but I've never had an issue using the usb port on any of mine. However, I also never have them turned on for long periods of time. I genereally will turn them on at night for an hour or so when i'm listening to music in my basement and then turn them off when I'm done. So maybe i'm not giving mine enough time to heat up and potentialy fail?
@@ChrisMaherDIY Yeah I think that might be the case. I think the USB port gets too hot and the longer they run the hotter they get. Maybe at 850mA the heat generation is limited but once you pump it higher it overheats. It also could be due to the LED's overdriving the phone charger and that generating too much heat.
I ordered a normal power supply 50W 10 Amp from BTP (or whatever it's called) and I will try powering it from the pins and see if that helps.
I keep seeing videos where people use a resistor on the data wire, but other videos say it is not required (so I dunno who is correct on that)
Hey there mate, just found your channel and love the content, giving me the itch to try and setup some rgb strips with your methods.
coming from germany, i don't have the same options on esp32 boards and same other components.
My question would be: can i just pick whatever i find but says ESP32 controller, or should i look for something special in them?
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Glad you are liking some of the videos! My understanding is most esp32 boards are about the same so any one should do the trick!
Chris, I've been enjoying your vids a lot as I'm new to custom led installation. I'm looking to install a single 5M white led strip on my deck to start. I'd like to control the power, brightness and timer from my phone. Would you recommend the ESP8266 for the single color strip or is this overkill? Thank you and God bless!
I'll always recomend an esp8266 because its very responsive and I have had very little issues with them at all plus they are about as cheap as you can get for controling leds. With that being said, if you just get a white strip, there are probably a lot of wifi options that come with its own controller that i'm sure would work out just as good. Probably cant go wrong with either one but I would probably lean towards the esp8266 if you dont mind the extra work getting it set up. Thanks alot for watching and for taking the time to comment!
Awesome tutorial! If you want to add different segments of LED strips like not one continuous run, what pin would you connect to on the node?
I could be wrong but I don't know if you can hook up multiple different lines to the same controller via a different pin. I'm not an expert so maybe someone else might know for sure on here. However if you get another controller and hook up the led strip to that, the WLED app will let you control all the lights at once via the sync function. It's super handy! Thanks for watching and the comment!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thanks, I’m in the process of wiring them up and installing them right now. So far I’ve got 4 sixteen foot strips ran from the one D4 pin so we will see!
So here’s my answer…. You can only use one pin (as far as I know) and the longer the run of LED’s the more likely you are to have data issues the further you get from the controller. After running all mine from one pin even having 4 different segments of 6 strips total and even with power injecting on both sides of every strip the longer ones would just blink rapidly random colors. So how many can you run together or how many segments can the one pin effectively operate? It really depends on what effects you are trying to run, how long your wires are to each strip etc. So in my case I ended up using 3 nodes and it works flawlessly. I could be wrong but this is what happened in my case. Hope this helps anyone in the same situation.
@@jbragg2493 hi mate, so I’m doing something similar to you and hope you can help me to get it right.
My run about 25M and I know that need a minimum 3 power injection as I’m using 24V led strips.
My question how many data pin need for this run? And let’s say need 3 data pin where about to connect them in led strip light?
can I use TM512AX led strips for this project?
So what board do you reccomend? This one of the ESP32? What's the difference and why do you use one over the other?
Hey Chris, been watching your vids for the last few days (great content & good soundtracks too 😜)
Couple of questions;
I currently have 20 metres of ws2811 around my living room controlled by 4 preconfigured controllers, with 12v supply every 5 metres to avoid volt drop.
I want to swap them out for esp32, if i use 1 will the data reach 20 metres? also if I use 4 can they fully sync so at the animations start and end at 20 metres?
Any advice is much appreciated.
Leon
Thanks so much for watching and glad you are liking the videos (and music) That's a great question and I'm not 100% sure but I think using 1 esp32 should do the trick. I think it can handle the 20 meters. (might be able to handle it on 1 pin of the esp32 but might have to try using 2 pins potentially. I'm not super familiar with setting things up this way but you should be able to find some videos on the process) If you end up using multiple esp32's I'm not aware of a setting that would allow them to work as 1 single strand. You can sync them all together so that when you change 1 they all change to the same thing but that is not what your wanting. Maybe someone reading this might know of a way and can chime in but I don't think that's possible.
Love this video! Very informative and straight to the point! unfortunately, I can't connect to the ".local" WLED interface after getting a glowing yellow light. Any ideas? Thanks!
hmm i'm stumped on that one as I have not run into that issue! Maybe try watching this guys video and see if he did anything differently that you can try! Let me know if you figure it out as i'm curious myself! th-cam.com/video/9d29SBWA4Qs/w-d-xo.html Thanks for watching!!
I know this is an older video but I need help. When adding power does there not need to be any resistors or capacitors anywhere? Most videos don't mention it but I see some diagrams using them.
Thanks for the help, love all your led projects!
Thanks for watching and great question! This is a question that I still am not sure on. I also see a lot of videos that have them and a lot that dont. It also seems like a lot of the videos that have them never really explain why you need it or what it provides. I wish I knew the answer but i'm just as confused as you are. Let me know if you ever find a video that does a good job explaining it and I'll do the same. There has to be some benefit or reason but I have no idea what it would be lol.
Hey Chris, your videos are super helpful so thank you. I set up an ESP8266 WLED strip and it is connected to my 2.4ghz network. I typically have my phone connected to the 5ghz network. The one thing I can't seem to find info on is - do I need to switch my phone to the 2.4ghz network ever time I want to control WLED from the app? This seems cumbersome and I was wondering how I would control my smart home items from my 5ghz network - or is that impossible. I could get a hub or an alexa or google device and control things that way, but I would love to control through my phione. Any thoughts would help, thx!
Annnnd never mind. I just tried it again and it worked just fine on my home network. Not sure why it didn’t work at first!
How many lights can you connect on one board? Great tutorials by the way!
Thanks so much! I'm not sure if the information I found on the WLED information is just a guide to go off of or if its actually the max but here is what they say:
ESP8266
There is a maximum of 3 strips supported.
It is highly recommended to use two specific LED pins, GPIO1 (TX) and GPIO2 (D4), since they allow for hardware driving.
It is recommended to use 512 LEDs/pin for good performance for a total of 1024 LEDs.
800 LEDs/pin for a total of 1600 has been confirmed working, but is not recommended for good performance and reliability.
Using GPIO1 will disable serial debugging. If you need it, you can't use a strip on this pin.
GPIO3 is the third pin that allows hardware driving on ESP8266. However, it uses 5 times as much memory per LED as GPIO 1 and 2, so use it only for low LED counts (recommended
Thanks for the detailed instruction. By the way can we supply 2m(total 120LED) ws2812B leds from esp8266 vin pin? with 5v 2A phone charger? Thank You...
You are very welcome and thanks for watching! The short answer is yes you can. In this video I made, I'm controlling 200 leds with only a 5v 2a phone charger: th-cam.com/video/Ik8HnGxfQq0/w-d-xo.html However, If I put all the LED's at white, there was definitely a very noticeable color drop. I also had to keep the brightness pretty low in the video. So depending on what you are using them for, it may or may not be good enough. My advice would to be just try it first with the phone charger and see what you think.
Hey Chris, I want to put up some led strips with the way you showed in the video but my plan is to have led strips in different places in the room. How do I connect couple ESP8266 boards together to have the same effect and timing at the same time? I suppose its possible as the ESP8266 boards connects to wifi. Also the strip will be about 2m, 2m and 4m in length, do you think a phone charger like the apple ones will work? Thanks
You can certainly try using the phone charger but my guess is you might want a little more juice for the 4 meter one. And WLED allows you to control all the esp8266 boards at once from the app so it works perfect! Thanks for watching!
Can we use this outdoor , with connecting our own mobile wifi ??? Or we have to use house wifi ???
hi chris, i was following your video and i was wondering for a 5m ws2812b led strip for 300 leds which power supply should i use? Thank you
when you unplugged the board and then plug again to the power source, do you need WLED app to replay the patterns you have before you unplug the board? Does the board store the patterns you have configure?
Hi Chris, love your videos. Do you know, can I install WLED on a ESP8266 using a Chromebook?
Thanks for the awesome content, Chris. Keep it up. I powered my LED's with an external 5V 20A power supply, but after watching this and the "Power LED Lights + Injection. Complete Walkthrough" video, I also wanted to use a phone charger(5V 2,4A)/USB to power my LED's. But when I connect VIN (NodeMCU) to the red cable (SK6812) + GND to the white cable, the LED's doesn't light up. The data cable is also connected to the right GPIO, since it worked with an external power supply before. Do you have an Idea what I'm doing wrong? Would be cool to get rid of the huge external power supply and just use USB
Edit: nevermind. I realized that I have a newer version of the NodeMCU. The V3 from Lolin. There you have to usw the VU pin, which outputs 5V coming from the USB
Thanks so much! I'm stumped on what could be wrong! I know the ws2812b are very similar to the sk6812 so i doubt that would be the issue (even though I've never tried the phone charger method on the sk6812 I assume it would work the same) The only time i've had nothing light up was when I had a bad esp8266 board and another was when the first led was bad on a strip. I cut that off and then everything worked just fine. I wish I had a better answer. Probably will have to just keep trying different things to see if you can pinpoint what or where the issue is.
Thank you very much for the update info, I'm a complete newbie in this world of wled and making your own led proyects but I was encouraged by Chris' videos since he makes it look so simple and here I am with a bunch led strips and node mcus and wires, etc. I had the same problem with my esp2866 (v3 ch340) and a ws2812b led strip and I was like what the heck? , I'm doing the exact same thing :( I was using the VIN pin but not a single led turned on, so I finally found the solution here in your comment, thank you very much sir!
@@razthelizardking86 it won't work because it needs more current than what your board can offer, connect it directly to the 5v supply regulator. Also the "NORMAL electronics convention is to connect RED wire to +ve, BLACK is reserved for GND or -ve"
Thank you so much for this edit
Is there a way to pull the code for a specific animation and use it as lambda in ESPHome?
Hello Chris!
Amazing video first of all. Help me setup wled on my NodeMCU.
I have a question though. Should I run it using my TVs USB port?(LG C2 OLED) I have plugged it in, it works fine and helps me turn it on and off with the TV remote (as it is connected to the USB port). I am just concerned about the long term effects on my TV.
I have limited the brightness limiter to 500mA
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I don't think you have anything to worry about in regards to the long term effect on your tv. I think everything should hold up just fine. Nice tv by the way!! Do you love it?!
Hey Chris do you know why WS2811 Led strips do not work properly with WLED on ESP32??
Great video. I’m building a home theater and want to backlight each acoustic panel. There’s at least (16) 4x8 panels. I would like to have them all controlled with Alexa at the same time. Do you have any suggestions to make this work?
Thanks buddy! Sounds like your theater is going to be epic! I would use the ws2812b led lights and use wled to control them. I have not made a video yet about how to hook them up to alexa, but this guy does a good job! th-cam.com/video/30yO1zTDAk0/w-d-xo.html I would probably try to have a 1/2 inch riser that the acoustic panels would sit on that is the same shape as the panels which would give you room to place the led strips. I've seen a lot of people do this so i might have to give it a try down the road! Thanks for watching!
@@ChrisMaherDIY I’m glad I found your channel. Thanks!!
hi, i really appreciate you making this video. it was very helpful. I just have one question. If i plug the ESP8266 to my pc can i run ambibox with it for ambilight?
I'm not aware of what ambibox is so I'm not entirely sure. What is ambibox? Its sounds cool if its able to do ambilight effects!
Hey Chris, great video. I wander if you could point me in the direction on how to get these lights controlled with HomeKit?
Thats a great question and I'm not very familiar with HomeKit. I did a quick search and this guys video seemed pretty good so maybe it will be a good jumping off point! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! th-cam.com/video/fXGkRykpyL4/w-d-xo.html
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you so much. The HomeKit lights are limited in features and I love your videos.
Gmm interesting
Is it possible to control different led strips with 1 board ?
Like i want 1 strip pink
And the other green and another blue ?
Heyy, great video!! It helped me a lot.
But I was wondering why the ESP8266 was able to power the 5V LED Strip (because I read that the ESP works on 3.3V).
My second question: I want to power 252 LEDs for my project. Is it possible to use a 5V 5A power source with micro USB into the ESP (exact setup like the video)? Or do I have to use an external power source?
Thanks for watching and for the great question! I think that even though the esp is 3.3v, its still able to take the 5v signal with no issues that I have ever seen on my end. I would say 252 is a bit much for a standard phone charger (a fast charging phone charger is generally 2amps) But if you are able to find a 5amp, It might just be enough! I would say its for sure worth trying it to see how it looks and if it will pass your level of expectations before trying a larger power source!
Great tutorial. Can you pls do it with a ws2812 or a led strip that has 4 pins
Great content!
Can u show us how u power like 4 meters (or more) of a LED strip and still use the WLED plz?
Yeah thats a good idea for another video. Do you by any chance know how to solder?
@@ChrisMaherDIY i do, i think with things like LED strips is pretty easy to do. there is some adapters for not soldering, but i thinks thats better to sold everything for a little more security...
dont know if u need to explain how to solder in this video
@@ChrisMaherDIY even i want to see the video where you can teach how to calculate the voltage and how to power up a large strips
@@RahulMRox thanks buddy! I'm hoping to get to that video soon!
Yes Please! I bought the supplies in this vid on black friday sales and just tried it out. This is so awesome but definitely need more power for 16 feet. Thank you for this video, made jumping into this much easier :)
With esp23 can you use 12v power supply to power the strip lights
Thank you for showing and explain this to me.. i have a strip needs 12 volts, how can inject 12volts if i wanna use this ESP2866 SHIPS OR ESP32. please explaint it how and thank you for your efforts
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! It depends on what led strip you have. I did make this video of how to get a 12v led strip set up (ws2815) with WLED and powered. Let me know if the video helps! th-cam.com/video/zbhdH-qSANc/w-d-xo.html
After watching just about every video you posted I decided to I build a 5v LED cloud design with some cotton and a metal frame for my daughters ceiling. My question is how long can the power cable be from the power source to the ESP 8266 before it becomes a problem? I want to try and hide the cable in the corner of the wall with a piece of trim. I am brand new to this DIY thing but im hooked immediately. Any thoughts or comments would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much for watching and the comment! I just send you an email but basically my advise is try it and see what happens! I have not tried something that long so please let me know if it works as I'm curious as well! Thanks so much buddy!
I don't know the details, but often it's recommended to put a fuse near the power source(to be safe) and a resistor close first led on the data line (often green, the data one). That way it will work best.
hey Chris, love all your videos. wondering if you can help me, im having some issues installing WLED to my window PC. for some reason i can see WLED in my network.
Thanks
Carlos E.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! That's a bummer its not working. Did you install WLED on the device but you cant connect it to your network? I remember one person a while back saying he was having trouble connecting to his network because for some reason wled did not like some of the special characters he had in his password. He changed it and then it connected. Not sure if that's what's goin on but just thought I would throw that out there. Also maybe watch this guys video to see if he is doing anything differently that might help! th-cam.com/video/j15pjU3YZfg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the reply I’ll watch the video
hi mate cool video ! i appericated for this helpful video also i have quick question i'm so new and im wonder can we controll these led strips with bluetooth instead connect with wifi ? many thanks cheers .
I'm not 100% sure but with the specific setup I used (WLED on an ESP8266 board) I don't think Bluetooth is one of the features. However you can certainly get different controllers that work with these lights that are Bluetooth. Here is an example of one: amzn.to/3xhEAUU Thanks so much for watching!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thanks a lot mate for your helpfull comment here , appericated!
hello good video a question is only possible to use ws2812b or you can also use rgb led
I'm not entirely sure but i think this method is only for the ws2812b led strips. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I have pretty much no experience with the basic rgb strips so unfortunately I'm not much help on this one. Thanks so much for watching though and taking the time to comment!
Nice 👍👍
Thanks so much!
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Hi, do we need a computer for one time setup only..? Can I use the strip for back of my TV once setup is made…? Thank you..
Very instructive video, can I use more than one output for multiple LEDs strips on a single esp32 for different light effects?, ty.
Hi Chris! Do you know what the max length / leds pr ESP?
Thanks for watching! I've never tried maxing things out so i'm not 100% sure but here is what WLED recomends: kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/#:~:text=For%20good%20performance%2C%20you%20can,a%20total%20of%204000%20LEDs. Hope that helps!
Thumbs up for Jesus Loves You and also to be from many other videos, the solution for my board. God bless you bro. Salute from Brazil
Amen!! Thanks so much and I appreciate the love! God bless my friend!!
Thanks, can you make a video how to connect a potentiometer encoder
HELLO I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE ESP8266 IS THERE A COVER FOR IT SO NO ONE CAN DROP SOMETHING ON IT LIKE A PROTECTOR THANK YOU THIS VIDEO I LOVE IT I CANT WAIT TO TRY IT
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. I don't know if they make anything specifically for this but I've seen some people use plastic travel soap boxes that you can get on amazon amzn.to/3Nbt4kI to give it some protection!
@@ChrisMaherDIY you know what it didnt even cross my mind but thank you im going to try it some time this week
Hi Chris, thanks for your great and informative videos,question: can you connect the esp8266 board to the 4pin led stripes ??Thanks again.
4'th pin is an addictional signal pin, just don't connect it to anything
Thanks so much for watching! That's a great question and I'm not sure! I've never tried using 4 pin led strips so unfortunately I'm no help on this question. If I figure it out I'll make sure to let you know! Thanks!
Thanks for your help! I would not have known this so I appreciate the info!
@@taczuszka6950 do you have the diagram? or where i can find it?,thanks
@@carlosfacchinat8360 it is the same as in viedeo but there isn't Din, it is swapped for Di or Do (mostly green cable) and the last one u just leave spare/ unconnected
Great video, 1 question, i am planing to make a led costume and i want the led to be sync to the music for example a 5mins music is there a way i can program the led to colors or pattern i want and sync to the music, can you please help with this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you in advance, and 1 more thing can i use a 12v battery to power it up?
I did make a video going over how to hook up a mic to an esp board to use with WLED: th-cam.com/video/_jZRzWsw8gs/w-d-xo.html which does provide some good customized options in regards to color! You can use a 12v power supply but I believe you would need a step down converter to convert to 5v. I don't have any experience in this but its on my list of projects I would like to do someday!
Does this configuration have enough power for 100 led or i need to provide external power ?and how to provide external power ?
Hi Chris,
I would like to spice up the wallbox for my electric car with this kind of lightshow indicating the charging status for example.
Do you know if I could control it with node red instead of the app?
Best regards from germany.
Chris
Hi Chris,
just saw that there are several APIs that WLED offers. The documentation is really excellent and so is your Video.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Chris
Thanks for the comment and for watching! I'm still very much a beginner and a lot of this stuff still confuses me. What is node red?! I'm always interested in learning new things!
Hi! I am amazed by the idea as I will be lightin' up my attic like that. Since I already have a LED strip laying around , that is not as fancy as the one shown on the video, I was wondering whether it will still do the work. The difference is the connection as mine has only 4 pins, R,G,B and + . Can I do a set-up with that controller and everything?
Another question popped on my mind, that is for my project. As I am powering 4 individual LED strips, each of 5m( each of 150 LEDs, total of 600), i wonder whether there is going to be a light drop at each end. My thinking is that since they will be connected in parallel it should not happen, but I am anxious to hear your opinion on it, as I am just a beginner!
Love the content and definitely i will stick around for more. Thanks in advance
Peter
Thanks so much for watching and great questions! I'm still very much a beginner like you in the sense that I don't usually just know the right answer. Most of what I know came from me having to just try it out for myself. So for the led strips that you have, I have still yet to try using those (i prefer the ones that can display multiple colors at once) So I'm almost positive you can connect them to the esp and control via WLED but since I have yet to try it myself, I unfortunately do not have the knowledge on how it would be set up. That is on my list of videos I would eventually like to do though! Let me know if you find any good resource that explains how this is done! So for your other question, I don't think you will need to worry about power. Being that the led count is 30/meter and that it sounds like they are 1 color at a time strips and that they would be in parallel, I really think you will be good and wont see power drop! Sorry I couldn't be of more help but maybe someone else reading this might know a little more on these topics!
Question and i hope you answer, thanks . ON the video you said to connect the DATA CABLE of the LED to PIN D4 on the ESP8266 , but in the WLED -LED SETTING you have PIn 2 on the LED OUTPUTS ???? If PIN 2 is set up in the LED OUTPUT of WLED , should you connect the LED DATA CABLE TO PIN D2 on the ESP8266 ? explain why you connected to D4 instead of D2 ?? , did you make a mistake ?
Can I connect 3 tapes of 4 meters each to an ESp 32 or will I need more than one?
I may have missed it in the other comments - the link to the LED Lights says the page cannot be found. Have they been discontinued or are there other ones you'd suggest? Great video!
Thanks for watching! It looks like they are still showing up as available in the US. What country are you in? If they are not showing up, the ones that I used are these: BTF-LIGHTING WS2812B RGB 5050SMD Individual Addressable 16.4FT 60Pixels/m 300Pixels Hope that helps and thanks so much for the kind words!