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hi Chris, i found this interesting touch display with integrated esp32 , M5Stack is the name of it. maybe you can do a project using this with WLED, so everyone could control his leds without smartphone, directly from small M5Stack in every room. it has also voice control and wifi. would be great if you make a cool project with it.
@ChrisMaherDIY So I need to buy this setup immediately. Just had my steps installed today and I didn’t even know what cables to run so I ran a single 14ga power cable to the top step and cat6 (23ga) cables for each step. I read below that this is like a WS2811 with 3 copper leads on the LED. But then I read that the ws2815 300led are better? But it has 3 wire connections on the led strip. Can someone please guide me in the right direction. I need to know if I can get the “better” wg2815 from Amazon and if there are any other better ESP32 out there. I also started seeing posts about Quinled. I am now completely lost!!!!!
3:30 Screw terminal connections can become loose over time, even if the wires don't move or are mechanically unloaded. To eliminate this possibility, crimp bootlace ferrules to the wires. Don't tin the wires with solder, that can loosen over time (the solder cold flows under pressure) and it can introduce a weak spot inside the insulation.
If you get some Quinled controller, you can feed your esp from 12V, no need for separate voltage supply for your board. You also get fuse and reverse polarity protection for safety. And level shifter on your data pins
I get 60/m ws2812b ip65 and ip67 for $10-11 in a 5 meter roll. this is only 1.5 times that density for 3 times the price and with a third of the controllability. It is cheaper and easier to power though with the 12volts. 144/m ws2812b in 1 meter strips is $6-7. that's $30-35 for a 5 meter run. that yields 1.5 times this density and 3 times the addressability. That's a lot to power though. Thanks for a different perspective on things. Your videos are always enjoyable and you are very thorough. Thanks for all the hard work. I'm staying 5 volt and doing cob strips. Keeps getting cheaper.
Dude! That's amazing! Thank you! Side note: I recommend spending $10 on a metal cutting disc for your miter saw. You'll get cleaner cuts without sacrificing the blade.
Thanks so much for watching and the recommendation! Thats good to know and always love to hear from experts on better ways of doing things! Appreciate it!
@@ChrisMaherDIY requires some filing with a small file to smooth the edges, but I suspect you have to do that with the blade designed for wood anyhow. 🙂
To be clear... I didn't say a wood blade would not work. I said a metal cutting disc is better. Rather than sacrifice my $60 wood blades (sharpening them is a pain in the ...), I'll sacrifice a cheap disc that's designed for the task.
Follow up question. I would like to wire up some led lights in such a way that I have a main power bus line and then branches of LED lights (picture a tree if you will). If I remove a branch of LED, the others should remain lit. If I am using a total of 5 meters of LEDs lights (the ones you used in this video actually), would I need a different power source or is what you demonstrated enough?
muzata channels prices have went bonkers tbh and not all their channels are even available in Canada. I would like to see more projects done with cob led strips especially for accent only projects, I feel they are really getting interesting these cob strips especially since I think you can stick then in any cheaper channels.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Yeah COB addressable strips are for sure something I'll be taking a deeper dive here in the near future. Love the tech and 100% agree that it will open up tons of options for different diffuser channels!
I am also very interested in addressable COBs. Some new ones are popping out but not sure what to go for, idk if they would be bright enough as the ones I´ve seen don´t have much of that info
Simple question. I am powering a 16 bulb neopixel and 12 5050 LED's from an Arudino and they seem overpowered. Is there a resistor I could put before the first bulb or is that normal? It just seems like the bulbs are stressed/bright?
The amperage rating of your supply does not matter for longer lengths of strips. The voltage drops happens due to the current draw, so even if it was a 12V 60A supply it wouldn't have made a difference. All that matters is the resistance, hence why voltage injection helps. If the strips consume what the supply can provide, but you inject voltage along the strips using wires which lower the overall resistance, you should'nt see any drop in brightness.
@@HomeCinemaSolutions01 You need a power supply that can supply enough amperage. If one strip uses a maximum of 4A you'd need a >16A supply. Something you have to keep in mind is how the current travels. If you connect them in one single length of strip (4 in a row), you'd likely see a dip in brightness towards the end of the strip if you only supply 12V at one point, even if your supply can deliver twice the required amount. The way to avoid this is to inject voltage, which basically means you take your 12V +/- of the supply and connect it multiple times down the length of your strip. You can probably find some guidelines on how often you need to do this and what gauge of wire you should use for what lengths and currents.
@ChrisMaherDIY , this channel is GOLD. The fast pace is perfect, great camera work and sound quality, intuitive instructions. A question for Chris (or anyone): I am planning to cut a Muzata strip in half to use in 2 8ft tube lights (WLED/esp32), each powered by it's own power supply. 1. Each uncut strip is 60 watts. So I would guess each half is 30watts? 2. The power supply shown in the video is 12v/3amp. Isn't this underpowered, at 36 watts? would a 12v/5amp be more appropriate? 3. Since I am running half strips, presumed to be 30 watts each, do I still need the 12v/3A/36w power supply or can I go smaller like a 12v/2a?) thx for any answers or ideas!
complete noob to led lights here, and I want to do things properly! I need to hook up 3 strips together, what kind of power supply would I need ? I found a 12v 5A supply on amazon, would that be OK (and safe?) to use? thanks. What would be the other options? Could I buy 2 of those small power supplies and power the strip at both ends ? Thanks!
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻 We easily get this in India, and is widely used in bars/clubs. These are known as WS2811 Pixel Led Strip, 60 Leds per meter, 5 meters roll, 100 IC's are like 12 USD a roll. Low quality are cheaper but those fail very very soon. 96 Leds per meter would be a little expensive though.
Looks like the ESP32 comes in a Type C now! I'm just now starting this project for my stairs. Does the type c board change the pin connections at all that you know of? I am in purchasing stage of the project.
What would be the best led strip series (addressable of course) to use to go around an entire bedroom (for my kids rooms, I think the run would be between 60-70 foot)? I'm thinking of ordering the esp32 setups, but there are SOOOO many choices of led strips! 30 per meter would be fine, just looking for something addressable that won't break the bank, but also won't draw a lot of current, as I am sure my kids will probably leave them on quite often! (kids hate to turn lights off lol) Thanks!!
Great stuff! I have to try that controller and WLED (I’m a LIFX guy and they’ve stepped up their scenes recently). QUESTION- Does WLED app allow music synch through phone?
WLED has a sound reactive mode and the ESP controlling the strip needs to have a mic of sorts. The mic will pick up ambient noise in addition to the music but I have no practical experience with this setup
Thanks so much for watching and great question! This is going to completely depend on your use case. If you want to control things with WLED, govee is not able to do that. If you already have Govee products and like to have everything synced together, then Govee has created a great ecosystem for all their products to sync together. Both serve a purpose so its just going to depend on what your trying to accomplish. Another reason you might not go with Govee is you cant cut the m1 every 3 leds like you can this one or even every led like many of the btf options. If you need very specific lengths for a project, govee might not be the best option in that situation as well.
Thanks for amazing videos! Learning a lot recently , Possible maybe to do like 1/2 year summary video's of products you love and ones to avoid? just an idea.
looking for a led strip lighting that i can use on a flight of stairs. Each tread is 35 inches long and there are 15 treads. The tread overhangs the riser by 1 1/4 inches....so i could dado in the aluminum channels. Having the lights go on when someone uses the stairs would be good too. Being able to do different light colors and patterns is cool. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Roger
Those are 97led /m according to the Amazon listing. Those are also wa2811 instead of ws2812b so they are three pixels wide for each color. And btf lighting sells 5m strips that are. 100 led/m for $22 and btf is the best quality I've used in all my projects over the years. The ws2811 is awesome.
Thanks for watching! I use btf in almost everything as well! Although I've never seen 5 meters of 100 LEDs per meter for 22 dollars. Where are you seeing this?!
Awesome price point and well done video! Though, If possible I have 2 questions. 1. Can I cut this LED strip as I'll be needing about 2.5 of them. 2. What power supply would you recommend for about 43ft (13M)
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Yes, you can for sure cut this strip! I would probably start out with a 12v 6amp supply and do 1 power injection at the end and see how things look at different levels of brightness and then go from there!
Bought these LEDS. They actually came in a waterproof jacket making it harder to mount with just take. But pretty cool that it came with waterproofing.
Can these be cut and join with some wires? I have some 12inch squares in my office in a hex style pattern with a 1.5inch gap on the wall. I plan to add some Leds to every 3rrd one. What do you recommend?
thanks so much for watching and yeah they for sure can. You can cut at every third led and then use whatever length wire (within reason) you want to connect them together.
@@ChrisMaherDIY I have a soldering gun and ordered some LED wiring kit. Do you know of a clear or white wiring kit? The kit I have is red,grreen,blue, and black colors.
@@sbfotome In the past I have just purchased a big role of 18awg silicone wire that comes in white. Cheaper to buy it in bulk like! Here is the one I get that has worked out great: amzn.to/3OcUrfL
Hi Chris, I hope you are well mate, These remind me of the TM1812 LED strips I started out with, they were amongst the first to be digitally addressable, like these they were 3 LEDs per pixel and 12v, but they were full 5050 SMD LEDs from memory, Great find though, thanks as always for the video.
@@ChrisMaherDIYI love your videos they're so inspirational and I'm looking forward to buy the L-Shaped Desk from Fezibo and was wondering what the Size of your Desk is. Is it the 160cm or the 200cm version?
@@Kaeynbrmn tha ks so much for watching and glad you are enjoying the videos! I went with the one that says 65" by 48" on the website. It's the middle size one. Hope that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY first of all, thank you very much for answering that quick. Do you think two 27" monitors, a very similar pc case like you have and keyboard&mouse fit on the 65" by 48" desk or would it be to tight?
I have a question I bought some BTF 50/50 RGBW light strips to put in a bathroom it came with 5 wires connector,,, how do I connect it to ESP 32,,, thank you in advance
First off your the guy who got me to raise an eyebrow to all this LED lighting stuff while I was searching for PC desk ideas. Thanks! Now I'm always thinking of ways to use it everything. My question is; Is it possible to utilize a single WLED data line for a GPIO pin , directing it to a level shifter, and subsequently daisy-chain the data line on the low side, ensuring the synchronized output of data on the 5-volt side for multiple LED strips? Just a thought I had. I really like your videos they have helped me learn a lot. Any feed back would awesome.
So what led strips are you exactly using? When I click the link I go to an Amazon page which displays several led strips, and the first one is from a brand "Diyife". Are those the ones you are using in the video??
Thanks for watching! When I click on the link it takes me to the product In the video. I'm in the US. Where are you located? If it's not taking you to the correct product, my guess is it's not available in your region unfortunately.
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah its a shoe display like @jesseslack2089 mentioned! First saw it on mattykay's setup and loved it! Here is the video for my gaming setup and I leave links to everything in that description: th-cam.com/video/KbbKAxnpCQQ/w-d-xo.html
If you want something simple, Govee M1 is great. If you need more specific lengths of strips then I would probably go with something like this or something from btf lighting.
Awesome videos. Can you update the link on these RGB videos for the 5V Wall adapter and Micro USB Data cable on Amazon? The ones you link in your videos now say "Currently Unavailable."
Tip, if you have voltage drop at the end of led then to the other end just add same 12v wire and all sorted so the voltage supply will be on both sides from the same power supply.
Thanks so much for watching! These are 12v led and the esp is 5v. Maybe there is away to make it all work together but I know i'm not currently smart enough to figure it out. And even though I've certainly powered 5v led strips only using the esp32, I think the general consensus is that you shouldn't power the 5v led strips only using the micro usb charger that is also powering the esp device.
@@ChrisMaherDIY Exactly. Even if you got 5V leds and power everything with one charger, a normal phone charger can provide 3A at most before getting unconfortably hot, which is not a lot of leds @ 5V... You can maybe hook up 3m or so but that's pretty much it.
Hi. Great video - I'm getting closer to diving into WLED thanks to you 🙂 A quick heads-up though - Here in the UK, the Amazon links don't appear to open the strips you use in this video - just a warning to anyone who gets too click-happy and ends up buying something unexpected.
Do it. I recently completed a project with 720 LEDs recessed in my outdoor deck and controlled via WLED. In addition I can access the strip via DMX as.part of a bigger lighting installation!
Two questions if you please. 1) isn’t a led strip that has rgb-w better if you also want to do warm white ? 2) what is Quin Led used for? Is it pure safety and if you need to please led lighting far away? What’s the added value???
I need to figure out how I can run 60ft for my entire small theater room ceiling and these looked great. I’m new to this so figuring out a power supply for the LED’s and how much I’d need is a question I need to get an answer for so it will help me from getting super frustrated and will allow the LED’s to perform without falling out. Great channel and I love the content, you’ve inspired me to do this in my house because you lay it out an make it feel like it’s much easier than I first thought it would be. Thanks! 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
The led strip lights come with controller but it can only controll 32.8ft the longgest. I would recommend you use esp32 to controll the lights. Every 3.3ft cost 12W power , maybe you need two 12v10A power would be great
Yes, I’m going to hook up with WLED. It’s good that this LED light just came in time because I’m remodeling my house. I’m planning to put them under the counter cabinets & ceiling soffits. I also want to do some of the fun projects you did in your videos. Question: how many 5 meter LED strips can one ESP32 support?
Thanks for this video; I went ahead and bought a roll of this Muzata LED strip and am looking forward to running it with WLED. I have a few questions, though. I can see on the WLED app that there's a field where you enter your power supply voltage and max voltage. Those appear to be set to 5V on the app but you're using a 12V supply. How should those fields be set? Also, in other demos, I've seen that person using a logic level shifter to bump up the voltage of the data signal. You're not doing that here. I assume it's working for you because you have a fairly short distance between the microcontroller and the strip?
This is a very good instruction video for LED strip beginners. But the provided WS2811 strip is by far not the best one, you can use. And also not the cheapest :)
You know about led DIY scene? Do you know anyone who have done 5 feet (1,5m) diameter ceiling lamp with high CRI LEDs? Looking for the light that studio led lights give with soft box to see things clearly in the kitchen.
I love the videos - even though I usually end up disappointed. Living in Europe, theres just no way to get anything remotely similar to this in our scrappy versions of amazon.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I kinda go into this in this video: th-cam.com/video/xkCt85jvI2s/w-d-xo.html but hopefully down the road I can do something that goes into a little more detail. Thanks!!
I don't understand the magic step from plugging the hardware to having control from.. what... a smartphone? an app? which app? Also, I am not interested in the animations, I want to program my own light sequences: how to do that? Can Arduino be used? Thanks!
Any help to how to make ceiling light with these? I am looking for high CRI light that would be like a big circle in the roof. -------- ------------- -------- Trying to make something like that to ceiling. With diameter of 1.5m (5feet) Then hang soft box canvas over it to soften it up.
Hello Chris, I have a question, I have the Govee DreamView T1 Pro TV and I want to add to the wall the M1 light strip but i need 2 of them of 2m to put them in each side of the bed, so can I cut one of 5m and do it 2 of 2m? I can do it, will them still work? Ty🙃 pd: by the way, because of you I can't stop buying led lights. 🤣😂
Hi so question a bit unrelated have the LED's hooked up in sink with the TV ( forgot name ) is it best to have a white background Wall or darker background wall. I'm building new house was thinking of making that wall behind tv a feature wall IE darker but if whiter colour is better I'll leave as is. Thx
power is not the only limitation. I believe wled can technically run 60m of these pixels but you will loose refresh rate if you do. i would suggest running at least 2 esp32s if you want to maintain smooth animations with this amount of pixels.
@@MastahKyler or use multiple data lines. the esp32 can handle up to 5 separate lines and they all work as one continuous strip by default. eg. you have a strip on pin 2 and a strip on pin 3, Wled will treat pin 3 as an extension of pin 2, so whenever pin 2 ends, it switches over the signal to pin 3. if he uses multiple esp32's he loses continuity in the animations
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Here is a good resource to bookmark in terms of what WLED recommends for max number of pixels. I have exceeded what they recommended and things have worked just fine but I always just recommend setting things up in a temporary way if possible and then testing things out since so much of this depends on how bright you want to run things. kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/#:~:text=It%20is%20recommended%20to%20use,for%20good%20performance%20and%20reliability.
Hi Chris, learned a lot from you lately. i have some ws2812B led which only has 3 wires data, gnd and vin. connected to a small Bluetooth controller which has motion and sound sensor and the other end of this small controller connecting to a usb plug for power. Do you think it is possible to connect this to esp32 and keeps the motion and sound functions? Also i would love to only use power from the esp32 with phone charger.....it is enough for my setup if possible
Thanks for watching and yeah that would be very nice. It is surprising that unless it's a major global brand, how the products offered on Amazon in the US are not available in other markets. Even Amazon US and Amazon Canada are vastly different.
How would you go about using these as primary lighting? Looking at using them under the back patio with an on/off switch for the white LED's for normal lighting, then have the RGB's for parties.
Don't use RGB leds for primary lighting - they produce horrible white light. If you want both color and white, buy color and white strips - they're not very expensive. Even "high cri" white strips aren't terribly expensive these days (if you buy them from the correct places - trust me, there are places that will rip you off bigtime). For RGB addressable 5M strips, you should be getting them for $15-$20, and for white, probably like $5-6 - high CRI white will be more like $20-30 but well worth it. None of this is "new" - all of these LED strips have been around for ages
Thank you for the video these lights look great. But I was wondering if I can possibly rig them up to fit a 42’ space? If not can you suggest a set of multicolor lights that can please. I was going to use a 10 meter Govee and connect it to a 3 meter Govee but I was told it wouldn’t work. You’re the man. Mike
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I just went to install.wled.me and installed the latest from their official site. I believe its beta version 0.14.0-b3 I definitely noticed a few more animations from the previous version so for sure worth updating!
That diffuser channel.. any idea on how to mount it on a couch (I got a U shaped sectional). I've been wanting to do "under glow" for my couch but trying to figure out the best way to do this. Thoughts?
@@tRRickedOut It has a remote (amazon link) so controller should be there. The Govee's remember last setting on power loss. Was wondering if this one does too as some dont.
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hi Chris, i found this interesting touch display with integrated esp32 , M5Stack is the name of it. maybe you can do a project using this with WLED, so everyone could control his leds without smartphone, directly from small M5Stack in every room. it has also voice control and wifi. would be great if you make a cool project with it.
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So I need to buy this setup immediately. Just had my steps installed today and I didn’t even know what cables to run so I ran a single 14ga power cable to the top step and cat6 (23ga) cables for each step.
I read below that this is like a WS2811 with 3 copper leads on the LED. But then I read that the ws2815 300led are better? But it has 3 wire connections on the led strip.
Can someone please guide me in the right direction. I need to know if I can get the “better” wg2815 from Amazon and if there are any other better ESP32 out there. I also started seeing posts about Quinled. I am now completely lost!!!!!
Best youtube channel for homemade led projects!
hands down. Chris goes to the point and has great ideas.
@@nfernandoterana919 I'm planning to copy some of his ideas for myself.
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Thanks so much buddy!
Couldn't agree more! He's been my go-to guy for anything LED related.
3:30 Screw terminal connections can become loose over time, even if the wires don't move or are mechanically unloaded. To eliminate this possibility, crimp bootlace ferrules to the wires. Don't tin the wires with solder, that can loosen over time (the solder cold flows under pressure) and it can introduce a weak spot inside the insulation.
If you get some Quinled controller, you can feed your esp from 12V, no need for separate voltage supply for your board. You also get fuse and reverse polarity protection for safety. And level shifter on your data pins
I get 60/m ws2812b ip65 and ip67 for $10-11 in a 5 meter roll. this is only 1.5 times that density for 3 times the price and with a third of the controllability. It is cheaper and easier to power though with the 12volts. 144/m ws2812b in 1 meter strips is $6-7. that's $30-35 for a 5 meter run. that yields 1.5 times this density and 3 times the addressability. That's a lot to power though. Thanks for a different perspective on things. Your videos are always enjoyable and you are very thorough. Thanks for all the hard work. I'm staying 5 volt and doing cob strips. Keeps getting cheaper.
Where do you get your strips from?
Dude! That's amazing! Thank you!
Side note: I recommend spending $10 on a metal cutting disc for your miter saw. You'll get cleaner cuts without sacrificing the blade.
Thanks so much for watching and the recommendation! Thats good to know and always love to hear from experts on better ways of doing things! Appreciate it!
@@ChrisMaherDIY requires some filing with a small file to smooth the edges, but I suspect you have to do that with the blade designed for wood anyhow. 🙂
If you have a wood blade with carbide teeth, it will cut aluminum just fine.
Toothed blades are perfect for aluminum. Even blades designed for wood cut this stuff great with super clean cuts.
To be clear... I didn't say a wood blade would not work. I said a metal cutting disc is better. Rather than sacrifice my $60 wood blades (sharpening them is a pain in the ...), I'll sacrifice a cheap disc that's designed for the task.
Can this type setup be used for outdoor underneath a deck railing?......completely waterproof?
I followed everything you said. It worked...i even added a mic..THANK YOUUUU!!!
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Awesome! Glad it worked!! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
What would you suggest for this type of setup with HomeKit control?
Follow up question.
I would like to wire up some led lights in such a way that I have a main power bus line and then branches of LED lights (picture a tree if you will). If I remove a branch of LED, the others should remain lit. If I am using a total of 5 meters of LEDs lights (the ones you used in this video actually), would I need a different power source or is what you demonstrated enough?
muzata channels prices have went bonkers tbh and not all their channels are even available in Canada. I would like to see more projects done with cob led strips especially for accent only projects, I feel they are really getting interesting these cob strips especially since I think you can stick then in any cheaper channels.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Yeah COB addressable strips are for sure something I'll be taking a deeper dive here in the near future. Love the tech and 100% agree that it will open up tons of options for different diffuser channels!
I am also very interested in addressable COBs. Some new ones are popping out but not sure what to go for, idk if they would be bright enough as the ones I´ve seen don´t have much of that info
Simple question. I am powering a 16 bulb neopixel and 12 5050 LED's from an Arudino and they seem overpowered. Is there a resistor I could put before the first bulb or is that normal? It just seems like the bulbs are stressed/bright?
Thank you Chris.
The amperage rating of your supply does not matter for longer lengths of strips. The voltage drops happens due to the current draw, so even if it was a 12V 60A supply it wouldn't have made a difference. All that matters is the resistance, hence why voltage injection helps. If the strips consume what the supply can provide, but you inject voltage along the strips using wires which lower the overall resistance, you should'nt see any drop in brightness.
So if I connect 4 of this stripes (64ft) do I need a different power supply?
@@HomeCinemaSolutions01 You need a power supply that can supply enough amperage. If one strip uses a maximum of 4A you'd need a >16A supply. Something you have to keep in mind is how the current travels. If you connect them in one single length of strip (4 in a row), you'd likely see a dip in brightness towards the end of the strip if you only supply 12V at one point, even if your supply can deliver twice the required amount. The way to avoid this is to inject voltage, which basically means you take your 12V +/- of the supply and connect it multiple times down the length of your strip. You can probably find some guidelines on how often you need to do this and what gauge of wire you should use for what lengths and currents.
@ChrisMaherDIY , this channel is GOLD. The fast pace is perfect, great camera work and sound quality, intuitive instructions.
A question for Chris (or anyone): I am planning to cut a Muzata strip in half to use in 2 8ft tube lights (WLED/esp32), each powered by it's own power supply.
1. Each uncut strip is 60 watts. So I would guess each half is 30watts?
2. The power supply shown in the video is 12v/3amp. Isn't this underpowered, at 36 watts? would a 12v/5amp be more appropriate?
3. Since I am running half strips, presumed to be 30 watts each, do I still need the 12v/3A/36w power supply or can I go smaller like a 12v/2a?)
thx for any answers or ideas!
complete noob to led lights here, and I want to do things properly! I need to hook up 3 strips together, what kind of power supply would I need ? I found a 12v 5A supply on amazon, would that be OK (and safe?) to use? thanks. What would be the other options? Could I buy 2 of those small power supplies and power the strip at both ends ? Thanks!
Nice! Do you know if these LED strips have dedicated white LED's for kitchen under mounts?
They do not have a dedicated white. It would be nice if they did but would more than likely drive the cost up quite a bit!
Hi love this setup can be I inject 12 volt to the second roll? Lemme know thanks
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻
We easily get this in India, and is widely used in bars/clubs.
These are known as WS2811 Pixel Led Strip,
60 Leds per meter, 5 meters roll, 100 IC's are like 12 USD a roll. Low quality are cheaper but those fail very very soon.
96 Leds per meter would be a little expensive though.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Thanks for the information! Love from the US!
hi bro, i am also from india, zara bata bhai konsi led lu or wled setup kese install karu please bata de
Looks like the ESP32 comes in a Type C now!
I'm just now starting this project for my stairs. Does the type c board change the pin connections at all that you know of? I am in purchasing stage of the project.
What would be the best led strip series (addressable of course) to use to go around an entire bedroom (for my kids rooms, I think the run would be between 60-70 foot)? I'm thinking of ordering the esp32 setups, but there are SOOOO many choices of led strips! 30 per meter would be fine, just looking for something addressable that won't break the bank, but also won't draw a lot of current, as I am sure my kids will probably leave them on quite often! (kids hate to turn lights off lol) Thanks!!
Great stuff! I have to try that controller and WLED (I’m a LIFX guy and they’ve stepped up their scenes recently). QUESTION- Does WLED app allow music synch through phone?
WLED has a sound reactive mode and the ESP controlling the strip needs to have a mic of sorts. The mic will pick up ambient noise in addition to the music but I have no practical experience with this setup
Have a look into LEDfx, that allows realtime music visualisation... And I think they have mobile apps to, but I am not 100% sure about that one.
I know what channel I should reference back to when I start my project , saved !
WS2812 and WS2813 are amazing. The WS2813 even has another pin for redundancy, should one connection break, the other will take it's place
Ws2815 is even better because its a 12v version of 2813 so less power injection points
I would like to do something like this in my garage.
Love the Step by step walk through Chris does.👍
What led strips are better These ones or the groove M1.
Thanks so much for watching and great question! This is going to completely depend on your use case. If you want to control things with WLED, govee is not able to do that. If you already have Govee products and like to have everything synced together, then Govee has created a great ecosystem for all their products to sync together. Both serve a purpose so its just going to depend on what your trying to accomplish. Another reason you might not go with Govee is you cant cut the m1 every 3 leds like you can this one or even every led like many of the btf options. If you need very specific lengths for a project, govee might not be the best option in that situation as well.
Been using these for a while, they work great for making an animated Christmas tree that displays animations with xLights.
Thanks for amazing videos! Learning a lot recently , Possible maybe to do like 1/2 year summary video's of products you love and ones to avoid? just an idea.
This is the exact video I needed! Thanks!!
Awesome heads up Chris! Thanks! 😉
looking for a led strip lighting that i can use on a flight of stairs. Each tread is 35 inches long and there are 15 treads. The tread overhangs the riser by 1 1/4 inches....so i could dado in the aluminum channels.
Having the lights go on when someone uses the stairs would be good too.
Being able to do different light colors and patterns is cool.
Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Roger
Adapter life will be short lived.
Looks Awesome.❤
Those are 97led /m according to the Amazon listing. Those are also wa2811 instead of ws2812b so they are three pixels wide for each color. And btf lighting sells 5m strips that are. 100 led/m for $22 and btf is the best quality I've used in all my projects over the years. The ws2811 is awesome.
Thanks for watching! I use btf in almost everything as well! Although I've never seen 5 meters of 100 LEDs per meter for 22 dollars. Where are you seeing this?!
Awesome price point and well done video! Though, If possible I have 2 questions.
1. Can I cut this LED strip as I'll be needing about 2.5 of them.
2. What power supply would you recommend for about 43ft (13M)
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Yes, you can for sure cut this strip! I would probably start out with a 12v 6amp supply and do 1 power injection at the end and see how things look at different levels of brightness and then go from there!
@ChrisMaherDIY Awesome, I got a new weekend project now! Thanks for the help 👍🏾
Bought these LEDS. They actually came in a waterproof jacket making it harder to mount with just take. But pretty cool that it came with waterproofing.
Theres a waterproof and non waterproof model on the amazon page, maybe you accidentally picked the waterproof one?
@@sourrlemons noticed that after I commented. That's definitely the case lol.
Can these be cut and join with some wires? I have some 12inch squares in my office in a hex style pattern with a 1.5inch gap on the wall. I plan to add some Leds to every 3rrd one. What do you recommend?
thanks so much for watching and yeah they for sure can. You can cut at every third led and then use whatever length wire (within reason) you want to connect them together.
@@ChrisMaherDIY I have a soldering gun and ordered some LED wiring kit. Do you know of a clear or white wiring kit? The kit I have is red,grreen,blue, and black colors.
@@sbfotome In the past I have just purchased a big role of 18awg silicone wire that comes in white. Cheaper to buy it in bulk like! Here is the one I get that has worked out great: amzn.to/3OcUrfL
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you , I will check it out.
Hi Chris, I hope you are well mate,
These remind me of the TM1812 LED strips I started out with, they were amongst the first to be digitally addressable, like these they were 3 LEDs per pixel and 12v, but they were full 5050 SMD LEDs from memory,
Great find though, thanks as always for the video.
Thanks as always for watching buddy! Thanks for the information and always good hearing from you!
@@ChrisMaherDIYI love your videos they're so inspirational and I'm looking forward to buy the L-Shaped Desk from Fezibo and was wondering what the Size of your Desk is. Is it the 160cm or the 200cm version?
@@Kaeynbrmn tha ks so much for watching and glad you are enjoying the videos! I went with the one that says 65" by 48" on the website. It's the middle size one. Hope that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY first of all, thank you very much for answering that quick. Do you think two 27" monitors, a very similar pc case like you have and keyboard&mouse fit on the 65" by 48" desk or would it be to tight?
I have a question I bought some BTF 50/50 RGBW light strips to put in a bathroom it came with 5 wires connector,,, how do I connect it to ESP 32,,, thank you in advance
In your newer video you’re using Aqara. Which one is better?
First off your the guy who got me to raise an eyebrow to all this LED lighting stuff while I was searching for PC desk ideas. Thanks! Now I'm always thinking of ways to use it everything. My question is; Is it possible to utilize a single WLED data line for a GPIO pin , directing it to a level shifter, and subsequently daisy-chain the data line on the low side, ensuring the synchronized output of data on the 5-volt side for multiple LED strips? Just a thought I had. I really like your videos they have helped me learn a lot. Any feed back would awesome.
So what led strips are you exactly using? When I click the link I go to an Amazon page which displays several led strips, and the first one is from a brand "Diyife".
Are those the ones you are using in the video??
Thanks for watching! When I click on the link it takes me to the product In the video. I'm in the US. Where are you located? If it's not taking you to the correct product, my guess is it's not available in your region unfortunately.
What is the thing you've got to mount your headphones?
It's a floating shoe display...after that sinks in.
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah its a shoe display like @jesseslack2089 mentioned! First saw it on mattykay's setup and loved it! Here is the video for my gaming setup and I leave links to everything in that description: th-cam.com/video/KbbKAxnpCQQ/w-d-xo.html
I want to do a project with lightning clouds on my ceiling I’m struggling to choose what stripes I should use
If you want something simple, Govee M1 is great. If you need more specific lengths of strips then I would probably go with something like this or something from btf lighting.
Awesome videos. Can you update the link on these RGB videos for the 5V Wall adapter and Micro USB Data cable on Amazon? The ones you link in your videos now say "Currently Unavailable."
Chris, how the hell do you up the anti with each video ? 😂🎉. Your creations are just so out of this world.
You're definitely my led guy! 👊
Simply ‘wow’
Tip, if you have voltage drop at the end of led then to the other end just add same 12v wire and all sorted so the voltage supply will be on both sides from the same power supply.
Looks promising. Question, do you need to inject power? Won't the esp power the LEDs?
These LED’s require 12v.
The ESP can only output 5v.
This is also why he uses two powersuppliers in the video
Thanks so much for watching! These are 12v led and the esp is 5v. Maybe there is away to make it all work together but I know i'm not currently smart enough to figure it out. And even though I've certainly powered 5v led strips only using the esp32, I think the general consensus is that you shouldn't power the 5v led strips only using the micro usb charger that is also powering the esp device.
@@ChrisMaherDIY Exactly. Even if you got 5V leds and power everything with one charger, a normal phone charger can provide 3A at most before getting unconfortably hot, which is not a lot of leds @ 5V... You can maybe hook up 3m or so but that's pretty much it.
Your channel is blowing up! good work man
Hi. Great video - I'm getting closer to diving into WLED thanks to you 🙂
A quick heads-up though - Here in the UK, the Amazon links don't appear to open the strips you use in this video - just a warning to anyone who gets too click-happy and ends up buying something unexpected.
yup almost just got me...
Do it. I recently completed a project with 720 LEDs recessed in my outdoor deck and controlled via WLED. In addition I can access the strip via DMX as.part of a bigger lighting installation!
Damn I fell for it, I sent the lights back, does anyone know how I get these in the uk?
Two questions if you please. 1) isn’t a led strip that has rgb-w better if you also want to do warm white ? 2) what is Quin Led used for? Is it pure safety and if you need to please led lighting far away? What’s the added value???
You could go with SK6812’s if you want to achieve more accurate whites, I’m pretty sure they offer 5v and 12v variants.
I need to figure out how I can run 60ft for my entire small theater room ceiling and these looked great. I’m new to this so figuring out a power supply for the LED’s and how much I’d need is a question I need to get an answer for so it will help me from getting super frustrated and will allow the LED’s to perform without falling out.
Great channel and I love the content, you’ve inspired me to do this in my house because you lay it out an make it feel like it’s much easier than I first thought it would be. Thanks! 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
The led strip lights come with controller but it can only controll 32.8ft the longgest. I would recommend you use esp32 to controll the lights. Every 3.3ft cost 12W power , maybe you need two 12v10A power would be great
Far out, dude. Fantastical! Trippy. We are the light.
Thanks Chris. I just bought 10 through your Channel 😄
You are stocking up!! Lol thats awesome. Thanks so much for the support. You planning on hooking them up to WLED?!
Yes, I’m going to hook up with WLED. It’s good that this LED light just came in time because I’m remodeling my house. I’m planning to put them under the counter cabinets & ceiling soffits. I also want to do some of the fun projects you did in your videos.
Question: how many 5 meter LED strips can one ESP32 support?
Thanks for this video; I went ahead and bought a roll of this Muzata LED strip and am looking forward to running it with WLED. I have a few questions, though. I can see on the WLED app that there's a field where you enter your power supply voltage and max voltage. Those appear to be set to 5V on the app but you're using a 12V supply. How should those fields be set? Also, in other demos, I've seen that person using a logic level shifter to bump up the voltage of the data signal. You're not doing that here. I assume it's working for you because you have a fairly short distance between the microcontroller and the strip?
This is a very good instruction video for LED strip beginners. But the provided WS2811 strip is by far not the best one, you can use. And also not the cheapest :)
You know about led DIY scene? Do you know anyone who have done 5 feet (1,5m) diameter ceiling lamp with high CRI LEDs? Looking for the light that studio led lights give with soft box to see things clearly in the kitchen.
I love the videos - even though I usually end up disappointed. Living in Europe, theres just no way to get anything remotely similar to this in our scrappy versions of amazon.
Same here in Sweden, good led strips tends to get exspensive. I was thinking of a stage design, but the cost was high.
AliExpress?
Great video as always! What would you power this with if you used 3 strips of lights?
Do I need higher than 3amp power source to run more than 2 strips. Like using 3 or 4 strips together?
Thank you Chris. Can you do a video explaining WLED segments and how to use more than one data (GPIO) pin? Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I kinda go into this in this video: th-cam.com/video/xkCt85jvI2s/w-d-xo.html but hopefully down the road I can do something that goes into a little more detail. Thanks!!
@@ChrisMaherDIYSurely will check this. Thanks a lot 🙏🏼.
Do you know how many lumens per meter it has and if it’s compatible with HomeKit?
THAT. Looks Swawesome!
I don't understand the magic step from plugging the hardware to having control from.. what... a smartphone? an app? which app?
Also, I am not interested in the animations, I want to program my own light sequences: how to do that? Can Arduino be used? Thanks!
they use wled which you can use from both pc and an app. its powered on an esp32 which im quite certain can also use arduino
Any help to how to make ceiling light with these? I am looking for high CRI light that would be like a big circle in the roof.
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Trying to make something like that to ceiling. With diameter of 1.5m (5feet) Then hang soft box canvas over it to soften it up.
Would these be suitable
For Sauna use?
Im having problems with that power supply burning out, can anyone recommend a different power supply and/or explain why this would be happening?
Hello Chris, I have a question, I have the Govee DreamView T1 Pro TV and I want to add to the wall the M1 light strip but i need 2 of them of 2m to put them in each side of the bed, so can I cut one of 5m and do it 2 of 2m? I can do it, will them still work? Ty🙃
pd: by the way, because of you I can't stop buying led lights. 🤣😂
If you solder the end of one to the beginning of another, yes that works.
Have you ever looked at the BTF WS2811 12v? These also have 96led per meter and also around 30 euros.
Thanks so much for watching! Yeah I love BTF lights! We do have those but they are much more expensive here. Great quality product thought!
Hi so question a bit unrelated have the LED's hooked up in sink with the TV ( forgot name ) is it best to have a white background Wall or darker background wall. I'm building new house was thinking of making that wall behind tv a feature wall IE darker but if whiter colour is better I'll leave as is. Thx
Is power the only limitation on connecting multiple runs of these strips? I am looking at options for a large space (roughly 60 meters)
power is not the only limitation. I believe wled can technically run 60m of these pixels but you will loose refresh rate if you do. i would suggest running at least 2 esp32s if you want to maintain smooth animations with this amount of pixels.
@@MastahKyler or use multiple data lines. the esp32 can handle up to 5 separate lines and they all work as one continuous strip by default.
eg. you have a strip on pin 2 and a strip on pin 3, Wled will treat pin 3 as an extension of pin 2, so whenever pin 2 ends, it switches over the signal to pin 3.
if he uses multiple esp32's he loses continuity in the animations
@@mthompson965 i see, i wasn't sure if these limitations were due to data line length or hardware capabilities, thank you for clarifying
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Here is a good resource to bookmark in terms of what WLED recommends for max number of pixels. I have exceeded what they recommended and things have worked just fine but I always just recommend setting things up in a temporary way if possible and then testing things out since so much of this depends on how bright you want to run things. kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/#:~:text=It%20is%20recommended%20to%20use,for%20good%20performance%20and%20reliability.
Hi Chris, learned a lot from you lately. i have some ws2812B led which only has 3 wires data, gnd and vin. connected to a small Bluetooth controller which has motion and sound sensor and the other end of this small controller connecting to a usb plug for power. Do you think it is possible to connect this to esp32 and keeps the motion and sound functions? Also i would love to only use power from the esp32 with phone charger.....it is enough for my setup if possible
Great vid! Love your videos but I wish all these products youre sharing would be available on the European Amazon :-(
Thanks for watching and yeah that would be very nice. It is surprising that unless it's a major global brand, how the products offered on Amazon in the US are not available in other markets. Even Amazon US and Amazon Canada are vastly different.
Pls what is the name of the led strip
Do you have a good led strip or cob strip for outdoors 32 ft long I will be hooking up with a esp32 ?
How would you go about using these as primary lighting? Looking at using them under the back patio with an on/off switch for the white LED's for normal lighting, then have the RGB's for parties.
Don't use RGB leds for primary lighting - they produce horrible white light. If you want both color and white, buy color and white strips - they're not very expensive. Even "high cri" white strips aren't terribly expensive these days (if you buy them from the correct places - trust me, there are places that will rip you off bigtime). For RGB addressable 5M strips, you should be getting them for $15-$20, and for white, probably like $5-6 - high CRI white will be more like $20-30 but well worth it. None of this is "new" - all of these LED strips have been around for ages
Thank you for the video these lights look great. But I was wondering if I can possibly rig them up to fit a 42’ space? If not can you suggest a set of multicolor lights that can please. I was going to use a 10 meter Govee and connect it to a 3 meter Govee but I was told it wouldn’t work.
You’re the man.
Mike
Could you recommend a second best for price/value? I am using WLED to control them, the Muzata just aren’t coming back in stock.
really awesome, would love to know if you could put this in a car for underglow or some interior accent lighting.
Any plans to hide the wire connection on the right? If so, how?
I would like some Leds that are plug and play but will not show hot spots in my diffusers. Can you recommend? The Muzata links says not available.
What did you do to hide the wires @ 7:20?
Is there a way to create your own animations and is there a way to connect it to a device that would make it beat sync animations??
Chris love the vids . sucks that in less than 16 that you posted this the leds are no longer available
It can be used with led rgb ic?
can we use theses LED strips with the mic you used in one of you videos since you were using a 5v power supply?
Double-check your model, but I am fairly certain most ESP devices can take up to 12V.
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Can wled be integrated with the Philips hue network/bridge
How much did your dream gaming setup you made a month ago pls tell me
Your WLED had different animations than what I have. Is there a pack that you downloaded to add more than the default ones?
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I just went to install.wled.me and installed the latest from their official site. I believe its beta version 0.14.0-b3 I definitely noticed a few more animations from the previous version so for sure worth updating!
Can you do a wLED ambient set up for 120inch projector screen pretty please 🙏 I haven't found those content yet but I know it can be done
That diffuser channel.. any idea on how to mount it on a couch (I got a U shaped sectional). I've been wanting to do "under glow" for my couch but trying to figure out the best way to do this. Thoughts?
probably screw the channels into the bottom of the couch, or as he did 3m strips or tape
Thanks for a great review. Does this strip "remember" last setting on power loss and recovery?
That's for the controller to do. Not the strip
@@tRRickedOut It has a remote (amazon link) so controller should be there. The Govee's remember last setting on power loss. Was wondering if this one does too as some dont.
Holy crap, those diffuser strips are expensive. I will find something else. However, thank you for the vid.
This newer round you posted in the deal a few days ago do not seem to be WLED compatible.
Update, working! It totally matters which side you run the data from.
Can't find the bottom strip you show 😢
Amazing! Thank you!
I have an issue finding a esp32 with a VIN pin, i could need some help since aliexpress doesn't ship to austria
Do they have a program that mimics lightning?
Wled has effect called "Lightning", looks good
I’m not sure how, but my walls did that when I was in high school way back in the 70s.