12v WS2815 with WLED / ESP32 - Setup, Power, Control
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Chris, I can't express how much I appreciate these videos. I've learned so much from you since following your channel. Thanks again!
Thanks as always buddy! Appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment! I'm glad you are enjoying the videos :)
I always love your videos. I think we’d all love to see a walk through of your setup and all the areas you’ve done. Thanks for great content!
Thanks so much as always! I'll have to put that on my to do list at some point! I'm still wanting to make a nice gaming room so maybe once I have that complete I'll get to it!!
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Thanks for watching buddy! Yeah I love those as well! Android is also another one of my favorites!
I have to say that every video you published is awesome. I now have a guide on how to set up my lights in my home lab. Great job 👍
Thanks so much for watching and glad you are liking the videos!
Great video. I'm planning on doing 2 zones with a total of approx. 30m in length, my supplier sent me a few options for LEDs .
WS2811 / 5v
WS2815 /12v
WS2811 / 24v
Can't wait to see more of your tests, narrow down my choices.
Just FYI, with the WS2811 you're only getting every 6 addressable at 24V, so a run of 600LEDs will only have 100 addressable zones.
Awesome! It will be fun to see what you end up going with! As G B mentioned the ws2811 as far as i'm aware are not individually addressable unless thee is something out there that I'm not aware of.
What model do you recommend?
@@DJDUSTYB ws2815 for long runs
What a perfect timing. Just got my ws2815 a little while ago and started to experiment how i can get it running with an esp
Thanks buddy!! Glad the timing worked out and thanks as always for watching!
Hi, nice Vid. One question: What is the maximum length of the data cable from the controller to the strip? So that it works without errors. Is 3 meters too long?
Very clear and nice video !
Man thanks for the demonstration I have been chasing around on how to do it with the ESP32 board, Thank you so much🙏🙏
You are very welcome and thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!
thanks! how many 12 volt individually addressable leds can i daisy chain and power using esp32?
Will this work with a Wemos D1 Mini? Or what voltage does the data lines need?
Chris, thanks for the great videos. It has really helped me understand the differences between all the available LED light options. I'm going to have a go at putting together a project for a night club using 130 meters of WS2815 on four separate circuits. I'm curious if you've done any side by side comparisons of the available controller units from BTF Lighting. I really like the results you're getting with WLED with the ESP32 project boards, but by the time I make these commercially usable and put them in project boxes, it's going to be more trouble than buying the off the shelf controller complete with their remote controls.
Thanks so much for watching and wow what an epic project you are taking on! I really wish I had more experience with larger installs and other controllers. My guess is for something that big you would want to go with something else. Here is some information on what WLED recomends from an led perspective: kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/#:~:text=For%20good%20performance%2C%20you%20can,a%20total%20of%204000%20LEDs.
Hopefully at some point down the road I will be more knowledgeable and can help out better with questions like this. But I would love to know what you end up going with if you have time to share down the road!
What did you decide to use for your project?
Hello great video and nice channel!!!
May I ask why you connect the blue wire to the 12V negative, what is that wire for?
THE KING OF LEDS
Lol thanks buddy! Your too kind!! Hope all is well!
Great content as always! Question: is there a good way to waterproof the channels as opposed to buying the IP65 variants? Cheers!
I finally got this working thank you so much for a great video! I had so much pain as ESP32 boards come in different varieties, but i worked out that simply changing the GPIO pin within WLED done the trick! Just an additional question but when you are displaying what appears to be two sets of LED strips, are these connected to the same controller and in series? Now i have this first stage working with 2 LED strips in parallel, my next stage is to extend to 30m around garden for new year light show! Trying to work out if i'm best having separate controllers or just connect the full 30m with any additional voltage...Not sure if anyone can advise on how i progress from here?
I eneded up using the WS2815s 60LEDs/m for my permenant christmas lights and they are great. You gotta pull the trigger since you are the king of RGB lights
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! That's awesome! What are you using to control the lights?! Lol I will!!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Dig-Quad and WLED App on my phone. I had about 90 feet of roofline that I covered and used 3 data lines.
Hi Chris, i have meanwell 12v 12.5 amp with WS2815 and wled, but the led doesnt want to turn on. i can access the WLED, do you know why?
Dying to see you try out some of the COB dream color... these are 24V... wild for no voltage drop, but crazy density: BTF-LIGHTING FCOB WS2811
I’m following this tutorial pretty closely along with the how to solder video , and installing wled video but my esp32 board pin layout looks a little different. I don’t see a pin named d4 and the ground pin is in a different spot. Is there a different pin to use ? Is it just the output gpio4? Thanks !
Thanks Chris! just would like to confirm as I'm a newbie when it comes to this stuff. So if I wanna do 5M of less, 5V DC setup should be okay? don't need an extra injection? Ta
Thank you Chris.
Thank you Chris.
Thanks you as always for watching and the comment! Love it!
You are very welcome! Thanks as always buddy!
does the tutorial work for 12v ws2812b 5m 144 LEDs?
Great video, Chris! I have a question regarding your 12V/5A = 60W power supply recommendation.
According to the specifications, a 5M WS2815 LED Strip will take 90W to power (probably at full white with no degradation).
If we consider 20% higher (90W *1.2), it will be 108W.
Does this theoretically mean we should be using a minimum of a 120W power supply? That is twice as much as what you're recommending.
Am I understanding this correctly?
I just installed exactly 5m of this WS2815 strip (144 LED/m) around my walk in shower. Yes, it's a rather big shower.
Using WLED to limit power to 2.5amps, this is more than adequate for powering 5 meters. Remember, this is with me using 144led/m strips.
Any higher than 4 amps and it becomes offensively bright on all colors, especially white.
You dont NEED a 12v10a power supply, but it won't necessarily hurt anything as long as you don't let it try to pump 10amps all the time.
Could you do a video using wled and fcob rgb ic strips? Ty the setup in wled is different then regular ic strips
So, I've been wondering. The power supplier and the buck converter, they have convenient little screw holes for mounting. What do you do with the esp32 dev board, leave it floating?
@ChrisMaherDIY - What LED settings are set in WLED for the WS2815? I see some kind of limiter and its defaulted to 5v 55ma or something? What is the proper setup for these? How do you calculate the right power supply given lets say 3.5 strips used of these (1051 LED's in my case)?
Hi! I hope you can help me...
I listened a lot of things abouts de led strip, and one f the is: is necessary use a "Logic Level Shifter".
it's true?? what you (or anyone else) can say about it?
thank you!!
and your videos are amazing!
my friend, how much leds the ESP32 hold? and how much ampers, do you know? because i want to control 40meters, but probably the ESP won't support so much.
Would love to find a diagram or detailed tutorial of how to do a long run with these. I’m doing trim of a 50’ rectangular room.
Hang on... how are you powering a 5 meter strip of 60 LED/meter WS2815 lights with a 12v 5A power supply? The BTF websites specs say that each led draws 0.3 watts of power and on a 5 meter strip thats 300 x 0.3 = 90 watts. Am I missing something? Are those actually 30 LED/meter? I'm trying to connect four of these together in parellel and power them accordingly but now I'm worried my wattage is way to the high with the power supply I have in mind.
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FYI professional always use 24v strips - longer runs and more reliable binned LEDs. But what you do is perfectly acceptable and COOL! Keep it up
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I have yet to try the 24v strips but I for sure do at some point. Do you know if there are individually addressable 24v strips available or are they either controlled in sets of 3 or 6 leds?
@@ChrisMaherDIY I don't see how they could make 24V strips with individually addressable LEDs. The LEDs are 3V each, so for 24V, six are wired in series, leaving 3V dropped across the resistor, or linear current regulator. I suppose they could pack 6 LED small chips per channel, into each RGB LED package, but that would make it more expensive and I've not seen it before.
@@ChrisMaherDIY You can get 720LED/M FCOB strips from BTF-Lighting that are 24V powered now. They are addressable down to 5cm lengths using WS2811 chips (5cm = 36LEDs). Each 5M strip would have 100 WS2811 chips to control each 5cm length of 36LEDs each (5cm is about 2 inches and 5M is about 16 feet).
@@alunjones3860wow.. this comment has a lot of information packed in it. I have read this like 3-4 times to fully understand
@@joirelandwhat’s the principle or methodology followed or design these strips. Like how many LEDs on a 12v or 24 v strip and how they are connected etc. sorry for the dumb question. A complete noob trying to learn basic electronics as a hobby
Hi Chris, I have watched all your videos on youtube. I have learned a lot and thank you for that!
Have you tried using WLED and ESP32 in old 12v RGB analog led strips? I'm not sure if it's even possible, but I'd be really happy if you could make such a tutorial. All the best for you!
Best regards, Tommi
Thanks so much for watching and you are very welcome! I have not tried doing something like that and i'm honestly not even sure if it would work. I think WLED is more for the digital type led strips but I could be wrong. Maybe if someone else is reading and they know for sure they could chime in since I am curious on this myself!
Hi Chris,
I have 5050 led strips which run on 151 smds , can i connect it to ESP32 and control with wled?
I WANT TO PUT A PUSH BOTON and chance the secuence of the light it is possible with the SP32? and the WLED?
On the esp32 are you just plugging the +5v into the 5v pin and the gnd to the gnd pin. The same as you would when you would power it via the USB port and the +5v pin and gnd pin would be then connected to the LED strip?
I only ask as I tried a 12v power supply using your directions, and it worked for a bit but then the esp32 overheated and the wifi module no longer works. So made me wonder if the pins on the esp32 are connected differently in this configuration.
Hey Chris, I followed this tutorial to a T, the only difference is I am using a 100W 12V 8.33A power supply(The same one you used in your video but the more wattage version(The reason I am using such a high W power supply is because I plan on running 4 1m strips and connect them with some wires in between to have around ~4m worth of cable and ~4 meters of LEDS) and I wired everything up, and I have power to my ESP board. Still, the LED lights did not come on. I made sure all connections were correct, and I even tried doing the LED strips straight to the PSU, and still no power to the lights; any idea where I could have gone wrong?
12v won't work unless there is a converter to 5v
I have the same issue, I’m using ws2815 but with 12v and 12.5a.. what I’m doing wrong?
Great tutorial!
Why do you wire the backup data line to ground? Wouldn't it be better to wire it parallel to the main data line? What are the pro/contra for either method? Sry for the noob question.
Appreciate your channel, thank you!
Hi, I'm also interested in this... didn't understand why it is wired to the ground. Thanks for your videos @ChrisMaherDIY !
Hi...Can the board store the chosen colour combination and start it as soon the power to the board is ON without tapping the power up button on the app? Thank you
Great video as always! I was wondering if i can do remote on/off through wled with this wiring setup? I noticed that the power is directly connected to the strip while the esp32 only controls the data channel.
Thanks as always buddy! That's a great question and I'm not sure. I might have to play around with things to see if that is possible or not. Maybe someone else on here might know for sure and can chime in?! Thanks again!
Good afternoon, congratulations for your videos, they are fabulous.
I have a doubt and if you can clarify I would be grateful.
I need to put WRGB leds in a case letter (channel letters). I was thinking of using the ESP32.
Once configured and programmed, the ESP32 can work Offline to make a certain sequence of colors and effects, it turns on (ON with a switch ) and the ESP32 starts working and carrying out the predefined routine itself. Or is there another better controller for this situation. Thanks
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! That is a great question! I honestly am not sure on that. I have not come across that yet in my projects but I for sure can see where that would be nice to have in some situations. I would maybe check out DrZZZ channel to see if he has any information on this. Maybe if someone else is reading through the comments and knows for sure they can chime in because I'm curios myself on this! Thanks!
Chris great awesome helpful videos. Do you recommend any one specific profile channel or LED brand to use on ceilings/walls for lighting used as main light source? Similar to what is show for more contemporary design layouts?
How do you determine what brand and setup to use for different lighting use. I.e.
1) Main light source
2) Entertainment Audio/Video Around TV
3) Gaming
4) Bar area?
5) General hallway ceilings/walls?
6) Garage ceilings for more brighter lighting
7) Stair case under stair tread lighting
Also Govee seems to have a really user friendly package deal with products, power, and switch however if you need lighting for example threw out ceilings leading to one switch for on/off how do you setup this? Or another example would be having multiple LED strips on different ceiling/walls that leads to one power source and control source how would this be setup?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question! Since i've never tried using led profiles/ lights for a main lighting source, i'm afraid I would just be guessing if I gave you any advice. I really do like govee but i'm not sure their led strips would be best for main lighting since the white color on the strips is not a dedicated white. My approach with everything is do a little online research, order what I think will be best, test it out and either keep it and use it because it looks nice, or return things, get my money back and try something else. I'm very much a trial and error type of guy so that's usually how I go about doing things. I also don't really have any experience yet on switches or trying to run power to main house supply. Hopefully someday I'll know a lot more answers to be more helpful!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you greatly appreciate the info and help. I will give the trial and error idea a go. I see more and more homes now are using the long LED Strip lighting in ceilings for multiple rooms on same floor as a main light and was just wondering what they are using or how is setup (i.e all wired to same adapter, controller) and if that is the best quality setup and materials. only issue was not understanding the power side of things. Also if you install LED strip lights in different rooms do you use one (1) power source or controller? I like the Govee idea. But my fear is one I install the LED strip and something wacky goes wrong and requires repair or replacement I need to access the power adapter, or any other component controller or actual wiring how do I access these cut back into drywall?
How can you get the white light on the led mines doesn’t give me the option for white ?
Another Great Video! Can you provide details on how you "mount", and secure the ESP32, or the ESP8266 boards? My current project will use 3 boards, attached to the BTF-LIGHTING WS2812B lights.
Thats a good question!! I generally just hide mine behind something and dont put it or secure it to anything. I did make a short little clip on one way you could do it but I've also seen other people use a travel soap dish amzn.to/3hBrBsU to house the esp board. Here is the video I made about hiding things. I dont want to put anything behind walls (too much work) so options are kindof limited: th-cam.com/video/ibRp6eeUwBA/w-d-xo.html
Hi Chris
I’ve followed this video to the letter yet yet I do not get the same results.
When I plug LED strip in to power supply the full reel illuminates. When I introduce ESP32 with WLED the strip behaves erratically. I’ve tried using the voltage adapter to power the ESP and also separate supply, both yield the same result.
I’ve seen reference in the web to Logic Level Shifters but never heard/saw you use one in your projects.
Could this be the answer?
Great videos Chris , just getting into LED designing and starting with my sons room renovation, quick question on using the ESP32 or other WLED controllers- Have you ever used any type of enclosure for them to keep them safe and protect them , or just tuck them up somewhere hidden most of the time and not worry about it? TIA Steve
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I mostly just put them behind something and there they sit. However, a few people have mentioned they have used traveling soap boxes to protect the esp device. This is also where 3d printing would come in handy but something I have yet to dive into.
Are you running the strip directly off the ESP32 data line - that's 3.3V... doesn't the WS2815 need 5V or is it 3.3V tolerant ?
Does it matter if you use a 3 Amp or 5 Amp power supply on these? I see you are using 5 AMp but curious if its ok to go with 3 Amps
great video, really makes me want to do this myself. I'm wondering though, is there a zwave device i could use instead of the wifi esp? I have so many wifi devices that anywhere I can use zwave i'm trying to do so as to not congest the wifi
Thanks so much for watching! I've never used that device before but I just looked it up and I think it should work! Yeah having 5 different things to control around the house just means you probably will hardly use any of them. Wish I could be of more help but since i've never used it I'm not entirely sure how the setup might be. Might have to do some googling to find out for sure what strips you can hook up!
If you wanted to have the LED's controlled by an AC dimmer switch with a 12V dimmable LED Driver, could you control the LED's with an ESP controller with a different power source?
Hi there, super clear video. One questoon I have still is the following: I have exactly the same BTF ws2815 strip. I can't use WLED drivers unfortunately for my project (making a wordlclock) but i am familiar programming in arduino language myself. This leaves me with the following: my ESP32 MH-ET-LIVE board has - i think - 3.33V data out at IO33 (but i think at all data outputs to be honest) even though i drive it with step down 5V like you do.
I have read that the 3.3V data signal would not be enough for the WS2815 strip to take it in, and that i need another shift level convertor to bring the data to 5V again. I dont see you use it, so I wonder if it is even needed?
Regards from Holland
Hi there, 3.3v is ok for but for some cases you can have some problems. I recommend a cheap logic level shifter
what about if i want to hook that up outdoors? do you shove all that in to a box or something?
Great video, just one thing ive always been wondering about, is there any way I can hook these LED lights up to be powered by a PC powersupply, or motherboard (using the 4pin headers), and using the controller by cutting the wires on the 4pin from there? Just a thought, Idk too much about circuits anyway.
Thanks for watching! Great question! So I have not tried doing this so i'm not 100% sure but I dont see why it wouldn't work as long as the voltage is equal to what the lights need. Maybe someone else thats reading through comments might know for sure and can chime in!
@@ChrisMaherDIY I tried it out by hooking it up to my PC power supply instead through a SATA connector, works perfectly and no need for power injections at all for a 5m strip, this video helped alot with it, thanks.
Looking for help. I have these same lights I can't ge the app to recognize the lights even though I can work the lights via the desktop app. Once I disconnect from the computer the phone app does not find the lights or it did once bujt told me they were off line and I could not access them fro m the app. I deleted the lights and now I can't find them again.
hey Chris, Can you please help me out. I'm using(BTF-LIGHTING AC100-240V to DC24V10A Max240W Suit DC24V1A~DC24V10A Switching Power Supply + BTF-LIGHTING FCOB WS2811 RGB IC Chip Flexible High Density Uniform Light Chasing Color LED Strip DC24V + EPS 32) I followed all the steps from your videos but when connecting LED strip to power supply the LED wasn't turning on. I used the multi meter to make sure i have 24V and checked the other end of LED and it seems it has 24V no light appears. I also damaged 2 EPS 32 by connecting straight to the power supply not knowing that it only work with 5v.Thanks
Thank you for tutorual.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support!
Any links for the same but in RGBNW?
When can we get that power source comparison video. I am about to take on a project and want to know what source to use to not be overkill but not be to small. Over all I will be doing two 5m strips for under and above cabinet lighting.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Man, I hope to get to it soon but I've been swamped with my normal day job and don't know when that will be. But when trying to figure out what to use, I generally just order a couple different options from amazon, test things out, and return the ones I don't end up needing. Not exactly a scientific approach but its worked well for me!
Hello Chris Thank you for the information. Could you possibly do a short video on powering esp32 with usb rather than buck converter. As I have already own 3 esp32 boards.
Thanks so much for watching! So I have done that but I don't think did a video. There are mixed opinions when it comes to powering the esp device with a micro usb but i've never had any problems. So what you can do is plug the micro usb into the esp32. then you would still need to attach a wire to the gnd pin and connect that to the gnd from the 12v power supply that is going to the led strip. That should be all you need to do if my memory is correct. Then the data from the esp would still go to the data on the led strip and there would be nothing attached to the vin pin on the esp32. Hope that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thanks a lot will try it now. was attaching the VIN as well and hence was destroying the espS
Quick question. Did you use power injection on the other end? Or is the full 10m run just one power source with unnoticable diminish to brightness? I was considering getting a nice big 12 v 15A 180W PSU for my project using 15m of ws2811 but now I am having second thoughts.... Additionally, I am curious to know of it is possible to connect the data wire (green)to 2 led strips and have the same data sent through them I was thinking 5m and 10m( with power injection ) since the big power supply has 3 pairs of +v -v I can use. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching and great questions! I did not use power injection on this setup. Just had the power going in at the beging of the first led strip and that's all. If I remember correctly, at 100% brightness and white, I did notice a drop off in color but on every animation or just regular color, it looked great. I also think If I had the brightness set to about 70% and white, I did not notice any drop off in color at that point. And yes you can certainly run the data wire to 2 strips and have them do the same thing. This is called running them in parallels. You can simply split the data line coming from the controller (I love using wago connectors to split the data) and then run the data to whatever strips you have and it should work great!
HI, thanks for your video. If you use two LED Strips, does the data wires connect directly to the Esp (parallel) or does it need to go from strip one into strip two (jn row)?
You can do it either way! If you want both led strips to do the exact same thing at the exact same time you can split the data line coming from the esp device (parallel) or you can connect 1 strip to the end of the other. Just depends on what you are wanting to do with them on what you would more than likely choose to do!
Hello. just bought Just bought ws2815 but I can't get it to light pure white. I think it should have the white colors. Can yours do it?
Hey Chris wonderful video, I was wondering if I would be able to power 3 esp32 boards off of one 12-5v converter? Also can the esp32 be connected to a google home?
Thanks so much for watching! As far as I know, I think it only has support for Alexa. That's a good question about powering more than 1. Even though I have not tried it, I don't see why it would not work!
Great video man I'm building a campervan and the whole roof will have this setup. Question I have is I'm probably going to be running around six 16' led strips and I see that they make 200-300 watt drivers. You're running 60 watts for 2 strips so would you say it's 60 watts per 32 feet? Or 600 less? Also my entire system is running off 12v so I can power these strips directly from a battery bank. Is there a driver that doesn't need to convert 2 AC so I can avoid the plug? Thanks for the input dude. It's helping my idea bc closer to reality
Thanks so much for watching and that sounds like an epic project! So I wish i was more knowledgeable on the specific details of the power aspect of things. (I could but I just have not taken the time to really dive into this) I really generally just order a few different power supplies, hook things up on the floor, see how it looks and then go from there in regards to bigger supply, smaller supply or power injections. I have also never done as big of a project that your taking on so I don't have firsthand experience on what to use but trial and error is the best way to go! I'm also not aware of a driver that does not need to convert 2 ac but I can for sure see what that would be helpful! It very well may exist but i've just never looked into that either. I am at some point wanting to get more into leds and cars so hopefully I can be of more help on these types of questions down the road! Maybe someone else whos reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in on some of these great questions!
@Chris Maher no problem and thanks for the input. Im currently going to hook up everything to a 200 watt driver...I'll let you know the rusults!
You did exactly the application/operation I had in mind. Is it okay if we power the ESP 32 module from an external source? For example, with a mobile phone charger with a 5 volt output.
Because it will be an expense to buy an adapter that reduces 12V to 5V.
For this reason, I want to use the existing adapter I have.
Yes this is possible. I even used the USB 3.0 from my PC and mobile phone charger without any issue.
Just like Hyper mentioned, it is for sure possible. You can power the esp device via the usb micro on the board. I believe you would still need the gnd pin connected to the gnd of the led strip to work but the voltage pin on the esp board would not need to be used at all. Hope that makes sense!
Thanks again for your help! Very much appreciated!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Yes you will have to try
@@ChrisMaherDIY esp32 how pin?
Hi. wonderful tutorial, it pushed me try. Just becouse i had a lot of 2815 that i use for shows on stages, and i was searching a good solution to avoid distance limitation with cables.
Unfortunatly my first test returned a full white strip, blinking a bit, with tiny rgb noise. Backup and Gnd wired toghether as you... i try to ask, beacause looks so simple but i'm not seeing the proper light at the end... any suggestion? i'm powering the esp32 with a phone charger through usb, and the ledstrip through a DC power supply. maybe is that? i bought a pack of 12Vto5V, that will arrive in few days
thanks a lot!
Thanks for reaching out! One thing to double check is that the gnd from the power supply, led strip and eap device is all common. Also double check in led preferences that the dpio pin is set to the pin that you used for data on the board. Let me know if any of that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY yeee what a stupit, was the ground not in common! Thanks! I ask here maybe interest also others like me. Can you explain why and when is needed to use the level shifter? Have a nice day
hello dear, these rgb shine brighter than ws2812b?
I am confused how supplying 5v power allows this to work. I thought the esp's output voltage was 3.3v no matter what was the input. I currently am using a 12v supply and it is not working with my WS221812B though
I'm using the BTF power convertor with the esp32s board and these power strips. The strips won't come on. I have 12v coming out the power supply. The esp board is connected to my phone and I can control that. But the led strips are not turning on. I've tried 2 different strips but nothing. Any idea? Oh and I went in the wled app and put it on the w218x with 300 led.
I'm curious how you managed that without a level shifter? I have almost the same setup (ESP32 and 5m of BFT WS2811) and things are going crazy with random color changes or flickering/brightness changes.
Please someone help!!!!???
Just wondering is there a reason a PC PSU as that has 12v and 5v rails in it isn't an option when building somethign like this (Im thinking about a redesign in my house and have loads of thse) Im guessing I could run any comination of LED type I wanted then with a mix of voltages to suit, all with electrical protections in place already - and enough juice to light hte street. Presumably no one does not for a technical reason just the cost. Your videos have really come on, since those first few videos. Clear and simple. I likes.
Thanks so much buddy for the kind words! That's a really good question! I've never tried using a pc board but I dont see why it would not work and if it did, that would be very slick! Definitely worth experimenting with and seeing if/how it works! Let me know if you end up trying it because I would be curios how it turns out!
@@ChrisMaherDIY A PC PSU can be silent these days and pretty much comes standard and you get something like 30A on a cheap one to 50A on a decent one (but hte cost is a lot more obviuosl) on the 12V rail (although they are molex i'm sure you could chop the end off and wire it to whatever you want. Might make a good video idea. The 5V rail has the Sata connections, again just chop em off or amend hte female connection end to then wire onto the lights. Not sure how the datawires would work though haveing not don3e anything with the LEDs I bought 18 months ago! (project to come!) and usually you get multiple of each. Older PSUs favour the molex and 12v, as SSDs and smaller drives now run on 5v so usually you get more. It'd have all the necessary protection and all that as they have to to meet the EU standards. I reckon it'd be a doddle for you. One switch to turn on and it'd run the whole room. Add that onto a plug that can be controlled via you app to switch it on and off. Hey presto! :)
Hi, thanks a lot für this video, I have got nearly the same stripes, just the 144/m and soldiered multiple of them together, in total 908 LEDs but, I get strange glitches of colour bursts every few seconds. Any clues?
connect the led strip ground to the controller ground (as well as to the power supply ground). just had the same issue while setting up
Not sure why you connect the Backup Data wire to power source?
Hi Chris. I would need more advice and help, I was very interested in connecting these led strips and how they can be controlled. I can also contact you through a chat, messenger, etc. Thank you Mato Slovakia
Hey Chris, Actually I wanted to mount a 10m LED strip with an ESP32 and WLED on my wall, but currently the Govee M1 LED strip is on sale and very cheap to get. And now I have two questions: Can you get the Govee M1 Led strip without the power supply or do you necessarily need the second? And can you pair two LED strips in the Govee APP so that they play a pattern together? If this is not the case, then I would probably go the ESP32 and WLED route.
With kind regards
Christian from Germany :D
Thanks so much for watching! So as far as I know, they only sell them as a complete package. But you can plug the second strip into the end of the first and everything will run off off the one power supply! You can pair 2 separate strips together in the govee app and they should then do the same animation at the same time! I would maybe try govee first, see what you think and if not, return them and go the esp wled rout! Both good options!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thanks Chris. I went with the esp wled rout. It was more fun and there were more possibilities for individualization.
Help.... I can't find this info anywhere yet, still looking though. First off, @ChrisMaherDIY thank you SO MUCH for all of your tutorials. After much debate and a few returns of Govee lights I took the plunge into ESO, wled, and 2816b lights to do it right!❤ However I still have a few non addressable LED strips already in my space which I want to leave for now, Yet control those with an esp 32 board and wled as well.... Can this be done? Can I control a dumb non addressable 12v LED strip with WLED and an esp32 board? If so, is there a walkthrough somewhere?? Thanks for anyone who can help.
Hey Chris! I've been watching your videos for a while, but became a subscriber just recently. I was wondering if you could help me with my room's re-design? I wanted to have individually controllable LEDs throughout the perimeter of the room, which measures about 67 feet. What would your suggestion be for Power supply (Single or multiple), number of points of power injection, can 4-5 sequentially connected strips of WS2812B be controlled by just 1 ESP32 board, or would a 12v LED strip setup be better. Appreciate the advice. Cheers!
Thanks again buddy! In case you didn't see my reply on your comment on the other video: Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Sounds like an epic project! I have yet to do an install that large so I'm not 100% sure what would be best but here is what I would probably start out with and see how it looks. Depending on the setup of the room I would probably do 2 power supplies (hopefully keep the length of injection wires down a little bit) If you are wanting to have them running on white and full brightness, you would probably need a power injection every 5 meters. If you don't necessarily need them at full brightness and full white, you could probably do just fine with an injection every 10 meters. If you use sk6812 leds, they have a separate white channel and I think on those you could do a power injection at every 10m and be good
You could probably get away with using just 1 esp32 device but here are some more of the recommended lengths from the WLED info page: kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/
So much of what I do is not technical and just more trial and error. I generally will just test everything out on the floor with little to no power injection, see how it looks and then go from there until I'm happy with how it looks!
Hi.
Is it possible to turn the lights ON with an ordinary wall lights switch that turns on the 12V power supply?
Can it be set to start the initial strartup procedure via WLED on ESP32 when powering on with wall lights switch ?
Thanks Roman
Thanks so much for watching and great question! That's unfortunately something I don't know. Hopefully someone that's watching might know for sure and can chime in!
I have a few questions.
1) When we use a mobile phone adapter instead of the voltage reducer that converts 12 volts to 5 volts in the video, would it be sufficient to supply 5 volts from the mini USB input of the ESP module?
2) When we use a telephone adapter, is there a need to apply voltage to other points of the module?
3) How many pins of ESP32 did you connect the green wire to?
Thanks so much for watching! So I have successfully powered the esp device using an old phone charger which would eliminate the need for the converter. You could then just power the led strip directly with the 12v power. You would still need to connect the gnd to the gnd of the 12v power supply though. I just connected the green data wire to 1 pin of the esp32 module. I believe it was the d4 or d2 pin.
@@ChrisMaherDIY hi, why would you still need to connect the gnd from the esp to the gnd on thw 12v power supply? would this still be the same for the 8266 board?
@@one2three123 thanks for watching and great question! Yes, and from esp32 or 8266 would get connected to gnd of the 12v supply.
@@ChrisMaherDIY I wanted to piggy back on this question.. I’m binge watching your videos to learn how to put led lights in my van (I’m 61 ands just ordered all the soldering supplies! Going to learn something new!).. do I understand correctly that I can just hook these to my 12v fuse box that is powered by my dc power station ?? Thank you so much for your expertise!
@@one2three123a salida de datos que genera el esp32 está referida al gnd del mismo módulo , la entrada de datos de la tira led esta referida al gnd de la misma tira, y ambas gnd deben estar unidas para que la señal ingrese.
Cuando pones una bateria a una linterna no solamente se conecta el polo positivo y la lámpara enciende ,o si? 😉
love this video, question i have is would there be away to add a capacitive touch sensor to this setup ?
All in all it woud be possible, but i don't know how this can work together with wled, maybe you need to add something to the code.
Coltography did use some capacitive touch sensors for his LED ceiling with an esp but only for simple on/off
Thanks so much!! I would have to echo Big Foot. I think it for sure is possible but its something that I have not looked into or know for sure. maybe someone else reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in!
Thanks for the replies, im only new to all this my self so I have a fair bit to to learn and try and take on before attempting my project. Thanks again .
Hey Chris, what does this 12V LED strip makes better than the 50% cheaper WS2812 one? In my eyes there is no positive arguments, if you don't use it at 100% Power.
Correct me please if I am wrong or missing points.
Thanks and great question! I think you are 100% correct. If you either don't mind doing more power injection points or you don't need a strip to run at max brightness, I would still for sure go with the ws2812 because as you mentioned they are much cheaper!
Plz tell me what I'm missing here regarding your 12v 5a power supply.
You used 2 full 5m strips which appeared to be 60 leds/m.
LEDs are 0.3w each so 60 LEDs x 10m = 180W / 12V = 15amps
General rule of thumb is to add 20% to the power supply so how are you running those lights (which should be using an 18amp power supply) on a 5a?
Thanks so much for watching! That's a great question! I don't have the technical knowledge of a lot of people out there yet but my understanding is that led strips recommend power based on max performance. I really have never had the need to run things at full brightness/full white and when running things at lets say 50%, its still very bright and hard to look at. Also, running animations and any other color than white will use far less than the max of what the lights are capable of. I could be way off on my assumptions but I have always been more of a lets plug things in and see what happens type of guy when it comes to playing around with LEDs.
Another great video - many thanks.
I have ordered some WS2815 strips and waiting on their arrival. So I'm glad I found this video.
I do have a couple of questions.
1. I noticed that you connected the backup data line to ground. I haven't really researched this, but I would have expected that it should be connected to the green (data) wire?! I would love to know the rationale behind this.
2. What was the strip option that you selected in WLED? Was is WS281x?
Your assistance is much appreciated.
I will answer 1 for anyone curious: The band itself is replicating the data on the backup line if it's connected to ground. You should connect the backup line only to ground or another backup line.
On WLED website they say it would be mandatory to use a Level shifter for 12v strips but you didn't use it and it's working! Why? Also they say something about capacitors to smooth the transitions but yours look great already... wonder if those are all extra stuff that you can only see on big projects or what
Ledstrip 12v keeps burning at the spot between the cables and led strip
Tried multiple cables and no cables are touching.
Also the led strip seems to be "starting up" is turns on sections at a time. After some sections the burning starts happening.
Im no electrical engineer and a friend told me this was how it needed to be done. Please help.
Hi, if i have 4 led strips ws2815 12v (1 in the bathroom ceiling, 2 in the hallway ceiling and 1 under the furnishing of the kitchen that illuminate the stove and the counter). my idea was to alimentate each of his strip with a dedicated power supply and 1 esp32 how you show in this video (so a total of 4 power supply and 4 esp32 controller). could i control them all trough WLED and make them work toghther with the same effect, and have the possibility to create preset with 1, 2, 3, 4 of them toghether or alone? as an example create the "fire" effect in all the house, or create the "wood" effect only in the hallway (so 2 strips), or create the "ocean" effect only in the bathroom. I hope to explain well my question. Thanks for the video
Thanks so much for watching and great question! Yes you can do that. The only thing I bring up is that when you sync them all together, you can control them all at once but that does not mean that all the 4 sections with the 4 different controllers led strips will act as 1 single long led strip. I doubt that is something you care about but just in case it was I'm not aware of being able to sync them like. As far as the presets you can assign different controllers to different sync groups so that when you change one device it only changes the others in the specific group if that makes sense. You should be able to then set presets for all of this for quick access!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you, you were very helpful
@@ChrisMaherDIY Another question, is possible to dimmer the led stripe? or do you need to set it using other components over wled? regards
I have tons of used power supplies ive removed from old desktop and all in one computers, the output 3v 5v and 12v depending on what wires you connect to, could i use one of them to run both the lights and the board?
that's a great question! I've never tried but I don't see why it wouldn't work! Maybe someone reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in.
Did you use any additiona power injection on the two 5 meter or you powered booth from one side?
On this video I just was powering the entire 2 strips with no power injection. There was a little noticeable voltage drop when I had everything at full brightness but nothing was noticeable during all the animation. Thanks for watching!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you Chris, keep up the good work!
Hi, can I use just jumper as a wire or do I need 18awg wire to connect ws2815 + esp32 + power supply and converter?
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I used to always use jumper wires and never had any issues so I think you would be just fine. I have just gotten used to using the thicker wires recently so that's what I have been using. I figure it can never hurt to use thicker wires so thats why I do it!
@chris maher Any videos on this type of setup using voice control like Alexa, Google, etc?
Thanks so much for watching! Man that is one thing I still need to venture into. I know WLED is compatible with Alexa but I have yet to try getting things set up to test out and make a video. It is for sure on my to do list for projects down the road!
Hi, is there a reason behind why you are using such a big size 12v 5a power, compared to the smaller size 12v 5a power supplies on aliexpress? Or does the bigger size affect the brightness of your strip?
Thanks so much for watching and i'm glad you liked the video!
@@ChrisMaherDIY but why used a bigger size when they have the same specs?
Thanks Chris! Has anyone used the 24v BTF512AC strip from BTF Lighting? I'm trying to get it to work with WLED but can't see to find any information. They are 5 pin.
Thanks so much for watching! That's a great question! I have yet to try those so I would only be guessing. I'll put that on my list of projects/videos to make and hopefully I can get around to it sooner rather than later. Let me know if you do figure it out as I would be curious myself!
If you set these up with home assistant to work with Alexa/echo, if you tell it to turn on whatever you name the led’s to, will it recall the last used effect?
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I'm 99% sure that it will recall the last used effect. If someone is reading this and knows 100% please let us know lol!
how to install 20 meter ws2815 , bro ? btw your video always awesome. thanks for great content
Thanks so much for watching! I'm hoping to at some point soon make a video on larger room installs but I have yet to do anything that big so I would only be guessing at this point on the best way to do it. I know DrZZZ has some great content on longer installs and power injection! But its for sure on my list of projects to do so hopefully I can get to it sooner rather than later!
Hi, how do i connect the 4 pins from the LED the NodeMCU with the ESP8266. If there are three its just Vin, Gnd and D4. Planning to use the microUSB to power the device. Not sure how to connect if there are 4 connections!?
Thanks for watching ang great question! If the leds are 12v it should be pretty much the same as the video but on the esp8266 I would connect the data to the D4 pin but if your using a micro usb to power the device, then you would not need to do anything with the Vin pin on the esp8266 either.
Great video. For some reason whenever I connect the identical 12v to 5v converter the esp32 receives no power. However removing that converter the esp32 powers on. I don’t want to run the esp on 12V to prevent overheating. I have tried 3 voltage converters, none of which work. So baffled by this.
Cuidado! El esp32 no puede funcionar con 12v porque SE QUEMA directamente .
El convertidor de 12v a 5v es indispensable
I just set up a project with 12v and also am seeing I’m not getting any power with the 12v to 5v converter to the esp32 board. I didn’t want to connect directly to 12v but instead tested with a 5v phone charger and it powered right up. Did you ever figure out why the converter wasn’t working?
I’m also having issues too with apparently the data connection as nothing is changing with using the .local page to control my lights. Leds power up with a cool white when turned on but I can’t adjust anything 🤷🏻♂️
@@TheDb2000 Solo decirte que el GND del cargador de teléfono y el GND de la fuente de 12V deben estar unidos
Where you buy flex channel for this LED ? Its Amazing and i need buy for suprise my kid.
Thanks so much for watching! Are you wanting to put these lights in a flexible diffuser channel? Like s silicone tubing?
@@ChrisMaherDIY yes but now i swe. You dont have silicone flex tube. You buy normal linear tube.
Very mesmerizing scenes! Song was very fitting too. Name of the song? 😬
Thanks so much as always buddy! Glad you liked it! The song is called transparency by swoop. I got it from a paid subscription service I use for copyright free music.