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This was a great tutorial. I really like the WS2815 strips. I've found that an ATX power supply from a PC will also work as a great LED power supply in a pinch. To power on the ATX power supply outside of a PC, you'll need to utilize pins 15 (Black) and 16 (Usually Green) You can use a small piece of wire to 'jump' the two slots on the 24 pin connector to power on the power supply. If you use the 'jump' method, I recommend jumping to two slots BEFORE you plug in the power supply to avoid blowing fuses and sparking. Or, you can do what I did and get a pin pusher to push the pins out of the 24 pin connector, then put a basic, single pole, switch between pins 15(Black) and 16(Usually Green), or simply twist the two pins together and use the power cable to power on the supply. The yellow wires are 12 V, the Red wires are 5 V, and the Orange wires are 3.3 V. All of the black wires are ground. There are tons of online tutorials on using unused PC power supplies for bench top projects. These power supplies provide a ton of available watts for long lengths of LED strips. With having multiple yellow, red, and black wires, you can power 12V and 5V LED strips at the same time using one supply. Have fun everyone and be careful out there. God Bless! 👊
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!!
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.
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.
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
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.
Did you figure your issue out? I have similar questions about the power supply. Haven't decided what to go with yet, 5V or 12V LEDs, but whatever the case may be what gauge wire do we use? Is it based off of the volts, amps or watts?
@@coreyevans9543 I soldered on the 18 gauge wires he recommended. If you're just running 1 or two strips then it's not incredibly necessary. I think if you're going for a longer run of multiple strips, I would recommend upgrading the gauge to 18 for less resistance throughout the strip and using a higher voltage strip like the 12 volt over the 5 volt. As a word of advice, try to find tutorials that mimick your own project and goals with that project as much as possible so you make the least mistakes.
@Octoooo I've been doing some calculations and it seems that the lower 5V set-up is more expensive than the 24V set-up. I need about 13 metres of LEDs, which is around 300 watts. The thing I found that costs more are 5V LEDs and the wire to handle the amps. Did you do price setup comparisons?
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).
@@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
Thanks so much for watching! I honestly never tried it that way so it very well could work just as well! I didn't know what to do with the blue wire so I plugged it into the gnd and everything seemed to work perfect so I just ran with it lol.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
I’m going to use this set up for outside near a spa that has 2 stages of stairs I want to wrap both outside edges under the stair stages are these leds for outdoor I would really like to get your input
Can I test this without the controller first? Ie if I only plug in the power to the led driver? I’m finding only a few blue lights come on. Or should I solder all the wires first and then test
Hey Chris! Quick question: for sk6812 and 5m 300leds is it enough 18 gauge or is it better to go with 16 gauge? Is it better for brightness of leds without noticible drop ?
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?
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?
@@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? 😉
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 !
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?
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!
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@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you Chris, keep up the good work!
That's a good question that nobody knows. I want to daisy chain 15 meters and I'm wondering the same thing. What length do you want? And have you managed to find anymore information?
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!
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!
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.
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 - 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)?
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!
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
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!
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?
Hi. Me again. Glad you done this... Now then.. For power did you connect second strip directly onto the end of first. So to say the whole lot powered from one end and second strip in series? Secondly. When I try to power my esp32 via the 5v and the pin next to it it does not power on.. No onchip led activity. So the o ly way is with the mini usb cable. Have to chop into wire to hot wire off black and red for strip power source. Then splice earth onto esp and strip so to have common earth . Be a lot easier if I could power esp from a voltage reduction board and use it to replace generic controller thats running 2811 leds How to stop flickering over full brightness. This is the esp32 that I have.. AZDelivery ESP32-DevKitC NodeMCU WiFi WLAN CP2102 ESP32-WROOM-32D IoT 2-In-1 Microcontroller Bluetooth Module Development Board compatible with Arduino including E-Book! amzn.eu/d/5nTN9pu
Hey, I had the same problem (with the same ESP32) as you but with an WS2812 ECO and fixed it in the end. I dont remember how I fixed it, but this is how I wired it: You have 2 lose wire red&white, these connect directly to power supply. The other one with 3 wire: red, white & green are directly connected to ESP32. Red to 5V, White to GND (between G13 & G12) and Green to G4. When it do flickering, it means that the GND isn't connected correctly.
@@Hrupix bless for that reply. Very clear. What's the eco difference in the real world. I've got 6 of those esp32. I think I killed one trying to power it up from the 5v pin on the end and the pin next to it as I thought I saw on his video. Ain't no light blinked on the chip since lol. So gave that esp a vikings burial. But your a trooper for that info. Want to power it from a buck converter down to 5v? Also if using say a 12v power supply at let's say 8amp and I bucked it down to 5v would the amp change?
@@Can_I_Have_A_Go Yes, the amps will increase. You need to find what the efficiency is of the buck step converter. Power out = power in * efficiency. So output in your case would be: 12(volts) * 8(amps) * .93(efficiency) = 89.28 watts = 5(volts) * 17.856(amps)
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
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.
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 🤷🏻♂️
I will be glad if you can reply urgently. I bought WS2815 led strip. I wanted to test it with the 12volt output (12.5A) transformer I have. I connected the red and white ends of the strip led to the plus and minus outputs of the transformer, but it did not light up. I will get the ESP 32 i microprocessor later. My goal is to pre-test. how do i do this. Did I make a wrong connection? Or are the led strips faulty?
Thanks for watching and great question! So my understanding is that these along with most addressable lights need the data to be connected before they do anything. Led strips that are the basic ones that dont really have data going into it will fire up with power and nothing else but these (at least in my experience) need the data connected as well. Without the data, the lights don't know what to do when plugged in and just stay off. I hope that makes sense!
Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question. When setting things up I plugged it into the ground and everything worked fine so that's what I went with. lol so it very well could be done a different way and that way very well could be the better way!
Why did you connect the back up data wire to ground and not the green wire? There is no data coming from ground so where will the back up data come from?
Thanks so much for watching and great questions/observation. So when I was setting things up, i put the backup data line into the ground and tested things out and everything seemed to work fine so I just rolled with that. With that being said, I have no idea if that's the best way or the right way of doing it! Sounds like the backup data could/should maybe be plugged into the data line? Is that what you are thinking?
The blue wire called backup and it should be connected to the same source as the green wire, not to the ground. The backup signal allows LEDs to switch to it when one of the LEDs fails; without it the entire section after the failed LED stops working.
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!
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?
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!
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!
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
I'm making a Halloween prop that is an inter dimensional portal and the inner ring I want to run LED strips with a lighting effect like its spinning up, I see lots of tutorials on how to do all this in WLED and what not, but what I'm missing is how to trigger a light show using my various prop controllers. they all just send 5/12/24v signals to turn channels on or off, but I also have DMX options in some and i'm learning how to use their various software with DMX LED decoders. Basically I don't want to trigger the shows from a phone or a button, I wanted it to be automated in a line of animations that are all being triggered by these prop controllers. have any ideas?
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 .
Thanks so much for watching! You can connect the WS2815 strips to a wide variety of controllers. But my understanding is you do need a controller because if you just provide power to these lights, there is nothing then telling the lights what to do.
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.
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
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.
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?
Hello, I connected the ws2815 12v tape (4 meters), powered by an external 12v 10A and 120W source. ESP32 board powered by 5v via the usb connector, green wire on D2 and blue wire on GND of the 12V source. The tape only turns on at first for less than a meter and the colors are random and I can't control it via Wled, any solution? Thanks.
Is the gnd on the esp board connected to the gnd of the 12v power supply and led strip? Try that first! Also make sure the gpio in WLED under led preferences is set to 2 if your using the d2 pin.
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?
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
Are there any 12v RGBW led strips that work with WLED? All the ones with dedicated W seem to be 5v and I would prefer to avoid injections along at the runs. Anyone?
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
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
Hello, i need a strip with 10m. This ws2815 12v is the best option to connect second strip after first one without power injector? What is the power for 2x 5m with 60 leds per meter? (600 leds) thank you
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I would say that this would be the best for that! If you have it at full brightness and solid white color you can still notice a little drop off in color if you only have power at the beginning but its much better than using a 5v stip.
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.
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Thanks for watching buddy! Yeah I love those as well! Android is also another one of my favorites!
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 :)
This was a great tutorial. I really like the WS2815 strips. I've found that an ATX power supply from a PC will also work as a great LED power supply in a pinch.
To power on the ATX power supply outside of a PC, you'll need to utilize pins 15 (Black) and 16 (Usually Green)
You can use a small piece of wire to 'jump' the two slots on the 24 pin connector to power on the power supply.
If you use the 'jump' method, I recommend jumping to two slots BEFORE you plug in the power supply to avoid blowing fuses and sparking.
Or, you can do what I did and get a pin pusher to push the pins out of the 24 pin connector, then put a basic, single pole, switch between pins 15(Black) and 16(Usually Green), or simply twist the two pins together and use the power cable to power on the supply.
The yellow wires are 12 V, the Red wires are 5 V, and the Orange wires are 3.3 V.
All of the black wires are ground.
There are tons of online tutorials on using unused PC power supplies for bench top projects. These power supplies provide a ton of available watts for long lengths of LED strips.
With having multiple yellow, red, and black wires, you can power 12V and 5V LED strips at the same time using one supply.
Have fun everyone and be careful out there. God Bless! 👊
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!!
This is the video that has led me down a new hobby path. Thank you.
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
THE KING OF LEDS
Lol thanks buddy! Your too kind!! Hope all is well!
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 Chris, thanks for your video!
Can you tell more about "Enable automatic brightness limiter" and why do you unselect this option?
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.
This is so cool! Can't wait to try it out!
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.
Did you figure your issue out?
I have similar questions about the power supply.
Haven't decided what to go with yet, 5V or 12V LEDs, but whatever the case may be what gauge wire do we use?
Is it based off of the volts, amps or watts?
@@coreyevans9543 I soldered on the 18 gauge wires he recommended. If you're just running 1 or two strips then it's not incredibly necessary. I think if you're going for a longer run of multiple strips, I would recommend upgrading the gauge to 18 for less resistance throughout the strip and using a higher voltage strip like the 12 volt over the 5 volt.
As a word of advice, try to find tutorials that mimick your own project and goals with that project as much as possible so you make the least mistakes.
@Octoooo
I've been doing some calculations and it seems that the lower 5V set-up is more expensive than the 24V set-up.
I need about 13 metres of LEDs, which is around 300 watts. The thing I found that costs more are 5V LEDs and the wire to handle the amps.
Did you do price setup comparisons?
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
Is it possible to use a raspberry pi instead of the esp module? Thx for the great video
Sorry why is the blue backup data get plugged to ground? Otherwise I’ve just plugged green and blue data wires together for the first data point.
Thanks so much for watching! I honestly never tried it that way so it very well could work just as well! I didn't know what to do with the blue wire so I plugged it into the gnd and everything seemed to work perfect so I just ran with it lol.
Do you have any videos showing a way to intergrate wled controls or triggers either via a physical button or another sensor?
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!!!!???
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!
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!
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?
I’m going to use this set up for outside near a spa that has 2 stages of stairs I want to wrap both outside edges under the stair stages are these leds for outdoor I would really like to get your input
Can I test this without the controller first? Ie if I only plug in the power to the led driver? I’m finding only a few blue lights come on.
Or should I solder all the wires first and then test
Hey Chris! Quick question: for sk6812 and 5m 300leds is it enough 18 gauge or is it better to go with 16 gauge? Is it better for brightness of leds without noticible drop ?
@@GRJOHN360 there really wouldn't be any difference so I would go with 18 gauge as it's a little easier to work with!
@ChrisMaherDIY thank you very much for your reply. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see your next video!
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?
Hello, Thanks for your videos, it is very informative, Can I run ESP32 to light 5050 RGBW strips and how? Thanks
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.
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? 😉
Very clear and nice video !
Looking great! is this good for 65 ft outdoor project ?
Hi.
Can these effects be achieved with rgbcct?
Thank you
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 !
How do I connected a ws2811 to an esp8266? And in wled what do I select as the strip type?
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!
I WANT TO PUT A PUSH BOTON and chance the secuence of the light it is possible with the SP32? and the WLED?
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
Could you do a video using wled and fcob rgb ic strips? Ty the setup in wled is different then regular ic strips
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!
thanks! how many 12 volt individually addressable leds can i daisy chain and power using esp32?
That's a good question that nobody knows. I want to daisy chain 15 meters and I'm wondering the same thing. What length do you want? And have you managed to find anymore information?
@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!
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
Hi Chris,
I have 5050 led strips which run on 151 smds , can i connect it to ESP32 and control with wled?
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.
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
@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)?
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!
Hey Chris! I noticed the wled program has the led voltage set at 5v default. Do I need to change this if I'm using this same 12v strip?
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
Wouldn't it be nice if you made Esp32 energy with a phone charger adapter instead of a 12V to 5V step down regulator?
Thanks as always for watching! You certainly could do that!
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?
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?
Can you tell me which defuser you are using here, the regular spotless or the 30x30 corner? Looks epic by the way.
Hi.
Me again.
Glad you done this...
Now then..
For power did you connect second strip directly onto the end of first.
So to say the whole lot powered from one end and second strip in series?
Secondly. When I try to power my esp32 via the 5v and the pin next to it it does not power on.. No onchip led activity.
So the o ly way is with the mini usb cable. Have to chop into wire to hot wire off black and red for strip power source. Then splice earth onto esp and strip so to have common earth .
Be a lot easier if I could power esp from a voltage reduction board and use it to replace generic controller thats running 2811 leds
How to stop flickering over full brightness.
This is the esp32 that I have..
AZDelivery ESP32-DevKitC NodeMCU WiFi WLAN CP2102 ESP32-WROOM-32D IoT 2-In-1 Microcontroller Bluetooth Module Development Board compatible with Arduino including E-Book! amzn.eu/d/5nTN9pu
Hey, I had the same problem (with the same ESP32) as you but with an WS2812 ECO and fixed it in the end. I dont remember how I fixed it, but this is how I wired it: You have 2 lose wire red&white, these connect directly to power supply. The other one with 3 wire: red, white & green are directly connected to ESP32. Red to 5V, White to GND (between G13 & G12) and Green to G4.
When it do flickering, it means that the GND isn't connected correctly.
@@Hrupix bless for that reply. Very clear. What's the eco difference in the real world.
I've got 6 of those esp32. I think I killed one trying to power it up from the 5v pin on the end and the pin next to it as I thought I saw on his video. Ain't no light blinked on the chip since lol. So gave that esp a vikings burial.
But your a trooper for that info.
Want to power it from a buck converter down to 5v? Also if using say a 12v power supply at let's say 8amp and I bucked it down to 5v would the amp change?
Also a secondary question to your reply.
That mean power can be sent from the end of strip and the other end supply power to our esp at start?
@@Can_I_Have_A_Go Yes, the amps will increase. You need to find what the efficiency is of the buck step converter. Power out = power in * efficiency.
So output in your case would be: 12(volts) * 8(amps) * .93(efficiency) = 89.28 watts = 5(volts) * 17.856(amps)
Awesome Advice and thanks for jumping in and helping. Love it!!
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! Is this 60LED/Meter? I'm sorry if I missed that info in your video.
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!
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?
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.
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!
Hi Chris, can you say me where i can download your backround music. Its great👍
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.
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!
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
I will be glad if you can reply urgently. I bought WS2815 led strip. I wanted to test it with the 12volt output (12.5A) transformer I have. I connected the red and white ends of the strip led to the plus and minus outputs of the transformer, but it did not light up. I will get the ESP 32 i microprocessor later. My goal is to pre-test. how do i do this.
Did I make a wrong connection? Or are the led strips faulty?
Thanks for watching and great question! So my understanding is that these along with most addressable lights need the data to be connected before they do anything. Led strips that are the basic ones that dont really have data going into it will fire up with power and nothing else but these (at least in my experience) need the data connected as well. Without the data, the lights don't know what to do when plugged in and just stay off. I hope that makes sense!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thank you for your answer. In this case, it will be necessary to quickly buy a control module.
Why you connected the Backup input to ground? Wouldn't either be connected to the same Data in input?
Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question. When setting things up I plugged it into the ground and everything worked fine so that's what I went with. lol so it very well could be done a different way and that way very well could be the better way!
Why did you connect the back up data wire to ground and not the green wire? There is no data coming from ground so where will the back up data come from?
Thanks so much for watching and great questions/observation. So when I was setting things up, i put the backup data line into the ground and tested things out and everything seemed to work fine so I just rolled with that. With that being said, I have no idea if that's the best way or the right way of doing it! Sounds like the backup data could/should maybe be plugged into the data line? Is that what you are thinking?
The backup data will come from the first to the second led.
The first led replicates the first data line to the backup line.
I can’t get my LED to stay in a solid color and every effect seems to blink out of control and have random colors… is this a config issue…?
@@Kencole19 this is probably a cabling issues. Try adding a resistor to the data line und use a shorter cable run for the data cable.
@@BeamDeam thanks… so just so I understand if I have a long data cable from the strip to esp32 module that can cause it to malfunction…?
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 blue wire called backup and it should be connected to the same source as the green wire, not to the ground. The backup signal allows LEDs to switch to it when one of the LEDs fails; without it the entire section after the failed LED stops working.
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?
How can you get the white light on the led mines doesn’t give me the option for white ?
Hi , the maximum length can be 20m and how to do?
Thanks!
Will this work with a Wemos D1 Mini? Or what voltage does the data lines need?
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!
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?
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!
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!
can we buy a Wled controller for 4 pins neon led?
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
I'm making a Halloween prop that is an inter dimensional portal and the inner ring I want to run LED strips with a lighting effect like its spinning up, I see lots of tutorials on how to do all this in WLED and what not, but what I'm missing is how to trigger a light show using my various prop controllers. they all just send 5/12/24v signals to turn channels on or off, but I also have DMX options in some and i'm learning how to use their various software with DMX LED decoders. Basically I don't want to trigger the shows from a phone or a button, I wanted it to be automated in a line of animations that are all being triggered by these prop controllers. have any ideas?
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
Hello Chris, can you please make a video on the horse running or water running effect led that is tiktok popular nowerdays. Cheers lad
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I'll have to look it up to see if I can replicate it!
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 ?
Not sure why you connect the Backup Data wire to power source?
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 .
If I understand everything right - for WS2815 model is not real to connect controller with remote control, only WIFI or Bluetooth?
Thanks so much for watching! You can connect the WS2815 strips to a wide variety of controllers. But my understanding is you do need a controller because if you just provide power to these lights, there is nothing then telling the lights what to do.
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.
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
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.
how did that 30 amp supply work>?>?>
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Worked great! Its probably what I would use for projects using 2 strips!
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?
Is this the 144LEDs/m variant of WS2815 or the 60LEDs/m?
Hello, I connected the ws2815 12v tape (4 meters), powered by an external 12v 10A and 120W source. ESP32 board powered by 5v via the usb connector, green wire on D2 and blue wire on GND of the 12V source. The tape only turns on at first for less than a meter and the colors are random and I can't control it via Wled, any solution? Thanks.
Is the gnd on the esp board connected to the gnd of the 12v power supply and led strip? Try that first! Also make sure the gpio in WLED under led preferences is set to 2 if your using the d2 pin.
I only connected the green wire to the esp board, pin 2 is selected on the wled as you said.@@ChrisMaherDIY
It worked, I'm very happy... your tip of connecting the gnd of the esp board to the 12v source worked. Thank you very much.@@ChrisMaherDIY
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?
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
Are there any 12v RGBW led strips that work with WLED? All the ones with dedicated W seem to be 5v and I would prefer to avoid injections along at the runs. Anyone?
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
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
Hello, i need a strip with 10m. This ws2815 12v is the best option to connect second strip after first one without power injector? What is the power for 2x 5m with 60 leds per meter? (600 leds) thank you
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I would say that this would be the best for that! If you have it at full brightness and solid white color you can still notice a little drop off in color if you only have power at the beginning but its much better than using a 5v stip.
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.