WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
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WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
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Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#2This project is great, I've used it in a number of 3d printed lamps (I did not design, just printed and assembled):
Hex wall feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58HUUgFhOw
Fiber lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlQDPNpxps
Canister lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRT6GtUGSo
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#3This project is great, I've used it in a number of 3d printed lamps (I did not design, just printed and assembled): Hex wall feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58HUUgFhOw Fiber lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlQDPNpxps Canister lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRT6GtUGSo
one of the things I really do like about this, is that you can connect sensors and buttons to the arduino and send/ receive the i/o via wifi.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#4This project is great, I've used it in a number of 3d printed lamps (I did not design, just printed and assembled): Hex wall feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58HUUgFhOw Fiber lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlQDPNpxps Canister lamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRT6GtUGSo
The community is great too. Their Discord is filled with all kinds of cool project ideas, helpful folks, and discussions of upcoming features.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#5It's not just for Arduinos. You can plug in an ESP32 and have a HTTP API to control your lights with any UI you like.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#6I'm a huge fan of WLED. It tends to work flawlessly after some minor tweaking of settings, at least on my ESP8266 board with WS2815 LED strips. The built-in effects are likely sufficient for most uses and can easily be programmatically controlled by something like Home Assistant [1].
If you consider building a setup, I would only recommend ensuring your wiring is correct and the power supplies are sufficient for the LEDs you're using, unless the board's built-in power output (probably with a level shifter to 5V) is enough.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#7I love WLED and have used it on over a dozen lighting projects with ESP32s and ESP8266s. It makes it so ridiculously easy, and has an incredible set of features with a great app to control it all and integrate with other services.
- Kids bedside lamps. Using the timed preset changes in WLED it goes from bright white/blue for reading time, then at bedtime it plays a rainbow animation and fades to a bright orange with pulses of similar colours, then throughout the next hour fades to a gentle animation of soft colours that stay on all night as their nightlights.
- Down-lighting on shelving, using strips of LEDs under each shelf lip. Gives a nice bright warm-white glow to everything on the shelves which shifts to a soft blue at night for mood lighting in the room.
- Ambient lighting throughout various rooms that is controlled via Home Assistant.
- LED strips on my 3D printers which are turned on via Octoprint when the printers start warming up, and stay on throughout the prints for timelapses then the lights all go green when the prints are finished.
... and many more. Every single one of those projects were simple 1-day affairs thanks to WLED. Stick the LEDs where you want them, wire them up to an ESP + a PSU (usually an old phone charger with a chopped USB cable to split out power), and flash the ESP and boot. Then the rest is done sitting down with your phone and playing with the sequence editor or choosing presets/timers.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#8It's not just for Arduinos. You can plug in an ESP32 and have a HTTP API to control your lights with any UI you like.
Looks like there are even controllers you can buy that have WLED pre-installed: https://kno.wled.ge/basics/compatible-hardware/#controllers-... That's starting to move out of DIY territory and into the realm of a niche consumer product.
Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#9I love WLED and have used it on over a dozen lighting projects with ESP32s and ESP8266s. It makes it so ridiculously easy, and has an incredible set of features with a great app to control it all and integrate with other services. - Kids bedside lamps. Using the timed preset changes in WLED it goes from bright white/blue for reading time, then at bedtime it plays a rainbow animation and fades to a bright orange with…
> shifts to a soft blue at night for mood lighting
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Re: WLED Arduino WiFi LED Controller
#10How does WLED compare to PixelBlaze?