Home automation over WiFi using WeMos ESP8266

[@kevinisawake]

ROMANCE MODE ACTIVATED - WOW, JUST WOW.

[@anthonycalia1317]

Brilliant! I've used your program along with Node Red to control esp8266 devices and it works wonderfully. I also appreciate your ability to explain all of this and make it simple for a non-programmer like myself. Good work and thanks

[@imushavem7504]

Totally agree!!

[@alisalem2967]

i liked the part of Romance Mode lol xD , Respect and great job =)

[@receb]

more like "creep mode"

[@Glasshopper]

It all depends, if she finds you attractive it's romance mode, of she does not then it's creep mode.

[@p__--]

I'm having trouble understanding some parts of the tutorial. Example: how to get the girl come in?

[@aHotdogThatComments]

make your house from LEDs

[@kiranshashiny]

It's a Robot in Disguise ! He used the Remote remember to control it. Loved the ending though.

[@RAVI171175]

Dude! I can see people making silly & comic comments down below but for me, you are an amazing teacher as I could have finally understood everything. I did same as you explained & they just worked fine. Hats off to you as you are indeed a very great trainer. You've explained well steps by steps. Keep it up with the good work. Thanks very much.

[@JannisDesigns]

Finde ich geil, dass du das alles sooo einfach erklärst dass es sogar jemand hinbekommt der sich absolut nicht damit auskennt ^^

[@guidopiotrowski7900]

Hahaha the romance part mode was epic. Your faces...great job btw

[@productionsofchildrenchild8950]

This together with Homebridge installed on a raspberry pi is amazing. You can do all kinds of things like changing color/brightness/ etc.

[@wittchow]

how do you do it with homebridge?

[@janklimes6337]

This is the best think!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉 Thank you so much. I learned 5 hours on arduino iot cloud how to do it and nothing happend and then I saw your video and I did it thank you

[@nikanetique]

Sense of humor 300%! 😂 Bravo, man

[@Raytenecks]

This is one of the best and easiest esp8266 tutorials I've found yet! Thanks for this!

[@halla1968]

Gotta re-model my bedroom and add lights. So when I invite my "Guest". Keep up the good work.

[@clasicradiolover]

Up in the middle of the night and found you. More home automation please.

[@MariusNiveriHH]

by far the BEST ESP8266 Tutorial out there! You did a very, very good job man! Subscribed :)

[@Giblet535]

Thanks, bitluni! You can get some interesting lighting effects by using different animation sequences after branching additional WS2812 LED strings from different points on the first LED string, as the branch will behave exactly like the first string at the point where you branch. Create a tree shape on your wall, with lots of branching LED strings. Even a simple rainbow animation looks ... amazing. You can also create a nice web interface in HTML and JavaScript, and access it via the ESP8266WebServer library module.

[@KidCe.]

Haha that end was nice xD Nice explanation, seems much easier than I expected to make my LEDs smartphone controllable :D

[@SandeepSandhu]

Romance Mode Activated. Well done, nice explanation.

[@stonesteadfarm]

Your sketch works great on the NodeMCU! Thanks for the excellent work and cool video!

[@trailpeakgord]

Great tutorial and code, Thank You! I just got it working on a little generic ESP-01 (had to rename/renumber some pin assignments in PinStates.h and the ino). The ESP was not responding some times but adding some more filter cap on the 3v3 fixed that and it now works like a champ. (Was also getting some odd 'stray \302 error' in the code or something - I fixed that with opening all the .h/.ino on github as a 'raw' then cutting/pasting them into the Arduino IDE panes not just saving the linked file.)

[@PabloAymerich]

Can you share your changes ? I am trying to do the same thing.

[@trailpeakgord]

Seriously, it was nothing... In pinstates.h: const int PIN_COUNT = 4; //const char *pinNames[PIN_COUNT] = {"D0", "D1", "D2", "D3", "D4", "D5", "D6", "D7", "D8"}; const char *pinNames[PIN_COUNT] = {"IO0", "IO1", "IO2", "IO3"}; // const int pinNumbers[PIN_COUNT] = {D0, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, D8}; const int pinNumbers[PIN_COUNT] = {0, 1, 2, 3}; AND in the main *.ino file: //const int LED_PIN = D4; const int LED_PIN = 2; void handleRf() { const int pinNumbers[PIN_COUNT] = {0, 1, 2, 3};

[@PabloAymerich]

I would have forgotten to change the Pin Names! Thanks you saved me a bunch o'time..

[@hammermetv4428]

LOVE YOU! THANKS! 16 hours searching and I found!

[@guilhermecoutinho7521]

A true engineer right here. Love it

[@Rtcmanga_YouTube_Channel]

Hello Bitluni!! Wow, that is great stuff!! The quality of your videos is awesome!! Now I can see that this takes quite some time to make! Also really fun: The little fun part in the end!! :D Was nice to meet you in Stuttgart! Keep up the good work! Martin :)

[@bitluni]

Thanks :)

[@davidwhalen4309]

You videos are very informational, I enjoy watching. I would be lost without your help.

[@multibebeelosedee]

this was first time saw your videos, and im allready hooked :D Great work man! Continue good work!!

[@bitluni]

Sorry for reupload.. had to fix issues

[@Popart-xh2fd]

Women issues...?

[@bitluni]

domoticz is definitively interesting in this direction since the app also supports widgets. I will get deeper into it since I want the lights to wake me up slowly. I will try set up a raspberry with domoticz and make an episode about it.

[@jaspervanisterdael]

Hey dude, can you put your whole sketch in the description?

[@kriskraanen9570]

can you show us how te dc converter is made?

[@k4k48g8fi3kk]

The Fade Function and Rainbow Function is crashing my Wemos after about 15 minutes runtime. Sketch Problem?

[@jasonvelez7317]

That was incredible! Informative, and almost gave me an anxiety attack! Well done. Loved the blooper reel at the end. Thank you

[@glennextra]

This is a quality tutorial with all details, great job and well thought out, nice girlfriend too !

[@bitluni]

thanks

[@bernienufc3166]

Finally a video about this esp i can follow with ease, well put and love the ending :-) subscribed

[@DrZzs]

thanks for the video. I had an older version of Ardiuno IDE (1.7 something) that didn't have the "Additional Boards Manager URL's" box. Updated to 1.8 and it's there. How did "Romance mode" work out for you?

[@toskiehill4051]

Great video especially at the last part... you rock! :)

[@mccc4559]

BRO, YOU'RE AWESOME - THANKS FOR YOUR WISDOM!!!

[@pitmonk]

Loved the ending, great video, cheers

[@rjmunt]

I think you just taught me a little about polymorphism! thanks for sharing!

[@roshaanhayat762]

Thank you Sir for this video. You surly are a great man with big potential. Keep up the good work !

[@MerlinMorgan]

You make so great videos! I like the way you explain the important steps! Thank you so much.

[@TheOleHermit]

Gotta love the WEMOS D1 Mini! But, I prefer using the webREPL CLI over Wifi for direct control and copying uPython files to/from the MCU in order to maintain cross-compatibility w/Python on the RPi. Just learning MQTT & BLYNK for runtime and GUI control. Let's not forget the dual core ESP32 big brother, either. Just replaced a NANO CNC board with a WEMOS D1 Mini prototype, which uses 3 * DRV8834 stepper drivers. This greatly increases my processing power and eliminates the need for a second 8VDC motor power source, because my stepper motors are only 5VDC. Less is more! Heck with the stepper motors! Show us how you programmed it to summon a sexy lady!😏 Thanks for sharing.😎💨

[@liney118]

awesome video bro, I can't believe I never thought of controlling them that way ;) you got my sub. can't wait for romance mode 2

[@eidolon0]

Great video! Will order those modules myself now.

[@JaronHorst]

Nice video! I haven't tried the WeMos yet myself but I've been using their cousin, the NodeMCU (lolin v3). Just thought that I would mention that I added "man-in-the-middle" NodeMCU to my doorbell so that I could intercept the doorbell signal. This way, I get a text message and have the ability to disable the chime itself while still getting notified (also let's me ring the chime at-will and drive the dog crazy!). Although, I wouldn't argue with the interruption you got... ;)

[@aymanelqemmah]

You are awesome man , had so much fun while watching your video , keep it up :D

[@killerpenguin660zzz]

This tutorial helped me out a bunch, great work and thank you!

[@TitQuentin]

Thx for tutoriel ! All work perfectly. But now if i want add effect? How I can do that? Exemple Fire effect? I try but i have error...

[@DrZzs]

I got the strip and server working. yay!! now I'm trying to add more functions. I've been looking at your GitHub page but I'm having a hard time finding parts I can just cut and past into the server sketch. Can you post the whole sketch you made when you did the "Warning: Engineering" part?

[@DrZzs]

Found it.

[@michaeleddison6765]

I'm getting a error message saying.. PinStates.h: no file or directory. any idea what I'm doing wrong? I've downloaded the neopixel directory you said to download, is there others I have to download as well? thanks for any help

[@FearTec]

I'm giving this a go, I have ordered the same parts. Thanks

[@DougCrosby]

Thank you so much for posting this. Your tutorial was perfect! I have zero experience working with Arduino. I have been attempting to do exactly what you have shown for well over a week. It was nice to show my wife some results of this LED project I swore to her would make the house so much better. Would anyone possibly know a direction to point me in to build on this sketch? I would like to add more functions to it such as Fire, Bouncing balls, Sparkle, etc. Been going over it trying to piece something together but my lack of knowledge is holding me back. Looking at the sketches for the above examples (Fire, Bouncing balls, Sparkle, etc.) I just do not see how to insert it into this.

[@VladUsa-u3v]

What should be added to make it react to a music. I guess there should be one more part with a built in mic and a sensitivity adjustment and some kind of code that will make it move in several different patterns: lights going apart, coming together, waves of different colors moving in rhythm with the bass drum, right?

[@m3mphis_chick944]

I love your channel. You are the best.

[@dirko8024]

Hello, must a level converter 3.3V to 5V be built between the data pin of the WS2812B and the Wemos, since the Wemos only tolerates 3.3V on the data pins? Not that the Wemos or another ESP8266 give up the ghost? Otherwise a great video, thumbs up.

[@MatthewHartsuch]

Great content dude!

[@Dennild]

Could you make a video or a written setup of your supply? i have bought most of the itesm now still need a good way to power it all :)

[@nishiter]

Dennis Routh Andersen these strips take special power supply...thats painfulll....around 90w and 5v...so more then 18 amps at 5v. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@Dennild]

Yea i have done some research and have figured out a solution. :)

[@nishiter]

Dennis Routh Andersen pls share how....one option to put supply on both ends..

[@Dennild]

im basicly powering it multiple places on the long chain useing 2 laptop power bricks. Only the Signal wire is going trough it all.

[@nishiter]

Dennis Routh Andersen laptop power brick is 19v i guesss....

[@musabaybek1957]

A great helpful video. But I have a question. The ip adress that you have found at 08.03, is occured/created because you connected your esp to your internet? Or there already was an ip adress that is written on to the esp before you buy it. What I want to learn is, does all esp32 microcontrollers come with a special ip adress or those ip adresses become created when we connect them to our internet. Thanks in advance..

[@clasicradiolover]

Like your sense of humor.

[@NetoXxX123]

Hey, ich habe mir eine WortUhr gebaut mit einem ESP8266 und wollte mal nachfragen, ob du eine Idee hast, wie ich mein Programm mit deinem Verbinden kann, sodass ich die Uhr über ein Web Interface steuern kann.

[@bineetjha346]

All the geek talk just evaporates when the romance mode is activated! Great video.. you seem to have a knack for it :)

[@squalazzo]

Hi, very well done! What's inside your custom power supply box? Seems 3 buck converters... Why 3? Can you share details and schematic? Thanks

[@bitluni]

yeah.. 3 cheap ass buck converters in parallel. I messed up the audio on the footage while making it. I'll try to upload it on the second channel by tomorrow. in hindsight I'd rather put a 18V wire in parallel to the strip and place each of the converters every 100 LEDs. The flex PCB isn't conductive enough to transport all the amps needed up to the end when going white in full brightness

[@squalazzo]

thanks, i'll wait then :)

[@bitluni]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ_ZaGp3itufr7c

[@daveyrocket68]

Fantastic! Thanks for your hard work

[@btcsys]

Very nice video...can I use the esp8266 to grab the current time from the internet or GPS and display it? If you can get the time from GPS it would be a very accurate timepiece for a car or motorcycle

[@luisacevedo324]

Wow. Just what I was looking for. Not a computer geek but I think I can figure it out. Thanks buddy. I now have a nice project to do 👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@balentinikontokonstanti8808]

very nice work with clear instructions

[@TRCCtv]

Great video, i am looking to make something similar, but i see your power supplies show you only using 4 amp, but on the led manufacturer's site it says it takes 18w/m (for 60led/m which it looks like you have) and it looks like you have a 5m strip, it should take 18amp but is only taking 4 amp, can you explain?

[@pmaegerman]

18W when it is full white / full brightness

[@andreamitchell4758]

that sounds awful high to me i never hear of led strip using 18w let alone 100w ! that is what he is saying 18w per meter, times 5m no way in hell even at full brightness white i was just watching a great scott video where he builds a hyperion ambilight with one of these strips and a pi zero and he used a 5v 9w power supply to power the strip the pi zero and an HDMI splitter

[@kirkb4989]

There are things you can do like never allow the strip to run all white at full brightness (way too bright anyway) and you could therefore use a lower current supply. Remember, an LED typically needs 10-20ma (full bright) and each pixel has 3 leds so in theory you could have 60ma per pixel current draw off the 5v.

[@stellar3327]

@@andreamitchell4758 they do use 18w per meter at full brightness white

[@sshutupurface8345]

excellent tutorial thanks man

[@wardope]

well you can even take automation futher with tasker and some of the auto apps plugins. like for instance say out loude to turn on or off the light. or make it turn off when you leave home. even make it a wifi ambilight for you Tv. if you so desire! i have lots of Those SEP8266 that i use for all kind of home automation along side android.

[@billgill7543]

Great work,very clear video, now to use fauxmo and Amazon echo to control it.

[@DrZzs]

I'd like to add some animations similar to Rainbow and Wave. I can write the sketches and get them to run on the lights, but I don't know enough about the server and calling the new sketches with links like you have. Can someone point me to a tutorial that might help?? Thanks!

[@DougDuncanDig]

Thank you very much for the walkthrough! I'm building one of these to mount under my kid's skateboard. :D

[@AKIRAfotografie]

Superlässig! Toller Sketch zum Schluss.

[@harounhajem7972]

Nicley done, very educational and inspiring.

[@sawyer5847]

THANK YOU SO MUCH, finally a video which shows exactly what I wanna do

[@andreashotzel172]

klasse, einfach klasse :-D

[@bitluni]

danke

[@andreashotzel172]

nichts zu danken, was spitze ist, ist nun mal spitze :-)

[@headstonegraveyards5370]

Welcome back!

[@ShashankNaithani]

Hello, blunt's lab Thanks for such an innovative video. I am very much excited to make something but I m not from the electronics background. What step should I follow to make a simple project over wifi? DOne some C programming in School. Also, I saw a video where Blynk App is used. pls guide me I m confused

[@rosebrogan6249]

Is there someplace online to get the DC converter? You said made yours, just wondering if there's one that would connect to the LEDs in the same way.

[@Regz786d]

I have followed this video 2 years ago and got it working fine. But with updated drivers and everything else LEDS are blinking too fast now. What setting I should check ?

[@TheFeFactor]

Is it possible to drive DC12V WS2815 strips with WeMos ESP8266? Would be nice to see an example. I will have four 10 meters long strips with 600 LED on each strip.

[@jhonsonagustino2679]

Very interesting, for the led strips using how many ampere for 300 leds.

[@pauliuspaulius7243]

After so many hours looking for decent information how to connect led strip. I found your video and finally my LED strip lit up! But still didn't get it how to connect to wifi :)

[@rikimontano]

hi, thank you for your tutorial it helped me a lot with the LED server, i have a question for you, i´m planning to buy 10 x ESP8266, each one is going to have 15 WS812B LED´s, i´m trying to control them individually at the same time for a little show, could you recommend me how to do that? i´m looking for ArtNet and a DMX software but i don´t know if that´s the best way to do it, thanks!

[@ЮраВасильев-э6б]

Shortcuts clicking on the firmware, I saw a large number of files to deal with them? they should be collected in one? as you did in the vidio ...

[@sergeimo]

Nice project. Any chance it will progress to support RGBW (sk6812 based) strings as well?

[@R73CH]

Nice video and good tutorial. My led strip and power supply have just arrived from China and already working. I just wonder about connections. In many tutorials it is said that one needs to add 1000uF capacitor at the begining of the strip and also add 470 Ohm resistor between data and signal pin. What do you think about it? Is it necessary?

[@fiddysplayground]

Rafal L just fucking do it . cap is for wrong wiring to live PS resistor is there so you dont fuck up

[@accountdeactivated5486]

thisoneisforccommenting ok did you try it on your own before rceommending it to other people? I dont think so. The datasheet of the Ws2812B says the High Level has to be minmum 3.5V and ESP8266 works with 3.3V. But still works. With a resistor the voltage drops. I tried it with 220 Ohm and it did not work at all. It kind of did what it should but with highly offsetted colors.

[@TheAbhro]

I can't understand where is the code for pin switching to turn on-off the relay connected to the lamp, is the "handlerf" function used for it? please clarify this... Thanks for the project

[@DougDuncanDig]

BitLuni, I get the message "error: 'D0' was not declared inthis scope" and I get an error message for each Dx variable (9 errors). I'm far from a coder but I looked through it and didn't see anything obvious. I am using a Adafruit Huzzah 8266 is the only difference. Could that be causing the errors?

[@accountdeactivated5486]

Select Wemod D1 Mini as your developement board.

[@rkocheta]

Great vid....But would like to ask...if i can directly switch on off the 5 or 6 led using gpio pins?? I m not techy ...bt bit confused...help would be really appreciated...

[@bitluni]

Sorry, there is no function to control individual LEDs, yet. Hmm.. I wonder how I could open this up more to contributions. I guess there are people out there that modified my sketch in this manner already...

[@HariWiguna]

Great content and presentation! Well done! PS: I thought the ESP was cheap when the ESP1 was $3. The Wemos has more pins AND built-in USB interface for less than $3!?

[@bitluni]

Including shipping all over the world... Sick isn't it? Using the affiliate links from the description it even gives me a small cut without getting more expensive :-o

[@jesuishalil]

Just my 2 cents but....Enjoy my 2 cents =^)

[@sladjakostic5096]

Nice video. You may also want to checkout the review of home automation on my blog at *alfredreviews. com/home-automation-review/* Thanks, Baxter.

[@andreamitchell4758]

there is a sketch/smarthing FW/device handler for smart things for an ESP8266 based RGBW/WW LED strip controller the H801 on smartthings forums i was wondering if anyone would know weather this could be easily ported to do the same thing on this device ,flash it with a similar sketch and have it work with smart things ,or if anyone has any other ideas about how this could be controlled more directly with alexa(no smartthings hub)to control RGB/W strips , these are even cheaper than the H801 esp8266 strip controllers or would these not be sufficient for RGB/W , the H801 has 4 large transistors voltage regulators i think , they must serve some essential function no? like does this not have the ability to run longer strips because of the smaller voltage regulators? or are these only good for the individually addressable type strips and not regular RGB , RGBW?

[@omarahmed2608]

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[@dariuszrybak1224]

Hi, I first checked the 144 diodes and everything ok now I have 438 and so many diodes do not want to work. For 300 yes at 330 I did not give so two nodemcu, but it is a nuisance. Do you know why one driver can not control so many LEDs?

[@dmini647]

Hi, it's a great tutorial. Thank you for posting it. I have a litte question about Rainbow function: with which variable can I decrease the LED value(If I want to dim the LEDs from 255 to 64) Thank you in andvance

[@DerSennin]

I don't think there is a variable to dim the LEDs. But there is a function. Go to the libraries folder and there is the file "Adafruit_CircuitPlayground.cpp". Last function is "void Adafruit_CircuitPlayground::senseColor()". It looks like you can change the brightness with strip.setBrightness(new_brightness); You can set the brightness from 1-255. I can't check if it work bc i don't have all my parts yet :(

[@TheStrangeAlchemist]

Great video, but don't you need 5V logic to signal the LED strip?

[@NikhileshBhure]

I have 2 strip of ws2812b 5meter. Total 10meter 60/m 5volt. Can you tell me which adapter will be better 5v 20amp? Or 5v 10amp? I m using arduino to program. Thanks

[@jennysmirnov3872]

hey in wemos the data pin output is 3.3v. the ledstrip need 5v. if not, it's flicker. love your videos!!!

[@bitluni]

never had problems. 3.3 is still above the logic high threshold for 5v logic. if it's a problem then the capacity of the wire is too high

[@jennysmirnov3872]

Thank you, dear man I'm probably doing something wrong Because when I check it, at the Arduario Uno everything is fine I'll keep looking for the problem Again, this channel is one of my favorites

[@nine81]

@@jennysmirnov3872 I have heard that this can sometimes be a problem. Suggest you use a logic level converter to boost the data line on the LED's to 5V.

[@PedroMiguel1]

Hey brother Nice Job with this esp, i´m trying to do the same thing in my room but my LED has 4 wires in total, where should i connect the RED GREEN BLUE and the Ground ?

[@wazzer5293]

Brilliant and innovative technical. Thx for sharing..

[@nc2010vettef55]

Great video! Thanks for posting this. I just started using Arduino and am looking to do something like this. Can you give us any more detail on the power supply you used? You said 18 V. What about amps? And the converter you built? Thanks!

[@kkingkreso]

Have you made an updated version of this Light? Especially in means of a app or advanced browser handling?

[@m3phisto23]

so i bult a similar setup with my NodeMcu v3, as i understand it it should be very similar. but in my setup the LEDs are flickering and especially in with the wave function some show colores that should not be there. i thought this might be because the digital out is using 3V and the led strip is intended to be used with 5V. could this be correct? if so, why didn't you need a level shifter to correct this?

[@drkastenbrot]

you should use a psu that can deliver 15 amps, as your 4 amp test was only driving one chip per led.

[@Smartliving-udanagayan]

Really nice Tutorial and very good presentation ...very nice

[@hugobalder7447]

Braucht man keinen level shifter wenn man die leds an den ausgang vom esp8266 anschliesst ? Ich dachte der esp kann am datenausgang nur 3,3v liefern oder kommen da 5v raus ?

[@emanuelerben]

Normalerweise schon. funktioniert aber auch oft ohne. Denke aber dran, ein Wiederstand in die Datenlinie einzubauen und einen Kondensator zu positiv und negativ hinzu zu löten

[@mitchh6471]

is the Arduino ied for mac different then the ied for pc? i don't have anyone of those options to add a library or see a sketch in the Arduino ied!! i really want to do this but i cant because of these limitations!! any way you could point me in the correct direction!

[@robinbelon186]

Hi, how do you custom URL arguments ? Like "/wave?r=255&g=32...." ? I don't understand