Easy WLED Installation on WT32-ETH01/ESP32

[@iiianydayiii]

I bought one of these a few years ago for wled to combat wifi congestion I had at the time. After a few days of banging my head against the wall, I shelved the project. Your video came up and I remembered I had this board. I gave it a try again last night and it's up and running. Thanks for taking to time to put this video together. It's appreciated.

[@beamnetworks1]

Awesome, glad you were able to get it working! Thanks for watching.

[@maikel371]

Thanks for the great video! please know that on the later instals. the Wled-AP doesn't show up automatically sometimes. i've spend almost 2 weeks trying to get it going. ordered 5 different serial adapters. and now i found the culprit!. AFTER the installation. remove your IOo to GND wires and pin them on EN to GND for a short while. this will reset the device and will make sure the program starts. now it has started the Wifi :) :) :) UPDATE: to make the ethernet port work. you must connect to 5V! . while connected on 3.3v it will not work.

[@srvicytube]

THANKS!!

[@greggruger589]

Your a gem!

[@MrNauner78]

Straight and to the point. Great job!!!

[@adamaglionby7438]

Great explanation :-) from experimentation, thin wires from USB to ETH can allow flactshing but power brownout when wants to connect, doesn`t come up with connect menu after flashing just install menu, after flashing disconnect and using direct 5V power , device appeared on Wled native app.

[@lsdave]

Only thing that would be better is a POE version of this that could power 30 watts of LEDs

[@beamnetworks1]

Tbh would love to have a PIE version. Would be also great for outdoor Christmas lights or something so that you only have to have one Ethernet cable powering your lights.

[@Electronieks]

Olimex sell poe esp32 eth

[@beamnetworks1]

Looks like it would work, except it says it only has a 5v 2w output, meaning that it would technically only be able to power about 6 WS2812b LED's. www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-POE-ISO/open-source-hardware

[@lsdave]

@@beamnetworks1 Yeah, Poe++ would be ideal with 60 watts

[@LoneWolf-wn7pz]

do you have a full diagram on how to connect it or wire it to LEDs? thanks for the video

[@Electronieks]

Just 1 wire 😂😂

[@beamnetworks1]

Yeah pretty much, just need to make sure the data is connected to the controller on whatever output you set on WLED and then make sure the 5v and GND pins are connected from the controller to the LED's and power supply.

[@iiianydayiii]

Do you know if these boards are compatible w/ the INMP441 mic for sound reactive displays? I've dug though the wled forums , youtube, reddit, etc w/o any luck in a wiring diagram or even if they can work together.

[@beamnetworks1]

I can't 100% guarantee but I believe they are since they take 1.3-3.3v. Honestly your best bet might be to buy it on Amazon and return it if it doesn't work.

[@haplopeart]

Thanks! I've actually been looking for information on these parts and no really succeeding

[@beamnetworks1]

If there’s anything else you have questions about, let me know! I have around 25 of these controllers in use right now with lots of leds connected to each of them, so I’m able to test or show pretty much anything.

[@landonwebb5465]

I go through the installation process and see installation complete but WLED-AP never shows up. Thoughts?

[@beamnetworks1]

You need to reboot your controller after installing it and potentially reinstall it.

[@vanderleisilvasantos5343]

nice video, do you know if with this method I can install tasmota?

[@beamnetworks1]

Honestly not sure. Haven’t used that before

[@tomasmartins706]

Hi I already installed wled on the WT32-ETH01 but I can't connect it via wifi as you show in the video, I don't know what I should do. What should I do?

[@beamnetworks1]

Reboot it

[@tomasmartins706]

@@beamnetworks1 How? I've already turned off and on the board, I've turned off the PC too and it still doesn't appear.

[@beamnetworks1]

Did you verify that the TX/RX pins were connected correctly during the install and IO0 is connected to GND? If it’s not showing up on your PC at all that’s an issue with your USB to UART adapter.

[@Tatzuo]

same here :( @@tomasmartins706

[@Alexandremix]

Failed to initialize. Try resetting your device or holding the BOOT button while clicking INSTALL. I dont have any boot button

[@beamnetworks1]

Boot button is data pin 0 I think

[@PaulAndrewCrouch]

I've managed to install the Ethernet version successfully, but WLED-AP never comes up in my WiFi list, anyone else had this?

[@beamnetworks1]

Yeah I'm not sure why but I typically have to reboot once or twice after the firmware install for the SSID to show up.

[@camerontidrick4832]

I keep getting failed to initialize, It sees the board but never completes installation. Anyone else have this issue?

[@beamnetworks1]

Are your Rx and Tx pins reversed? I’ve had that happen to me before.

[@camerontidrick4832]

That was it, Pins are reversed on the board itself, Thanks for the info!@@beamnetworks1

[@matiasguerrero1930]

muchas gracias!

[@alafrosty]

Kinda funny that you bought an ETH board, but then immediately switch to wifi. I came to see how to setup ETH01. Foolish me!

[@beamnetworks1]

Yeah WLED defaults to creating it's own Wi-Fi network that you have to join before enabling ethernet since there are many different ethernet drivers they support. I believe their forums are pretty active though if you want to ask them to set WT32-ETH01 as the default ethernet driver for their ethernet image.

[@keving.9301]

a red wire for ground? what kind of craziness is this? ha

[@beamnetworks1]

Lol didn't have enough jumper wires at the time to get the colors correct