💡QuinLED💡Introducing the An-Penta-Mini

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@DustinWill Ай бұрын

I love your projects. I have a few Unos and Decas around the house, but I have more in storage waiting for a project. I will buy anything and everything you make. Here! Take my 💰💰💰

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

That's very kind, thank you, glad you are enjoying the boards!

@JonatanCastro 3 күн бұрын

This is what I have been waiting for. I can't believe I missed this video! I'm going to buy it right now and make a video about it on my channel. I do have analog strips all around my apartment because the quality of the light is just amazing. I can't go back to digital unless they improve it a lot!

@IntermitTech 3 күн бұрын

Hey that's awesome, always appreciated! Shoot me a message on Discord when you have it up! :)

@a11aaa11a Ай бұрын

I'm so excited for this, and the eventual high-power version! My sunrise light alarm automation will be sooo much smoother.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Oh yes, versus digital it has like 8192 steps available while running at ~10Khz vs 256! That's 32 times as much! So note you'll have to use ESPhome (or something else) since WLED is 8bit based.

@a11aaa11a Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech ooh very good to know re: wled! I assume zigbee (my current setup) is similar to wled in bit depth

@user-rb3sh6og2q Ай бұрын

Just received my first mini. More than live up to my already high expectations. Great job, Quinn.

@JohnDoe1999-lg7mh Ай бұрын

Still using your DIG-Uno and quad analog led boards. Keep up the great work.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Thnx, I try! :D

@YunqTab Ай бұрын

Dude, I just want to say thank you for all the work that you've done. I just discovered QuinLED after purchasing a new home and wanting to get away from the traditional lighting style. Just wired up my DigUno-ESP32 and it works flawlessly. Also, I like how you didn't diffuse the LEDs behind you. I ordered the wrong diffuser when I ordered the LEDs and kept looking at the LEDs without it and they still look amazing. I might steal your look. lol

@jonasblack Ай бұрын

These are so worth the wait! Can't wait for them to arrive. Well done sir!

@alexandreswioklo7346 Ай бұрын

I already bought one. Waiting for full version with more power!

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Working on those next, hoping to take them into production next week so then it'll be a month (or so, maybe 2) and then those will come out! Design, testing, etc. is all done! :D

@alexandrsolntsev2380 Ай бұрын

I've been following your vids on this one. Good luck man!

@microfx Ай бұрын

man... you solved a problem I had for a long time... thank you so much! Excited!

@Benzinth Ай бұрын

The best Dutch led guy out there !

@mrskylerriley Ай бұрын

This has been much long awaited for me. Thank you for all the work you've put into this! I'm eager to finally begin my project. It looks like you are already sold out. Hope to see more inventory soon.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Yes sorry about that, we ran out quicker then we thought we would, we should be getting new stock in about a month, a bigger batch this time!

@michael_leonard Ай бұрын

Awesome! I didn't know i needed or want this, I'm excited for drzzz to get stock. We would live to see your front lighting mounting for our own zoom calls or on camera videos. Maybe a stand alone video showing camera lighting tips? Thx

@Behnam_Moghaddam Ай бұрын

sold out! congrats! so excited... finally prefer matrix but you make me stay logged in in discord from now on 👾 really looking forward to the next batch of the mini, the deca and the plus!🙏

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Oh damn, that's a bit quicker then expected! We only had a small batch to start with (if there were issues we could fix them), next batches will be larger!

@csongorvarga Ай бұрын

I have places for some recessed lights in the ceiling, and I was always considering analoge LED strips for it. Unfortunately they are shorter runs with only power cables running to the lights, so a smaller controller with do. I was considering zigbee RGBCCT controller for it, but I would rather give the money to you instead :)

@-djs Ай бұрын

Been waiting for these, but was too slow! Allnet already sold out, my fault, Ah well I'll wait for next batch, I hope you are well.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Hoping to have a new batch in about a months time!

@-djs Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech excellent, can't wait.

@CoupdeVent43429 Ай бұрын

Penta mini arrived yesterday! Great build quality, love the connectors! WLED connected fine, etc. My initial project uses 24V BTF FCOB strips. IIRC, I saw some examples of settings for WLED but can't seem to find them. The link for examples does not seem to work. Looks promising so far since when I save the config, my strip attached to L3 out flashes when I save a config. Eventually would like to play with 3000K 4000K and 5000K strips attached to L3 L4 L5 for short under counter run. Will experiment when I have more time.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Some articles are still a bit of a work in progress! I'll try and get them done soon. Not sure about the flashing output, I'll check that out!

@CoupdeVent43429 Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech I realize the Home Assistant is the best way to get to my ultimate goal (blending / dimming / high resolution) but WLED is already in use. Your HW just keeps getting better!!! Even though I have dig quads, unos, etc. I just love the simplicity of Dig2Go! IMHO, PentaMini is yet another step forward with better HW! Look forward to reading your articles.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Thnx, appreciate that!

@CoupdeVent43429 27 күн бұрын

@@IntermitTech Your adding buttons livestream has the examples I needed. Three segments L3,L4,L5 with 3000K 4000K and 5000K BTF FCOB strips. All effects work as well. Info shows 42.5 degrees and average fps 111.

@IntermitTech 27 күн бұрын

Awesome, sounds good! Although the FPS won't matter too much if you are in WLED since it's purely 8bit where ESPhome could do 12bit. Still, it only matters when fading anyway, glad you got it working the way you wanted!

@g76312459777865m Ай бұрын

looks awesome !

@settlece Ай бұрын

great work thanks oh sold out

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Yes sorry about that, we ran out quicker then we thought we would, we should be getting new stock in about a month, a bigger batch this time!

@settlece Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech great news thanks

@robbief1 Ай бұрын

Guru!

@jameswarnock5655 Ай бұрын

The DrZZs image on your buying page is not in an anchor tag so it cannot be clicked. Just FYI. Though maybe that is intentional since I don't see it listed in his store yet. EDIT: Finally read the text above the buttons, DrZzs will get them next batch. Got it.

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Yeah as explained in the video, DrZZs will get a pre-allocated lot from the second batch, sadly we couldn't make it this time. That's why the button isn't working yet (but I get that might be confusing right now, I'll remove it for the time being).

@jameswarnock5655 Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech No problem. Just got excited before the video was over. Don't mind me...

@patrickwasp Ай бұрын

I have 10 rgbww strips around the house, all routed to the utility room. Would I get 10 controllers, or are there multi strip controllers I could use?

@edgar9651 Ай бұрын

I use your An-Penta DIY boards with my white LED strips (CRI >95) and Home Assistant since a couple of months, and they work fine. Apart from the fact that you can buy the new version assembled, is there any big difference between your DIY and assembled boards?

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

The An-Penta DIY is ahead of this board in some ways (current handling) but behind it in others (48v support for instance). The Mini is also fully designed from the ground up with my custom circuits so itself and your PSU will make less whine/coil noises since I've tried to mitigate that. The DIY is still a current and modern design though and incorporates a lot of the same DNA basically so it's really a toss up in regards to what you need feature wise. If you already have the DIY and are happy with it, no real killer feature to replace it I'd say though.

@edgar9651 Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech Thanks for the superfast response. I built already 5 of them and have the parts for 5 more. I guess that will be all I need in the moment. I just checked your prices for the new assembled boards. That is less than I expected. If I need more, then I have to think if I want to solder myself for 2h or so, or just buy the readymade product. I guess I would still do them myself, like: look here, I build them myself. ;)

@microfx Ай бұрын

one question: could I configure one port to send out a 0-10V control voltage (that's widely used in the growing community / from LED manufacturers to control fans, lights - but I wouldn't be able to configure one or two outputs to act like that?

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Ah no, first the board is 12v-48v compatible so officially not 10v (it'll likely work though). Second, if you then run it at 10v, all ports would do that. I also don't know how a 0v-10v input will react having PWM on it, it might just see the average voltage (like a multimeter for instance). So you could try it and see if it works for that, the board will work, I just don't know if it's the right signal and you would have to dedicated the board as a whole to it.

@microfx Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech yeah... okay probably not... there's no such device on the market - you could earn quite a bit of money / sell it to growers (it's all 0-10V dimmers ... that we need in HomeAssistant) - the stuff on the market is not really good tbh (bought a Tuya and Shelly .. both mediocre / bad quality)

@LivingSmallLivingMobile1 Ай бұрын

So this replaced the dig2analog when hi refresh rates are needed? I wish there was an Ethernet version

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Yes and stay tuned. 😉

@SmartLifeEnthusiast Ай бұрын

How did you set the lighting to yourself? I'm having issues with either looking to dark in video meetings or blinding myself. Would love to set up some high CRI white with dimming to inversely match incoming sunlight

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Ah yeah, I'm basically in a studio so I control all the lighting and also set all the settings manually on my DSLR so that might be a bit different situation, having control over everything basically.

@SmartLifeEnthusiast Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech how did you "spatially" organise your lights? Ring light, single strip, a "box", ...? Directly towards you, or 45°? Diffusers, I suppose? I'm likely overwhelming you with kinda offtopic questions :P but I feel like you got the lighting figured out quite well for being in what appears to be a room with no direct sunlight?

@darmstadtium1 26 күн бұрын

sorry for the noob question, can I use this to do a fade in and fade out on/off ?

@IntermitTech 26 күн бұрын

For sure, either using built in effects with WLED or they are also very easy to do with ESPhome, I use their "transition length" setting set to 3s often to make it very nice and smooth.

@nathanvancleave8434 25 күн бұрын

Since the board runs on 3.3v and the buttons terminal is also 3.3v, does this mean a motion sensor cannot be used considering they are usually 5v? I've been trying an AM312 with no luck.

@IntermitTech 25 күн бұрын

Well it could potentially if you have something else that has 5v on it since the board indeed doesn't expose any 5v (it does have it internally). Are you sure it's still 3.3v GPIO coming from it with 5v in?

@nathanvancleave8434 24 күн бұрын

@@IntermitTech Good news! I was looking at another motion sensor, the SR501, and found some posts about bypassing the 3.3v regulator. I hooked one up and it indeed works!! I've read this sensor has a lot of false positives and I haven't tried any suggestions about how to deal with that, but this is really just meant as a hardwired backup to some wireless motion sensors for a kitchen where the An-Penta-Mini is going. I also got a POT working with Button 1 for brightness control which was the other critical piece of this setup for hardwired control. I gotta say this thing is beautiful. I was dragging my feet for weeks trying to decide on a controller for a kitchen cabinet install and just happened to see this video drop and managed to quickly snag one. So glad I took my time! The detachable connectors are so incredibly useful and nice to work with. I'm in love with it and almost don't want to have to hide it away.

@74357175 Ай бұрын

Congratulations! 🎉 Question: What's the best way to pair a rotary dimmer with an ESP-based device like this without having to go through a hub? Bluetooth? Wired? Some other suggestion? It would be great to have a somewhat physical override in addition to the remote capabilities

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

2 ways you can go about it: 1. Use the 3x button input + GND + 3.3v output, that allows you to run a rotary encoder including push function. 2. Find something I2C, you'll need software support for it but that should also give you some options. Both of those would run locally and if you can configure it software wise in WLED or ESPhome, then you should be set.

@74357175 Ай бұрын

@@IntermitTech If I can use those external button inputs for anything, I can use the "platform: rotary_encoder" sensor. But I heard you say the inputs are hardware debounced, and I wasn't sure if that would interfere with their generic use. (?)

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

For normal usage such as buttons, switches or a rotary encoder it's actually a circuit you want, so all good!

@kevinhilton8683 Ай бұрын

Love the board..can't wait till it's available in US. Will future versions have zigbee?

@IntermitTech Ай бұрын

Although technically I could make it without too many changes, there would still need to be software support by some project, and I don't know any right now.