WLED EVERYTHING - My Favorite Features and Settings - Walkthrough

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

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[@MONTOD]

is there anyway to simply have white lights and change the color temperature?

[@kennethtolentino4278]

3 weeks ago, I wanted to build a decent PC. Suddenly I stumbled across one of your videos. Suddenly plans has changed and decided to make my room smart insted. And today I just made my first WLED LED Strips. Thanks Chris!

[@tsilikasp]

I've fallen in the deepest rabbit hole ever in just 4 days...

[@-djs]

As always Chris a fantastic tutorial, and the fact WLED is always updating and getting better and better to me makes it the number one app, And don't forget anyone reading this the guy who makes the WLED software does it freely but you can donate to him. Thanks again Chris. I hope you are all well 👍🏻 🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks as always buddy and couldn't have said it better myself! So true about the software being free! I should have put something about that in this video but I will for sure do it in my next one! Thanks again!

[@-djs]

@@ChrisMaherDIY Anytime Chris, learnt more from your channel in a couple years than the previous 10 years before I came accross you. Keep up the great work. I hope you and yours are all well 👍🏻

[@GearoidBourkeBrandBox]

I made my own strips from watching your tutorials and used them on a dj livestream I produced in a castle. Worked out really great. Also you've given me some new ideas so thanks Chris.

[@TurtleTimeTraveller]

Sounds super cool, do you have video of this?

[@GearoidBourkeBrandBox]

@@TurtleTimeTraveller I do look for Second Saturdays Presents Midweek

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

That so cool! I just watched some of your video and It really did turn out good! Thanks for letting me know!

[@GearoidBourkeBrandBox]

@@ChrisMaherDIY All thanks to you my friend.

[@perthpawat3244]

@@ChrisMaherDIY this is why we need discord community ❤😜

[@bobbyhodas2115]

I spent the last 5 hours watching 42 of your videos. I think that you are really good at what you do!!!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much! Wow that is quite a few hours worth lol! Thanks for the kind words buddy and hope you have a great day!

[@cyberkyv]

Excellent video Chris, simple but with quite clear points. I've been using WLED for a few months, the power that this application has is incredible. With creativity you can create incredible environments and lighting projects.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I couldn't have said it better myself! Such a great software and endless opportunities! Thanks buddy!

[@kburke24]

This is perfect! This could not have come out at a better time. I'm just about to start my first major LED project after watching all your videos, and this was the only thing I was unsure of! Thanks!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

That's awesome! Thanks so much for watching and glad the video was helpful! Good luck on your projects! Its a super fun hobby!

[@texansforever6782]

that set-up makes me want one

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment buddy! Glad you liked the video and setup!

[@timeacs]

Wow! Awesome! The whole set up and the your settings! Congratulations!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much buddy! Appreciate the support!

[@berkc06]

What an amazing setup! I am so jelaous right now.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching buddy! Glad you like it! Appreciate the comment as always!

[@TheJacklwilliams]

PERFECT! Ok, so I’m only 1:28 in and you may answer this later but, I gotta get it down. So, when you fire up, the separate modules, add them to your wifi network, and then pull up WLED on one of them…. Do all the modules show up like yours shows bottom, top, lamps, console? Or do you have to add them? This is beyond cool and exactly what I want. I thought I was going to have to code a solution…

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! You have to manually put in the names. Once your in, go to configure, click on user interface and then right at the top you can give it a custom name! yeah, WLED is awesome and no coding required to get some pretty customizable effects!

[@techbirdz]

uuufff uufffff uufff what a demo bro no one can beat in doing this stuff.👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks buddy! Glad you liked the video! Hope you have a great day!

[@cmdr.leviathan_Soul]

Thanks to your videos my lights are up and running!!!!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and glad you got them going! Hope you have fun playing with them!!

[@cmdr.leviathan_Soul]

@ChrisMaherDIY Thank you for making great how to videos, easy to watch and learn from.

[@iiGamezzHN]

I see you were just about to post a tutorial, thanks so much Chris! It was quite helpful. Very much looking forward to more of your content, keep up the great work!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Lol great timing! Thanks so much for watching and for the support!

[@jamesr124]

Insane! The amount of thought put into this app and ease of use. I'll be attempting my own build here soon thanks to you. Keep the vids coming!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and couldn't have said it better myself! Good luck on your build!

[@dsdlonyer]

I really enjoy your channel. Simple yet very informative. Keep it up Chris.

[@manikandanhari7778]

This is so cool. i love lights, especially color lights.... sure i will make one of ur setup in my home using ur video as reference. thank u so much

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Glad you liked the video! Hope you have a great day!

[@GRJOHN360]

Great Walkthrough Chris. Cant wait to use btf strips and ESP32 for my gaming room

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks as always buddy! Glad you liked the video and good luck on the game room! Its a fun hobby for sure creating that perfect environment that fits you!

[@andreaslusti4018]

Why would I make my own Led-Stuff, when I could easily buy it? Because you not only showed me how easy it is to diy, you also inspired my to do so. I make custom lamps and lighting solutions for friends and family now. Thank you very much for your Tutorials, keep em coming!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much buddy! Glad you are enjoying the videos and as long as people keep watching I'll keep making them!

[@Dubzero946]

Great video as per usual. Thanks Chris

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks as always buddy! Appreciate the support!

[@EsotericArctos]

WLED is one of the best open source, and arguably the best out of all, Addressable LED controller firmware. It runs on a wide range of devices, the maintainer is very responsive and it just seems to work so well. It's fast, can run standalone or integrated to your wifi, can easily just have a physical button if you want. Overall just a great way to control LED's. You should try the Sound Reactive version if you want to use effects with your background music.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and I couldn't agree more! I will for sure be trying things out using the sound react version! I'll make a video on it when I test things out. I also have to try out the new 2d matrix support on the latest .14 update!

[@GamingGadgetsTech]

I made a video about the Govee M1 and I said in it I might dive into WLED in the future.. after watching this video, I can’t see how I can leave it any longer to try. Love the set up and look of the lights

[@rayalapisco7043]

You’re the man Chris!! Thank you so much for all the amazing content!

[@SAXOKID]

Great job Chris, thank you so much

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support! Glad you liked the video!

[@cheekster777]

Thanks Chris.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Your welcome buddy! Thanks as always!

[@jlmpenedo]

Hi! I just discovered this channel and I'm loving your videos. Congrats

[@ferrarig1763]

You are the authority on all things LED

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Lol as always you are too kind! Thanks for watching buddy! Happy New Year!

[@byrond2184]

Thank you for the tutorial!!!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much buddy! Appreciate the support!

[@Anhidema]

Looks futuristic 🔥

[@goku445]

Great tutorials. Long live WLED and open source projects.

[@supernova8962]

Thank you again

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

You are very welcome! Thanks as always buddy!

[@absolutelydialedgraphics]

Hey man, I'm glad I found your channel! I've been fascinated with LED lights for a long time now and even want to incorporate it into my business ventures. I'm extremely creative all around and I know talent when I see it, YOU are a God bro 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I mean it!!!! An absolute machine of creativity 👏🏻 definitely inspiring bro. I just found your channel a few hrs ago and have been up watching your videos ever since 😂😂 thank you for the A1 content dude and never stop. Thank you so much🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 - Ed

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and glad you are liking the videos! its for sure a fun hobby to get into! Appreciate the kind words my friend and as long as I'm still having fun, I'll keep making them! May the good Lord bless you!

[@absolutelydialedgraphics]

@Chris Maher likewise sir 🙏🏻 keep crushing it, there's some people out here who look up to people like you!! 🫡

[@Ibram_W]

Great vid bro thanks for the guide.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks buddy! Appreciate it and thanks for watching!

[@ferrarig1763]

OH MAN THEY HAVE 2D MATRIX SUPPORT NOW!!!!!!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Yes sir!! its been fun playing around with it! There is a lot of potential there for sure! Hope all is well buddy!

[@lprophit]

incredibly sick

[@yusuf6778]

Hey Chris, another great video coming from you. Please go ahead and do Hyperion. Also, FYI. There is another. Chris, who did a great Hyperion DIY video?. I like to see your take on it. Thank you.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much buddy and I for sure want to do it! I think it would look great on the projector I have! I'll have to check out his video! Thanks as always!

[@yusuf6778]

@@ChrisMaherDIY You're welcome, by the way, the other Chris name is Chris Majestic in KZbin. He did DIY Hyperion around 2021 March. So definitely it needs an update, it's almost 2 years. If you can find a way doing it using less steps as he did in his video.That would be helpful and less intimidating compared to his setup. Thanks.

[@yusuf6778]

@@ChrisMaherDIY Here is his link on Hyperion ambient light DIY. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpPJZHmubsx-p7c

[@tommasomistron7836]

I have 3 esp32 with wled installed, could you tell me how do you connect them to the app without them being reset in color or changing ip each time you turn on?

[@danydan3677]

Very nice ! 👍👍👍

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support!

[@buildert]

Hi, can we plug multiple ESP and led strip on the same power supply ?

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! Yeah you can!

[@alafawnduh_eg]

Awesome, I’m building a 3d printed lamp and was wondering if I had to wire 3 seperate esp devices to get 3 different colors. Nope, just one and segment the leds! Thanks!

[@spirit-of-bricks]

TOP TOP TOP Great Video.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@simon057]

I would recommend you to use hyperion to sync your tv screen to your esps (compatible with wled) so you dont have to change the presets manually

[@aloysiusfontaine9364]

Dope setup!!

[@FrancisRoy]

Awesome. Thanks

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I appreciate the support! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@01thejota]

Hi Chris. Do you have any video how to sync WLED with Google Home or Alexa. If not can you please do a quick tutorial video. Much appreciated. I really enjoyed all your videos. Thanks

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! I know there is support for Alexa. I'm not sure on google home. I have still yet to really dig into this but its on my list of to do projects. I have watched this video thought and I would recommend checking it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWHcgGSwial0oZI

[@PiyathPamuditha]

Your videos inspired me alot and I've done my first WLED project. But I have a question too, can I desaturate the built in preset colors?

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and for the support! That is a good question! I dont think you can but maybe someone who knows WLED a little better than I do can chime in if they know the answer!

[@PiyathPamuditha]

@@ChrisMaherDIY I tried every option of WLED and I found out that we can create the same color scheme by dialing the segments using our preferred saturation levels and use with a inbuilt effect.

[@tha_factory_of_fun]

Thank you so much for all your wonderful videos, I have learned so much and love WLED. I noticed you appear to have your cubbies behaving as "groups" of leds and thus, they fade in big blocks. I have been trying to figure out how to do this as I made a large 3d Printed text marquee and would like to get the letters to behave like your cubbies where the effect is across the letters, not the individual LED's ... hope this makes sense. Thank you for any help

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and glad you are enjoying the videos! That sounds like an awesome project! So I actually do no have them in groups. The fading effect I believe your seeing is the Android effect and the lights are not turning off/fading per box but rather they lights are just turning off in relationship to the chasing effect which does give have the same effect as if the box is slowly turning off completely when the lights turning off passes through each box. I'm reading this back to myself and i'm not sure if im explaining that well but its kindof hard to put into words what is happening lol.

[@gencom9000]

What is the meaning.... 42 and Chris :) well done mate, thx

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much buddy and glad you liked the video! I'm not sure! What do you mean by 42 and Chis?!

[@lipsrpink]

Your awesome bro thank you sooo

[@MultiBrick1000]

Hey Chris! Thank you for this tut! Im wondering now what should i set up as my maximum current for my 961 leds with 12V 12.5A PSU

[@haansworsie]

Do you have 1 strip running right through the bottom boxes? great setup, love the video

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching buddy! So the boxes I have 2 strips. one is more towards the front of the box and one is towards the back. They are running in parallel and are the exact same length.

[@raghu9270]

Thanks to your videos which have introduced me to the exciting WLED ecosystem. I am going all out to light up my house. For christmas i have laid out the strip along the exteriro of my house. I need to configure the lights to have alternate red and white led's lightup and move. How can this be achieved. I tried doing it myself but not getting the results. I am using WS2812B Addressable RGB LED Strip. Thanks

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching and glad you have been enjoying the videos! I would probably start with checking out one of the chasing effects and then selecting the 2 colors you want and then adjusting the sliders to see if you get the look you're going for! That's where I would start!

[@vladmarchenko8319]

Hello! Thank you for sharing your video! I'm curious, is it feasible to adjust WLED without having to connect to its dedicated Wi-Fi network? I have ambitious plans to incorporate all these fantastic features into the lamp I'm designing, and your video has been truly inspiring! Personally, I find it a bit inconvenient to connect to the lamp's Wi-Fi every time, so I'm currently exploring alternative methods to simplify the process. Once again, thank you for the wonderful video and for sparking my creativity!

[@dataznboii09]

Great video. Since the new Govee M1 was release. Do you have any idea how to control it using WLED or is it only possible to use the Govee app? Thanks

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. I tried a while back and could not figure out how to get it to work with WLED. I'll let you know if I ever do figure things out!

[@TheSlimHim]

Can the segments be treated as LEDs themselves and have an effect play? Not sure how good it would look but I'm interesting in seeing how it would look.

[@74357175]

Was wondering the same

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! Yes they can. Once you create a segment, you can only have that segment selected and when you go back to choose color/animation, only that segment will be controlled. You can then go back and uncheck that segment and choose another one and do the same if that makes sense! For sure there are some applications where this would come in handy!

[@TheSlimHim]

@@ChrisMaherDIY I appreciate the reply but i should have been more clear. When I said treat the segment as LEDs I meant as an LED not a strip. So for example an animation that makes all LEDs off except one that glows green and "bounces" back and forth. Could each segment be treated as an LED so the boxes light up one at a time in the same back and forth manner.

[@RyanPV]

Awesome video! Question for you… I want to light the inside of a cabinet that has 4 doors using reed switches to automatically power the LEDs when individual doors are opened. I’d like for it to work so that if the right door is opened, only the right door LEDs come on, if a middle cabinet is opened, only its LEDs turn on and so on. Is there any way around needing 4 separate outlets to achieve this? If using the esp32 would I need 4 units to control each section of LEDs independently with the reed switch? Thanks! And again amazing videos!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Sounds like an awesome project and idea! So you could for sure create segments in WLED to control each section of lights that you want. You could do that all of one power supply and controller. Now as far as getting things to automatically turn on when the doors are opened, thats something that is above my paygrade lol. If you can get that to work, you should make a video as I'm sure a lot of other people would love to see how you did it!

[@dubs2171]

Do you have to use the app Toto control these lights? Can you just connect them to a motion sensor plug? Meaning once the controller sees power it will just turn on? Looking to do motion controle baseboard. I like your mdf 1X3 then Channel then 1x2 on top

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

I know you can for sure use motion sensors with this lights but its still something i'm not very familiar with. I would check out this video as he does an awesome job using motion sensors: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2OcimOfibGanck

[@johnw.7399]

@Chris Maher The Setup looks awesome. But for each channel with led you need a seperate power source and controler right?

[@augustinmeignan]

Hi I made a few of the projects you made on videos and I've always used ws2812b But I'm looking for an rgbw equivalent What would you recommend ?

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment buddy! I pretty much for a while only used ws2812b strips and loved them and they were the least expensive option for the addressable strips. But lately i've pretty much now switched over to the sk6812 due to having the separate led for white. Here are the ones that I use: Favorite 5v LED Lights Amazon: amzn.to/3Zguu3y Favorite 5v LED Lights AliExpress: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dm2FaeJ And then still the best diffuser channel on amazon for lights that have at least 60 leds per meter in case you want to diffuse them: Best Diffuser Channel 1m Lengths: amzn.to/3E1xSXc Best Diffuser Channel 2m Lengths: amzn.to/3jO3wAu

[@thomaswilson-td8sv]

Hi thanks for the great videos I’ve learnt so much I’m ready to start my own project using your guides.. I only have one question, for my project I need the LEDs to turn on to a preset colour and animation as soon as they receive 12/5v. It will be in a vehicle so as soon as I start the car I’d like the lights to turn on without any additional input, is this possible? Thanks

[@louisviciedo]

Great video, what effect would you recommend if we want to cycle through all solid colors in a seamless manner (ie fade from color to color)

[@syndicate7929]

Hi Chris, Just wondering if it's ok to just snip off the barrel plug from an AC to DC power supply rather than using an adapter. I'm then planning to just solder the red and black to the two corresponding red and black wires coming from the esp module and the light strip. Thanks.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching and great question! I've done that many times. Cut off the barrel plug, I usually just use a wago connector to split things and then do exactly as you say. I do this right around the 3:50 mark of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWXUf599rcqNm68

[@gurmeetsidhu4682]

Fantastic tutorial Chris! Do you have a WLED preset file you could share. My effects just don't seem to look good unless it's pink+blue

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! So I really dont use pre sets at all. I made a few for this video but I just live in the color pallet section. If I every do come up with some cool unique pre sets, i'll make sure to share!

[@9HUBERTUS3]

How to set startup animation? Like once flowing light and then solid light?

@Chris Maher corner lamps are connected to one ESP controler? thanks great job

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! Yup the lamps are connected to one esp device. I have them connected in parallel so I just split the data signal coming off the esp device if that makes sense!

@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you so much!

[@MrRrleonc689]

I've been watching a lot of your videos to try to learn and understand the endless applications with led lights, I just ordered, power supply, leds ws2182b and the red board controller from domestic automation. I am hoping I can get this install around my gaming table and be the first of many LEDs I would like to have install in my game room. But one thing I have not seen yet is how to make them all sound activated and sync with one another as far as colors and patterns, is that possible?

[@marco.scaligeri]

very nice! thanks for making a detailed video. Is there any chance to implement midi and create a custom light show with wled or any other software that you know?

[@jonizenman2399]

What’s up Chris, love the channel. I was wondering how you decide what type/brand of strip lights your going to use for a project? I’ve noticed you use Govee along with WLED. So when do you personally use govee plug n play strips vs Wled? Right now I have a lot of govee lights but feel like I can’t achieve what I want anymore. My issue is i love the T2 and I know if I don’t use Govee I won’t be able to use the dreamview with those strips. Would you recommend I just use govee for things I know I want to integrate with the t2 like the Lyras and use WLED for the rest of my projects?

[@KingZarkon]

I just started following. Question, I bought a govee m1 strip and was wondering if you think I can solder wires from the stock controller to the beginning of the strip? I’m starting the strip on the ceiling and want to locate my controller on the floor. I have moulding to hide my wires.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question! I think in theory you should be able to! I know in some of my setups using the diy type led strips, when the controller is somewhat far away from the first led strip the data has a hard time traveling the distance so in some cases I have had to use a simple resistor on the data line right after the controller which boosted the data signal and then it worked perfectly. Not sure if it would be similar on the Govee setup or if there would be any other issues but for sure something that would be fun to try and find out! Let me know if you do and what happens!

[@ThatGuyPresley]

Did you get the warm light variant of the LED strips? I've been looking into doing this but cant decide which version I should get, was thinking about the Natural White

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching! I got the Neutral white! They look great and cant go wrong with them!

[@AJapaneseDream]

Thanks for all these tutorials. For this setup above do you have 2 boards running 2 strips each? if so did you just run 4 20 gauge wires between the power supply / board to the other light on the other side of the room?

[@GRJOHN360]

Chris, how did you connect the two floor lamps ? They are so far away from each other

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and great question! I just split the data line coming off the controller and ran it to both lamps. I was expecting to need to use a resistor to boost the signal but they worked just fine even though the data line for the one opposite of the controller is about 8 feet long. Also just split the voltage and gnd wire from my power to feed into both.

[@theecstatic9686]

Keep doing your thing duder....

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching buddy! Appreciate it!

[@trevorbelmont4633]

Philips Hue who?.. this is crazy good as welL.. I wanted to ask if you can get it to synch with what is on display on your screen or pc? And can you also control this with a midi instrument?

[@hayes71208]

Ae these all running off the same power unit? If so what are the Amps and watts for it? Thanks, love the videos

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching buddy! The media console is hooked up to a 5v 30amp unit. The floor lamps are powered by 1 5v 10am unit and the top and bottom diffuser are also powered from 1 5v 10a unit. I cant remember the watts off the top of my head but since I never run the leds super bright (max brightness is very unnecessary for what I use them for. way too bright) they dont take up much power. Thanks again!

[@deandean838]

​@@ChrisMaherDIYso total power unit for this setup is two right?

[@djmixtup]

Hey do you Think you Can use chain lights in a defunded tube as stair lights? I’m thinking of trying it with the twinkly light chain 😊

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and that's a great Idea! I don't see why it wouldn't work! Thanks for the great suggestion!

[@marguslehiste3763]

EVEN better maje it sound reactive

[@okaraoglan1]

...that song though... mesmerized. Do you have the name of it by any chance?

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Lol glad you liked it because its playing the entire time! I don't know what it is about the song but it just seems like the perfect background music for videos like this. Not too annoying and just a subtle sound in the back so there is not pure silence during parts. Here is the link! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f37JlIprjJmme8U Thanks buddy!

[@rudy966]

good day chriss... I can connect 10 LED strips in parallel on the data pin of the esp 32 to make a single sequence of lights ??

[@JaiPandit1989]

@ChrisMaherDIY The Amazon and AliExpress links are different products. Which one are you using in the demo here? SK2816 or the Cob ?

[@MD-cu8tt]

Tha k you. !

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

You are very welcome! Thanks so much for watching!

[@jackson6280]

Can it be used with iphone shortcut or google automation? Thank you

[@gokhanayvazoglu6295]

Hi, how can we choose true power supply? How can we calculate easly do you have any video about?

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching! So on WLED, once you input the number of lights you are using and set the type of lights you are using, in led preferences near the top it will give you a recommended power supply for max settings but also will give you estimated option based on what will achieve good results for most animations. I usually go with that option. Hope that makes sense! There are other ways you can calculate this but I still have not taken the time to figure that out.

[@gokhanayvazoglu6295]

@@ChrisMaherDIY thnx

[@psyychotuber94]

Hey Chris, I might need some help. I can't get my LEDs to turn on at all. Im getting 5v between hot and ground on the strip, and I'm getting 5v between the signal and hot (which seems wrong to me) but I am not getting anything between signal and ground. If you could share some insight, I would appreciate it. Thanks!

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching! what led lights are you using? Let me know a few more details and I can see what comes to mind. Or let me know if you have already figured it out as i'm curious as to what it might have been!

[@WACKENOPENAlR]

The strip you have is that the NW or CW? Thanks in advance :3

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching! Great question and I am using the NW strips. Love them!

[@garyhopkins8590]

What are the specs for your UST setup? I need to do something similar in my basement. Curious how far away it is from your screen and what size screen you're able to get. Been looking at an XGIMI or Optoma P2.

[@kasoni]

Chris, I sent you an email about SignalRGB. Upon further research there is modded support for WLED. You could use a PC with your screen and have music visualizer, game reactive, and all kinds of custom effects. It's fairly new software and there is very little coverage about it on KZbin.

[@kasoni]

@@wojtek-33 Well if you're running 5 RGB softwares compared to running just one, it is far from bloated.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching and I just responded to the email this morning! Sorry It took so long! But for sure, looks very cool and promising and something I'm going to be keeping my eyes on and hopefully be able to mess around with it in the future!

[@PenceFamilyGaming]

@@ChrisMaherDIY Any advancements on this? I have a LAN center in my house with 6 PCs and want to add custom lighting in the area. Would be insane to have the PCs and rest of the room argb's be in sync.

[@patrao5965]

Hey Chris , i followed your previous tutorial and it really worked but I have an issue, whenever i powerup my esp32 and strip using an external power supply using Vin pin it requires additional power supply for esp32 which i feed it through micro USB port

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Hmm that is interesting and should be the case. When using the external power supply, is the gnd from the module and gnd from the led strip connected together with the gnd from the power supply? Its gotta be something easy but that would be my first guess. Let me know if you figured things out!

[@zenomite]

how big power supply you use on this build? planning to build a emergency lightning with esp32 trough a hole house in 3 different floors

[@Ravenseyes10]

How many data pins can you activate on the ESP-32? Could you have run all the strips on one ESP-32?

[@starlight3672]

Do i need different controllers for each group of stripes?

[@glennsnadon8025]

Hey dude.. I was wanting to run these leds down both sides of the deck of my boat can I section them off and turn one each section or LF RF LR FR individually and name them? Thanks in advance

[@quemeese]

is there an effect that will turn on each LED separately one at a time which will then stay lit till all are lit and then all stay lit until the power is disconnected?

[@swissfreek]

Hyperion looks super cool, but so far my research only finds solutions that are inline with HDMI or run software on a PC. With the proliferation of smart TVs that do all their streaming internally, I’d really like to find a solution that can take advantage of that. Not holding my breath tho 😕

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Yeah, it seems like the perfect system still does not exist and with everything there are some drawbacks like you mentioned. I personally only use a NVidia shield for everything so it would not bother me, but if your using the tvs internal apps, then all the hdmi sync box options out there would not be an option at this point. Lol but yeah, I also would not hold your breath.

[@teabagNBG]

i know about all these led projects but havent looked at the stuff for a few years.. wled is awesome i wish this was availible back then... im wondering how wled works with hue and apple home integration? can i create zones with it?

[@nickperhai6023]

Chris, can you explain how to sync? When I click my sync button it only controls one strip. I have a desk setup identical to yours (followed all your vids haha) but I can’t get them to sync. 4 ESP32 controllers; 1 per desk leg and 1 for the desk perimeter. They’re all in the same sync group in my Sync Interfaces, on the same network, same UDP ports. I don’t get it. I can only control each light strip individually. Thanks in advance.

[@Frankie_Freedom]

Question. Does this allow to like follow a music or something. Ive had this idea of like a mini show based on a song by Navinsky....would love to be able to do something based on that

[@koycdjartage2571]

Hey, I just made one of these 720 led 5m strip but show is not as spectacular and colitis don’t correspond to colour wheel

[@cochi2221]

Nice video! I have a few quetions though 🤔 Looks like you have Android and in your app, every effect has the name, a color palette icon and 3 dots & the sliders are on the bottom But in my app (also Android) I only see the name of the effects and the sliders are on the top Also, in the "colors" section theres's a "R" rounded button/color but I don't have it. There's also a "Bg" rounded button and same case in my app (it's not there) I've just started using WLED but I don't know why there are such differences between your app and mine 🤨 Maybe it's because of the version of WLED itself installed on the ESP32 but I'm not sure Edit: It was the WLED version. I updated to 0.14.0-b1 😁😁

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! I was going to say that Its probably the software version as the most recent one did have a good amount of changes! Glad you got the new version up and running!

[@sherryherrera287]

What’s the name of the controller you use?

[@Subsurface123]

Forgive the newb question but is there any chance that this is able to be added to HomeKit? Thanks for these vids. They make all of this very approachable for those of us that are new to all of this.

[@ChrisMaherDIY]

Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Glad you are enjoying the videos! So I am not very familiar with HomeKit but my understanding is there is some compatibility if you use something Homebridge plugin. But someone did let me know that if you need to use Homebridge, that means its not compatible so I'm not sure lol. Maybe that makes more sense to you than it does to me!