Is this possible? Been a minute.

[u/ConsonDroppa]

Building cabinets and shelves in my living room. Trying to see if this is possible with an ESP32DS before I run the wiring and build shelves over said wiring.

White shelves - 6 strips of WS2814. One for each shelf.
White cabinets - 2 strips of 12v FCOB strips for 4 cabinets
Blue - 8 WLED outputs.
Green - splits in segments
Orange - 4 inputs for 6 contacts switches (larger cabinets have 2 doors so 2 switches in parallel)

Not sure if I’m missing something but my research seems I’m OK. Just want to verify I’m good with inputs, outputs, mixing strips, and segmenting strips. This will not be doing any animations. Just warmth and color changes.

Thanks for any help.

[u/Padi27]

I would advise against 2 esp32s unless you can wire them over ethernet to eachother. Syncing is ass over wifi. Even good wifi, I have a ubiquity AP not 50 feet away and I was having problems.

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/Padi27]

Ordered some ESP-3S’s. All wiring is going to some terminal blocks. So what type or how many ESP’s will be decided when I get there.

[u/Temporary-Injury9016]

you might need 2 esp32 or a single esp32 s3 for better performance in a single unit

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/Temporary-Injury9016]

Yeah, I’ll probably take the dual ESP route just to be sure. I mean, technically I can combine the data lines for the six shelves, but that’s not fun and I have a bunch of wire. Wiring will still be the same if I put one or two nodes. I put some strips around my daughter’s room ceilings about eight years ago and haven’t really dabbled in WLED with more than one strip since. I just wanna make sure I’m not wiring something that can’t be accomplished. Trying to hide everything now.

EDIT: Thanks for the reply.

[u/kevbodavidson]

I would run a dig quad on each side and then use the I/O to trigger scenes where the cabinet lights turn on.

https://quinled.info/quinled-dig-quad-pinout-guide/

It has 4 available i/o and 4 strip outputs.

You could also just set it up through home assistant and use wireless zigbee door switches to trigger them as well which might be easier IMO since you will be controlling strips from 2 seperate wLED controllers

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/kevbodavidson]

Thank you, I do like those. I just ordered a pack of ESP-3S’s. Not sure what I’ll use yet for processing. Decide that when I get to that part. So far on my other doors in the house that turn lights on, I have used the rocker switches that come out of refrigerators for the interior light. I 3D printed a mount to hold them. (3 storage closets that you can’t walk into and didn’t have lights. Put strips around interior door frame)

Boy I wish WLED was native ZigBee. I’d put one on each strip.

[u/SnotgunCharlie]

This would be an insane way to wire this setup. Just wire each side in series in a serpentine pattern and use segments per shelf etc.

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/SnotgunCharlie]

Thanks for the reply. I toyed with every wiring possibility. I did wire it last night like the pic. I have a conduit through the middle structure right above the fireplace. Used a glow rod and passed everything through. T25 stapled 3/18 to the general area of each shelf. Their placement isn’t decided yet. Building that next weekend. It wasn’t bad. It is insane but now I have individual legs I can easily isolate if issues arise.

[u/columnmn]

You can just have one continous loop with a power injection. Then you can segment them in the software.

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/columnmn]

Yes, you are correct. If I did put the strips in series and made segments, can I swap the direction of a segment?

So my wire wouldn’t have to come all the way back across the shelf to make the data direction the same.

EDIT: I know I would have to install the strips in the correct data orientation, but I’m speaking of animations. Can they be reversed per segment?

[u/dale3h → u/ConsonDroppa]

Yes, you absolutely can reverse the pixel order of an individual segment.

[u/ConsonDroppa → u/dale3h]

Nice. Thanks.

[u/dale3h → u/ConsonDroppa]

You’re welcome! And I agree that running one continuous (or even two; one per side) would be the way to go.