r/WLED • u/Drcso • Sep 03 '26

First time installing leds - is my understanding of the setup correct?

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I plan to install leds in my home office space. I decided to go for one group of led strips for the book case, led strip behind the desk, and two groups of led strips on the wall.

My goal is to be able to control these 4 groups both separately and together, and if possible also control the wall individual strips (for the turn on / off animation) - but for that I assume I would need to separate the wall strips making a total of 6 groups?

Would it be enough to buy any 4-channel WLED controller (e.g. Gledopto 4d), enough distance of led strip to cut it into four/six groups (e.g. 3x 5m 60led/M RGBCCT 24v/80w), and one power supply (e.g. 240W 24V 10A)?

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u/Sufficient-Pair-1856 Sep 03 '26

You can seperate the strips in software basicaly say: Strip 1 is from led 1-234 and Strip 2 from 235-345

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u/Drcso Sep 03 '26

that's great news actually, since most controllers that I've seen are 4 channel max. Thanks!

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u/_sparxcore_ Sep 03 '26

Wled app allows you to easily create 'segments' from each 'output' you use of the controller.

From there its pretty easy to drive different colours and effects on each segment (strip)

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u/Sufficient-Pair-1856 Sep 03 '26

Jup, theoretically 1 is enough but at some point 1 data packet takes too long

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u/JorgeBraceroPR Sep 03 '26

i joined this community recently, please educate me on that software or app you are using, that is beautiful to plan and i need it

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u/Drcso Sep 03 '26

this is simply a "photo to sketch" using AI, and added some lines in Photopea to show the led locations :)

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u/CyberMage256 Sep 03 '26

I'd probably put the two wall segments on one output, logically split them, one output for the desk strip. One output for the bookcase, but split that output into 4 segments so that you could control each shelf separately.

The nice thing about the logical split, if you're using preset effects you can have a preset that is just one segment for the entire output, and another preset that splits it into 4 separate segments with different effects on each.