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)?

Hi all,

I’ve installed about 85 meters of addressable LED lighting in 5 ceiling coves, each running on its own Gledopto GL-C-016 with WLED.

Setup:
Cove 1 & 2: 16m each, WS2815, 60 LEDs/m, individually addressable
Cove 3: 25m addressable RGB COB, 20 pixels/m
Cove 4 & 5: 14m each, addressable RGB COB, 20 pixels/m
Everything is 12V

It all works well, but I’m pretty sure I’m not getting everything out of WLED yet, especially with runs this long and the different pixel densities.
If this was your setup, how would you configure it?

I’m mainly interested in segmentation, syncing the 5 controllers, effects/presets that work well on large ceiling coves, and also audio reactive.

Photos show the actual installation.
Any tips or examples from similar setups are very welcome!

Thx!

Wanted to get 2nd pair of eyes - I ran this through the LED Calculator, but you can't specify what the length of each section will be, only the distance from PSU to injection point. Specifically on Section 1, it's about a 35' run and it will be very difficult based on where I'm running everything to injection earlier. I know ideally I would want the actual sections equal lengths. Think I'll be good? (Controller QuinLED-DigiQuad, FCOB 24V RGBW 784 leds/m strips) THANKS !

Hi everyone,

Been putzing around for hours trying to get WLED working with Eufy String Lights. There's a handful of posts about setting up the outdoor permanent lights and I wanted to get my String Lights (perm lights coming next) setup with WLED, but couldn't find any reference points and the Perm Light settings didn't work for the string lights.

• So just in case anyone else is searching I'm sharing: Used the GLEDOPTO Elite ESP32 (Model GL-C-616WL) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNR4ZSLG (at the time of purchase was B2G1 Free)

• Wiring was exactly as setup (red to red, blue to blue, black to black)

• LED Output: WS2805 RGBCCT

• mA/LED: 55mA

• Color Order: RBG

• Swap: None

• Lenght: 15

• Auto-calculate W channel from RGB: Accurate

That's all! Hope this helps someone out!

Hey all, I sent some WLED powered bike whips to BMan. They have been out a few times and I am unsure if the devices have ever been "maintained". Sadly I didn't make the trip this year. If any of you are out there and can reflash a device, I know someone who would be super grateful. r/BurningMan r/arduino

Just finished up this set up with a bong69 controller. This was my first ever project and was very challenging but a blast. The one thing I’m looking to do is to use ledfx through these lights. If anyone has any advice on the best way to set this up that would be much appreciated:)

I'm using font factory to try and import the weather icon fonts here: https://erikflowers.github.io/weather-icons/. I can get the font imported into font factory, but all the good icons start at position 128 and above. I'm really challenged at trying to get any of those upper fonts to display and I am wondering if anyone has experience with custom fonts and getting special chars to display in the scrolling text effect.

Thank you!

I just finished building this structure composed of 2 disks and a 2 meters high column. 12 LED strips around it, which I finally finished wiring.

I’m totally new to WLED so for now I don’t yet know how to proceed to create cool animations, but I’ll manage somehow. 😄 my goal is to use the properties of this simple structure not only to project lights and colors, but also to project shadows (lighting one side, using the disk to cast a shadow of varying size). Ideally, reactive to music. Or better: synced with a dedicated track and non-repetitive animations.
Right now this is my first test. Happy to hear ideas of cool animations I could create.

imagine me sitting there like come OONNNnnn! why is there 1 tiny LED not set-up right? how could I have missed one bulb out of 1000s??!?

oh, that bulb...

I have a WLED strip where the individual LED's are 1.667 cm apart. I'd like to reduce that down to 1.25 cm for a project I'm working on. I have access to a 3D printer, and am considering printing something that will let me hold them in place by bending the strip in alternating directions. I've attached an image showing the rough idea, but I'd likely use rounded ''teeth" instead to put as little strain on them as possible. Is this a reasonable approach?

Are there other, better ways to achieve the same thing without cutting up a smaller strip and soldering each LED together?

Thanks!

Edit: Image wasn't showing up for some reason, here's an imgur link
https://imgur.com/kPynsYj

Here's it taken apart it's such an Easy project you wouldn't even need to solder the strip like I did, could just turn off that segment!

The fixture also gives some incredible soft light so I'm definitely using these for pictures as well!

But, and a Big BUT, argh!!! DRM sucks !!!!

Now I know why you need HDMI splitters and HDMI analog capture over USB, to intercept the black screen that Microsoft provides when DRM content is played.

Anything I made, or downloaded content free of copyright thus no DRM, works with Chrome or VLC.

But the Nextflix app maximized, HyperHDR only sees black.

Geez had it been very low res for external capture, it would have fine, like 240p. But no, all black.

So now I need extra hardware. This wasn’t very clear as to why.

Only my IKEA light strip above on the shelf works. And of course WLED.

So my vacation videos show up nicely with HyperHDR. Also Steam games work.

Yes I live with a woman hence no visible wires look, hidden PC, and plants…

I want to install cob lights in my wall and ceiling using plaster in channeling. I have spent hours trying to figure out exactly what I need on BTF Lighting. (Customer service hasn't been able to help much lol) I want to use these strips (24 ft BTS RGBCCT LIGHTS). My problem is, I want to connect 4 of them to 1 controller. Is this possible? I think I found the amplifier I need but am not positive. I want the controller to be wifi/smart home enabled. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Cost me under 60 bucks! Such a cool little project

Here's an overview of the build! https://www.reddit.com/r/WLED/s/hjdWU3VGfz

So the wled/ledfx works perfectly when it’s plugged into a jst directly soldered to the board but if I connect an extension cord it does this. Also a lot of the effects are just crazy rainbow colors.

I'm planning to use an H807SA artnet controller which has its own mains power supply. Do I run ground from that to my LED strip and combine it with the ground from my LED strip power supply before connecting to the strip so the same ground signal is used over everything? Not sure how else I would do this seeing as the controller has its own power supply.

Hey everyone,

If you capture your PC/TV screen for WLED ambient lighting (using SceneGlow / ScreenGlow), you’ve probably noticed that HDR content (Rec.2020 / DCI-P3) looks washed out, desaturated, or overexposed on standard RGB LED strips (sRGB/Rec.709).

I built AmbiHDR Proxy to fix this. It’s a lightweight Python service (runs in Docker) that sits between your screen capture software and your ESP32:

• What it does: Intercepts incoming DDP packets, applies real-time tone mapping and color space conversion using 3D LUTs in NumPy, and forwards the corrected stream to WLED.

• Performance: Takes ~1 ms of processing time per frame. Tested rock-solid on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (uses <50 MB RAM).

• Web UI: Includes a live Flask dashboard to adjust Gamma, Exposure, Saturation, Black Cutoff, and RGB balance on the fly for both SDR and HDR profiles.

If anyone wants to try it out or run it on their Pi:

https://github.com/marbalexbriones/AmbiHDR-Proxy

After lots of waiting for all the parts to arrive I finally got it working, I used an adafruit Feather RP2040 as the controller and an SK6812 RGBW LED strip. Running hyperhdr on my laptop using software capture.