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I have three strings of ws2812b LEDs on my kitchen controlled by two ESP8266s with PIR sensors, providing various under-cupboard lighting. It sounds over-engin
by mft_ 2y ago
I have three strings of ws2812b LEDs on my kitchen controlled by two ESP8266s with PIR sensors, providing various under-cupboard lighting. It sounds over-engineered and was quite a lot of work to set up, but I chose to 'roll my own' because I couldn't find anything pre-made with the right combination of features without being too bulky. (Honestly, I'd happily have bought someone's product instead.)
A nice bonus is that I can program different patterns to suit moods or events. (For example, my partner requested scrolling red and green stripes for Christmas.)
(Tangent: pretty sure that despite having followed online guidance very closely, the power supplies I bought were vastly over-specced.)
- moepstar 2y agoI think you're one of todays lucky 10000 [0] learning about WLED [1] today :) [0] https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ [1] https://kno.wled.ge/ https://kno.wled.ge/ Edit: not sure about the PIR sensor though... Edit2: nevermind, it'll do: https://kno.wled.ge/basics/compatible-hardware/#miscellaneous https://kno.wled.ge/basics/compatible-hardware/#miscellaneou...
- mft_ 2y agoThank you kindly for the link (FYI, I've come across WLED in some demonstrations on YouTube) but I'm not sure how it improves things in my use-case? I have two 8266s sitting waiting 24/7/365 for PIR triggers to then light up strings of LEDs for a (reset-able) length of time. That's it. This is achieved via (relatively simple) Arduino code using FastLED. It's not entirely clear from the webpage, but it looks like WLED is partly a dashboard and partly a no-code environment to allow controlling LEDs, and setting them up from another device? Incorporating motion detection looks[0] quite[1] complex? [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/WLED/comments/10arolp/motion_detection/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WLED/comments/10arolp/motion_detect... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/WLED/comments/15vkuej/motion_detector_to_start_a_wled_effect/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WLED/comments/15vkuej/motion_detect...