I love WLED and have used it on over a dozen lighting projects with ESP32s and ESP8266s. It makes it so ridiculously easy, and has an incredible set of features with a great app to control it all and integrate with other services.<p>- Kids bedside lamps. Using the timed preset changes in WLED it goes from bright white/blue for reading time, then at bedtime it plays a rainbow animation and fades to a bright orange with pulses of similar colours, then throughout the next hour fades to a gentle animation of soft colours that stay on all night as their nightlights.<p>- Down-lighting on shelving, using strips of LEDs under each shelf lip. Gives a nice bright warm-white glow to everything on the shelves which shifts to a soft blue at night for mood lighting in the room.<p>- Ambient lighting throughout various rooms that is controlled via Home Assistant.<p>- LED strips on my 3D printers which are turned on via Octoprint when the printers start warming up, and stay on throughout the prints for timelapses then the lights all go green when the prints are finished.<p>... and many more. Every single one of those projects were simple 1-day affairs thanks to WLED. Stick the LEDs where you want them, wire them up to an ESP + a PSU (usually an old phone charger with a chopped USB cable to split out power), and flash the ESP and boot. Then the rest is done sitting down with your phone and playing with the sequence editor or choosing presets/timers.
I'm a huge fan of WLED. It tends to work flawlessly after some minor tweaking of settings, at least on my ESP8266 board with WS2815 LED strips. The built-in effects are likely sufficient for most uses and can easily be programmatically controlled by something like Home Assistant [1].<p>If you consider building a setup, I would only recommend ensuring your wiring is correct and the power supplies are sufficient for the LEDs you're using, unless the board's built-in power output (probably with a level shifter to 5V) is enough.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.home-assistant.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.home-assistant.io</a>
This project is great, I've used it in a number of 3d printed lamps (I did not design, just printed and assembled):
Hex wall feature: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58HUUgFhOw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k58HUUgFhOw</a>
Fiber lamp: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlQDPNpxps" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGlQDPNpxps</a>
Canister lamp: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRT6GtUGSo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRT6GtUGSo</a>
Huge fan of WLED here.<p>- I wanted a semi-permanent lighting fixture for Christmas, but something that would work for other holidays as well. I took a bunch of bullet-style leds and inserted them into holes I drilled on a piece of material that matched the gutters. Mounted them just underneath the gutter, you don't even see them unless you're looking for them. "Hanging" my xmas lights outdoors means I hit one IOT button that turns on the power supply, then I can navigate to the private IP attached to the strand. The interface is easy enough that the kids/missus change the lights whenever they feel like it.<p>- Two years in a row now for Halloween, I used WLED for my pumpkin carving. Carve out the inside, then drill evenly-spaced holes around the pumpkin and insert the same bullet-style LEDs into each hole facing the outside. Wifi-enabled pumpkin. The neighborhood kids call us "the house with the UFO pumpkin that gives out full-sized candybars".
Does anyone know of a compatible ESP32 development board with a built-in microphone and frequency analyser e.g. an MSGEQ7 (for sound-reactive projects)?<p>Here's their list of compatible hardware:
<a href="https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/Compatible-hardware" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/Compatible-hardware</a>
How does WLED compare to PixelBlaze?<p><a href="https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze" rel="nofollow">https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze</a>