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Strip lighting with ZBT-2
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I build my own using ESP32's, WS2812B RGB Strips and WLED. Drop the controller into a small hobby box and add a power supply and it's of to the races.
https://kno.wled.ge/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wled/
My front porch has a little over 1500 LED's wrapped around it. I built my own RGB LED backlit address numbers. And I'm working on a project that lights up my stairs. I've made a few other things and have ideas for a bunch more.
There is no support for zigbee, matter, or thread. But what can be done with it is well beyond anything else I've seen.
https://wled.discourse.group/t/wled-equipped-address-numbers/15217 is my address numbers in a short video.
https://wled.discourse.group/t/fully-fledged-staircase-implementation/2182 is the stair implementation I'm going to use for my own.
Very cool, just had a look at a WS2812B and an ESP32 - seems like it'd be reasonably priced. I think I'll go down this route.
I'm away from my computer at the moment, but I'll read into this a bit more and see how achievable it is.
Thanks for this
No problem. Just remember it gets addictive. I stick led strips and strings in a ton of stuff. My other half bought a wire work Christmas deer that had old incandescent lights in it and I threw some RGB string lights with WLED. She bought a metal star with little cutouts in it and I mounted it to a board and stuck some RGB's in it as well. Took a piece of scrap OSB and printed Merry Christmas off in big letters then drilled holes at regular intervals to put a bunch of the individual pixels from a string of RGB's into as well.
My intention is to eventually put strips in nearly every room in the house and install them outside as well. That way when I want a different color than white I can just change it with the LED's.
I'm planning to create a huge Christmas display that can play short videos and graphics on to setup where our city does a display each year. And at some point I'm going to pitch them letting me upgrade the Christmas decorations with WLED and RGB strings. Then with a couple AP's strategically placed in can setup a synchronized light show.
Like I said WLED is amazing.