Govee's BEST Product That NO ONE is Talking About + WLED Conversion.

so not too long ago GOI released some brand new lights that were marketed exclusively as something that goes around the perimeter of your desk in today's video I'll go over why in my opinion GOI made an absolutely huge mistake with this product in how you can unlock its true potential with wled getting things opened up and you have the usual user manual dream view information and installation guide the next layer is going to be your lights and underneath that is a 24volt 2 amp power supply Plus a few mounting accessories now getting to the lights I was first surprised at how low of a profile they are I had just done an unboxing video of the new neon rope lights and these are significantly shorter which I do like but at this point I'm thinking there's no way that these can be truly spotless with how low the diffuser is as for the material it's extremely soft and flexible giving you a lot of options for possible applications and if you look close about the last third of the Run there's cut points every 2.75 in where you can trim them to size and finally there's sticky tape on the back that's used to secure these around the perimeter of your desk I eventually plug them in and this is when I started to get excited because despite me thinking that there's no possible way these are in fact 100% spotless it really is a sight to behold and if I'm being honest the smooth neon glow that these give off are without a doubt better than any other goie product I've ever tested now in my experience anytime a goie product doesn't have a dedicated white LED it usually means that it's a pretty simple conversion to W LED so that was the next thing I wanted to try after unplugging the unit I cut the cord in between the controller and the beginning of the lights I then stripped back the outer Black Sheath which exposed a smaller red black and white wire that I also strip back I'll use the same power supply that these came with which is 24 Vols 2 amps and I very well could just cut the end off of this and strip back the wires but if I want to go back and forth between GOI and W LED I'm going to keep the end on to make it easier instead I'll use a barrel plug adapter to go back and forth if that's something I want to do to get this set up I'll first cut four or 5 in of 18 gauge silicone wires for my big spool and then strip them back I'll use the red line for my plus terminal and the white for my negative screw them in tight give them a tug to make sure they're secure and then strip back the other ends before getting it plugged into our 24v 2 Amp Supply next I'll take a couple three slot Waggles and get them connected to the wires we just stripped coming from the power unit now this is something that you do want to pay attention to on the wires coming from the strip the red one represents the voltage the black is our ground and the white is our data so this means I'll take the red line coming from the lights and get that connected to the waggle that has our red wire which is our voltage then the black ground wire from the lights gets hooked up to the waggle that has our white wire from the power and I'll leave the white data line from the LEDs as is for now now before moving on I want to thank the sponsor of today's video aura so this is me signing up for their free 14-day trial and during the setup process one of the many things they do is scan the internet for data Brokers that have your personal information these data Brokers then make a fortune selling your information to spammers scammers and other entities that want to know more about you now Ora was able to find 30 such instances of my personal information being in the hands of these companies then with one click Ora sends out a notice to have my information removed from their systems which they are legally required to do when asked their all-in-one platform offers anti virus protection credit monitoring credit lock financial transaction alerts secure VPN identity protection parental controls 24/7 us-based customer service and much much more I'll leave a link in the description for you to start your own free 14-day trial so please make sure to check them out thank you all so much and now back to the video for this example I'll be using an ESP 32 that has wled installed on it and if you don't know how to do that I'll leave a link to a video I already made walking you through those easy steps on this module I'll use a breadboard jumper wire and connect it to the gnd D pin of the board and then on the other side I'll take another wire and connect it to the D4 pin for our data next I'll attach the white jumper wire connected to the gnd PIN to our ground / negative Wago then I'll connect the green data line from the esp32 to the white data line from the LED strip and finally to power the ESP module instead of using a step down converter I'll use an old 5vt micro USB plug I had laying around now once things are fired up go into the W LED app to configure and then LED preferences for the brightness limiter I have that set to 2,000 m which seems to work just fine and further below make sure you have WS 281 X selected from the dropdown color order set to grb length is set to 70 since that's the number of controllable sections this has and that the gpio is set to four go ahead and hit save and you're now able to take advantage of all that wld has to offer moving on let's quickly go over how to get this set up using domestic automations controller that has wled pre-installed I'll first put a short wire into the negative push connector and then another short green wire into the spot right next to it labeled gp4 then I'll connect the green data wire from the controller to our white data line coming from the LEDs and then the white wire from the domestic automation controller to the ground or negative from the power supply then for the board itself I'll be using a 5volt 2amp plug that I picked up on Amazon once connected under LED preferences it's the same configuration as before WS 281 X from the dropdown color ORD is grb length set to 70 and we're using the gpio 4 pin now I'd also recommend using using this controller if for your install it makes sense to not have everything so close together I'll add 12 ft of 18 gauge silicone wires which means for this example my lights could be placed about 4 M away from where I end up housing the controller and power supply this controller has a built-in logic level shifter which boosts the data signal to allow for longer installs like this once connected I'll turn everything on and as you can see the there's no flickering and the lights are responding perfectly to the W LED commands there's still a lot to go over in this video but before moving on to the good stuff I wanted to cover how you can convert these back to GOI all you have to do is take the controller that we cut off in the beginning of the video and strip back those wires just like we did to the other side then connect these to the wagos coming from the LED strip by matching the color of the wires plug in the original 24 2amp plug and you're back up and running using goie software so this is where things start to get interesting I'm going to bring in another 5 meter kit to the equation and get both of these set up using goie software now this is one area that I've beged goie to try figuring out and at some point I'm sure they will but that day has not yet arrived no matter what you do using goie software there's no way to make these two strips work together to act as a single long run and this isn't a huge deal for many effects but ideally if you were to set up let's say three or four of these around your room you would want the animations to flow seamlessly from one strip to the other like you're seeing now and with goie software the the way it currently stands this simply isn't possible now you probably already know where this is going because using wled I can very easily get these two strips to act as a single run where everything flows seamlessly I'll first need to cut the controller off our second unit and strip back the ends just like I did for the first one for power I'll be using a slightly larger 24volt 5 amp Supply that I've already cut and stripped the wires after attaching five slot Waggles to the positive and neutral it's just a matter of connecting the red voltage and black ground wires from the lights to the corresponding pieces this will leave me with the two white data lines remaining I'll go back to the esp32 setup and since we already have one green data line coming from the D4 pin I'm going to add another data line to the D2 pin right next to it then one of my green data lines will get connected to one of the white data wires from the lights and the other green to the other white next make sure to reattach the gnd from the esp32 to the five slot waggle that has our black negatives from the supply plug everything back in and you're ready to go loading up wled under LED preferences it should remember what we had entered in from before for the gp4 pin and now we need to configure things for our second data line which was attach the D2 pin for this hit the plus icon to make sure WS 281 X is selected 55 milliamps is what I went with color order is again grb I need to input 70 which is the total number of controllable zones for our second strip and then in the gpio field put two hit save and all the lights should now be on and to make this all easier to see I'll go ahead and spread both of these 5 m units out on my floor in a somewhat circular shape now when you turn them on you might notice that the animation is not doing what I want it to do I want it to be doing a continuous loop however it's jumping from one end of the strip to the opposite side of the other this is where the beauty of w LED comes into play go back into LED preferences and I'm going to scroll down to the settings for our second strip and all I have to do is click the check box next to reversed hit save and the animation is now jumping from one strip to the next as if it were one continuous 10 m run after experimenting with a lot of the W LED effects which I'll show more of at the end curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to find out how they were able to get such a low profile with perfect diffusion I started by peeling back some of the sticky tape removing the plastic cap then sliced a small chunk of the silicone off to expose the end of the LED strip which revealed the traditional three pin setup with your voltage data and ground I definitely want to do some more experimenting with these down the road and I don't see any reason why I couldn't connect two of these together by soldering the beginning of another 5 m run to this point which W LED should have no issue handling now since I can't really get a good feel for the engineering from this little section I'm going to cut and peel back the silicone at the first cut point to get a better look and this is where it all begins to make sense the LED strip is actually facing down which is Illuminating the silicone material underneath and apparently the light is able to then wrap around the LED strip up the side and out the top I absolutely love the design and it's an incredibly smart way of being able to perfectly diffuse the light while ensuring there's no hot spots so in case you're wondering where those dot cut points actually line up on the strip it's kind of a head scratcher but it's in between this very small space after the component labeled R5 and the led to the right once cut and power restored the light immediately to the left goes off which is what would get covered up by the end cap and if you're using these with the go app after cutting go into settings and click calibrate the strip from here keep selecting the no continue until you see green at the end then hit yes this recalibrates the gov app so that all the animations and settings are based on the now shorter length strip now as I play some of my favorite wled anim from the 10 m setup from before I do want to mention that for what these are marketed for which are lights that go around your desk they 100% work incredible for that and based on the great reviews this product has others seem to think so as well however I think goie made a huge mistake by literally offering zero other ideas or suggestions on how these could be used other than around your desk with how flexible these are how low of profile it is and how perfect of a neon glow it's able to achieve there's no doubt in my mind that right now this would be their number one selling item of all time if it weren't for what I believe to be a huge mark marketing mistake so if there is enough interest I would love to make a follow-up video to this on at least five ways you could use this around your house in unique ways so make sure to let me know if that is something you would enjoy seeing from here on out I'll play some more of my favorite wled animations but as always thank you all for watching and I hope you have a blessed day [Music] e for

Channel: Chris Maher

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Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 14 2024