How to Install WLED on an ESP32 Board and connect to your phone

[Music] foreign on an esp32 board so this is an esp32 Port this is the board that I use and that is probably the most common for people to use for wled let's go ahead and plug the board in using a micro USB cable now go ahead and go to install dot wled dot me so one thing to note especially if you're on a Mac is that you can't use Safari you're gonna have to use something else I'm currently using Chrome so the first step real fast especially if this is your first time I recommend going ahead and installing the com drivers so to do that go ahead and just hit no device found and then you're going to go ahead and choose one of these links as you can see the board that we are using is the square chip so that is the one that we're going to click on it's going to take you to this page go ahead and click on over to downloads scroll down and because I am using a Mac I'm going to go ahead and click on the Mac driver so we're going to go ahead and open this up double click on the dot DMG and then go ahead and just double click on the driver and then just follow all the prompts there we are driver's installed so go ahead and go back to the web page we can close this tab out so the windows version is a little bit different once you download the driver just go in right click and install and then you'll be able to move on to the next step but now that we're back to the website go ahead and come on down and click install and then it's going to ask a serial Port up here so you're going to want to click one usually on Windows it just shows the one but I'm going to click on the USB to uart one and then hit connect then go ahead and hit install wled and then click install so if you get this message I have not come across a board that doesn't require you to do this all you need to do is hold the little boot Button on the board while you click install and then once the progress wheel and percentage come up you can then release the boot Button and the install will continue as normal so let's go ahead and do that hold the little boot Button hit install then install as you can see it's erasing just keep holding the button now the progress wheel is up so you can release the button and you're good to go let's go ahead and wait for this to finish there we are the installation is complete go ahead and just click next so now it's going to ask you to configure your Wi-Fi you're going to want to do this so you can connect to it so go ahead and just add your network name and the password then once all your information is inputted go ahead and just hit connect you now have wled installed on your board but before we finish and exit out there's a couple more things I recommend doing go ahead and just go to visit device and this brings up the actual board running wled so the first thing we're going to change real fast is the address to make it easier to connect to so go ahead and go to configure go to Wi-Fi setup then you're going to want to go down to the m DNS address and change that to something that describes what the board is going to be used for so for mine I'm going to name mine kitchen LED dot local and then just go down hit save and connect so go ahead and open a new tab go ahead and type in http kitchen led.local hit enter and there we are now we're connected so now you can connect easily using any browser with a URL that you made basically and if you'd like to connect it to your phone and the wled app which I would definitely recommend it's super super easy go ahead and just go into the wled app go ahead and make sure the board is connected to power and then click the plus icon in the upper right and then we're going to go ahead and click discover lights and then as you can see it said found wled in three other lights we're going to hit stop Discovery and hit the check mark and now the new wled light is right down here go ahead and turn it off real fast but obviously wled isn't the best name for it just because that's what they all show up as and it doesn't describe the board at all so we're going to go ahead and change that go ahead and click in we're going to go over to configure go down to user interface and then the server description go ahead and change that as you can remember earlier we changed the address over to Kitchen LED so I'm just gonna name it kitchen LED hit done go ahead and hit save we'll go all the way back and as you can see it is now named kitchen LED well guys that's it you now have wled installed on your board and different ways to connect to it so we're ready for our next project coffee's cold

Channel: Bradley Halbert

Views: 15,969

Keywords: WLED, LED, led, power, gaming, gaming led, led gaming, Mac, windows, logitech

Id: T734euI-UyI

Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2023