WLED Tutorial - The ultimate DIY RGB Controller?

hey guys after a lot of server stuff let's talk about some LED stuff again like these recently dr. Zee's streamed about a new open-source project that's been gaining popularity and that's w LED w LED is software for the esp8266 or SP 32 and it's used to control addressable leds it has an easy app for your phone and can do all sorts of effects easily that sounds like the perfect match for my queen LED dig Uno so let's take a look at that and I'll try and make this into little tutorial on how to install w LED in combination with the queen LED dig [Music] well as you can see around me I've already been tinkering with all of this for a little bit and has been working quite well for the people unfamiliar with the queen LED dig you know it's um LED controller board I designed that you can build yourself our show some close-up footage you can use an esp8266 like this we've masti 1 mini or an ESP 32 which comes in the same form factor and you can put it on top of the board and it provides some nice features to run addressable LEDs above what may be your breadboard circuit would do some of its main features are that it has an onboard fuse combined with reverse polarity input and output protection so if you make a wiring mistake or a short-circuit situation happens over time your house won't burn down but instead diffusal just pop next to that the board is also suitable for the esp8266 and ESP 32 in the we mas v1 mini form factor as I mentioned but it's also suitable for 5 volt and 12 volt LED strip so you can use the newer ws 28:15 for instance it also has an onboard very fast level shifter so everything from a ws2812 B or SK 60a 12 strip to an AP 102 step gets the right data signal voltage which can matter in larger projects or if log or wires on top of that it has easy screw terminals to attach your wires allowing up to 15 amps through the board making wiring up everything have been easier it also has some beefy capacitors keeping power nice and stable and preventing the inrush current of death towards your LEDs then it also has some broken out GPIO pins but basically the features are a bit too much to really go into here I have a dedicated video about that and I have some dedicated articles on Quinn LED info there you'll find all the information as I mentioned including board component lists soldiering tutorials and also information about LED strip what to buy and stuff like that okay enough about that I've prepared some ports and let's go through the installation of W LED together to get started let's go to the W LED github page download the latest release of W LED the releases are precompiled versions where you don't have to have any knowledge of Arduino and stuff like that then we're also going to need a tool to flash our little esp8266 or 32 board with we're going to use a little tool called ESP hold flasher again there's a get up page with release on it and we just download the right version for our operating system no worries I'll have all of this linked in the description below and in the written part that goes with this video on clean led info okay now we connect our esp8266 based we must D 1 mini to use B and proceeded to open the ESP home flasher there we select the correct comport and then the W LED bin file we just downloaded then it should be as simple as pushing the flash button and waiting a little bit while it's flashing we can already prepare the next part and that is on a phone in my case that's an Android phone so I open up the Play Store and I look for an app called conveniently W LED once it's done flashing and installing the software to your phone disconnect the d1 mini from your computer's USB port and insert it into the Quin LED board you can already have some LEDs connected to it if you want in my case I have the Queen LED dig you know connected to one meter of SK 60a 12 RGB W LED strip with 144 LEDs this is 5 volt LED strip so I've set the voltage jumper to 5 volt I've connected to 5 volt power supply and I've set the GPIO jumper to 2 once it powers up if everything is connected correctly it should show some LEDs of the LED strip in orange unless you have an RGB W LED strip like I have then you'll see all kinds of funky colors but we'll correct that later now take your phone and open your Wi-Fi settings and you should see a w LED access point listed connect to it and it should show a pop-up to ask for sign-in information there we fill in our Wi-Fi name and password and reboot the module your phone should now automatically connect back to your own Wi-Fi network so let's open up the W led app there you should be able to hit the Add button and then use the scan functionality to find a new controller if it doesn't find it you can always check your router to see which IP the module got and add it manually once that's complete you should see the W LED controller into overview let's open it and first configure the amount of LEDs we have and the amount of power available in my case that's 144 LEDs and I set power to the maximum because I have a very beefy power supply connected then I need to tell W LED that I have our DV W LEDs which will add an additional white channel and also make sure that all the colors function correctly on the strip okay and well for a basic install you're done you now have an LED strip you can control using an app on your phone but let's take a closer look at some of the effects and settings you can do and show you some examples for instance let's change the effect to their color waves effect and then we can also change the speed of the effect or the intensity which changes how it looks [Music] then we can also change the color or color palette that the effect uses scroll down or we can choose a preset palette of colors the effect we use let's change it to red and blue that's looking nice the last thing I wanted to show is that you can edit presets which will then be saved to the module and you can recall at any later time [Music] [Music] now these are only a few of the functions W led can do it has some great features such as being able to sync multiple controllers or allowing control using MQTT and thus through a home assistant and node-red but that is too much to go into during this video maybe i'll cover some of those features in the future because it's also supposed to have e 1.31 support and boatloads of other stuff that can do as mentioned i've been testing w LED with my current LED boards and it's been working perfectly there is however a slight caveat if you wish to use the ESP 30 to the pre compiled version of w LED uses the same GPA open as on 80 to 66 and that's DPO - but that doesn't really work on the ESP 32 boards since the onboard LED is connected to DPO - i've made a very quick change in a code and then made a precompiled binary where I changed the pin to GPO 16 which is equivalent to the 2 position of the jumper on the Qin LED big you know I'll have a link to this brief compiled binary somewhere in the description and on the Queen LED dot info page but that will quickly become an old version and I've talked to err cookie and he's going to look into being able to change the pin you wish to use for the ESP 32 easier than having to change it in the code and doing the manual recompile so if you've been looking for a simple addressable LED solution for your project or home W LED is excellent if you then want to do some form of permanently install by highly upgrading from a breadboard based solution to something like Nightwing led dick uno model next to being easier to use it's also a lot safer as mentioned everything about these boards and how to build it yourself can be found on Queen led Don info and will of course be linked in the description below if you have any questions or comments well leave them in the comments or if you like these kinds of couture bills and videos and stuff about LEDs and wiring them up maybe subscribe to my channel and if you want to have a little bit more in-depth discussion I also have a discourse River consider joining their so I'm Quinn Durr from intermittent technology I am hoping to see you guys back in the next video and see you then [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 21 2019