Advanced WLED install and setup

I installed customisable individually addressable WLED light strips into my kitchen as part of some recent renovations. This video takes you through the entire process from start to finish!

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[Deveyus]

Treasure that time with your Dad. It's one of the best uses of your time right now.

[moonified]

You don't need to use WLED segments to run multiple LED strips using the DigUno. Despite its name, it has two separate data out lines (iirc, LED1 and LED2), so all you need to do is go into WLED > LED Preferences and click the + button under the LED outputs section and add your second strip. Also, might be worth investing in a relay to control the LEDs due to their idle power draw. Once again, the Dig controllers support this directly, or you can do it via a smart plug or switch as well.

[tnoinetwork]

This is one of the most informative videos I have ever seen. This guy is absolutely amazing.

[birddroppings]

Setting segments in the WLED UI is done by creating segments under the segment tab and then entering the desired LEDs for each segment.
If you had 100 LEDs total and want 50 on segment 1 and 50 on segment 2 - you enter 1-50 for segment 1 and 51-100 for segment 2.
Then in HA refresh the particular WLED controller and it should now show entities for segment 1 & 2 that can be controlled separately.

Once you set the segments how you like in WLED, it's a good idea to save it as a preset so you can just reload that in the future if anything goes wrong and save having to configure it all again.

Great video as usual! Learned a lot, had fun watching it and got excited about starting a wled-project in my kids room.

I highly recommend using a motion sensor under your kitchen cabinets. Mine switches on the hue led-strip when motion is detected and restore previous state after 2 minutes with no motion.
The motion sensor can also trigger an automation for my dishwasher. If no one has opened the door to the dishwasher when it has finished the automation will prompt you to open the dishwasher. Prompt is spoken from my Google Nest hub.

[mattwoodford]

Ive connected hassio to my energy providers API so that it can turn things on and off based on the electric rate. The kwh rate changes every 30mins and is sometimes -ve at which point, hassio can start making me money :) I got a similar LED setup planned for a van for under cupboard passive lighting and then 2 strips in the wood slat ceiling. Figured being able to control the lights would be handy as the ceiling can be completely illuminated or i can make a fairly light effect by only having 1 in 10 LED's illuminated. Good to know you added power both sides if the strip, im doing 5m strips @ 120/M so sounds like it would help. I like the silent notification idea and ill ise that for battery gas water etc monitoring. Too geeky? Or not geeky enough 😜

[alingabrielafloarei]

Nice video !!! I love WLED. The completion is booked for tomorrow for my new build. Guess what I am going to do ahahahah. Smart home !!!! I did work with KNX before but the way you have it set up is very cost effective and you don’t need to rewire the house

[schrodingersmechanic]

Been wanting to do this for a while both inside and outside but there's so much hardware its easy to get lost. My goal outside is to run strips under the eaves and do away with my abnoxiously bright flood lights, converting them to camera motion activated lights instead. It would certainly make my neighbors happier without my house being lit up like a compound at night. I also like what you did inside but I think a higher voltage setup will prove easier for installation. Great vid, your setup looks amazing!

[klaernie]

I found copper adhesive tape to be a real godsend. It glues on easily, and you can solder to it. This was i dod quite a lot of awkward signal routing and power injection without barely anything visible

[werra]

This looks amazing! I have the same WLED setup and had an amazing idea for it.
With some messing around in HA and Nodered I made a cooking timer for things like pasta or something in the oven. It uses the percent effect in WLED to display the remaining time as a status bar on the leds. Have a few presets (6, 8, 10, 15 minutes) linked to a zigbee remote and google assistant and can set a custom time in the HA app.

[markjhorsley]

Superb video - have just completed a similar install in my own kitchen

[CyberpunkV]

Hi, what a lovely video. Your voice is very soothing. Very clear and professional. Thankyou. 🙏

[sygad]

have to say, that is a really nice kitchen

[SliphRahl]

The thing you were saying at the end where you change lights based on to much/to little power is great, I've had this running for years. Also works wonders to get my wife to use power "correctly".

[GregGranito]

Great video and loved the message at 15:17. Thank You!

[pbarnfield]

Brilliant video as I'm just switching all my WiFi stuff to Zigbee with a Pi4 on HA. Amazing what can be done! Also just refitted kitchen and also have bright white splash backs, so just ordered all my LED kit.... then boom this video appears 2 days later!! Great to see what you've done and how to set conditions etc to make better use of them.

Can you pop a link to the HA wall controller you show in the video. Looks great that does and ideal for setting up with a basic set of commands for say lighting, power, blinds etc.

[JasGawera]

Nice one,
I did under cupboard in white only dumb strip (on a smart switch), but I did do WLED strip on the plinth below the lower cupboards. You get a nice effect on the gloss white tiles. (also really shows up the dirt - don't get white tiles in your kitchen)
I have the same automations for doorbell motion, and doorbell button press via HA, as you say, the notification is a great non-intrusive way to let you know what is going on.
I have a few other LED strips around the house, they all do the same notification so you can tell what is going on wherever you are.
Solar power notifications would be great, I'll wait for your video on that :)
One other one I've set up is for putting the recycling bins out.
I have a HA calendar with the correct colour recycling bin each week (ours alternate between red and blue each week)
HA tells Alexa to announce which colour recycling bin is going out this week on the evening before they are due, and I get HA to flash the LEDs the corresponding colour too.
I've also got one that flashes them blue if a leak is detected under the bath, though since I fitted the zigbee water leak sensor there, there have been no leaks :)

[imdbtruth]

Thanks for sharing. Looks great! You should be proud!

[HowardPrice]

Awesome video! I’ve just started using WLED and would love to implement an alert system, similar to the one you show so that I know when someone is at my front door. I’ve been playing around with scenes in Home Assistant to try to achieve this but I’m not getting anywhere. Can you share the approach you took to do this? Might even be a great subject for another video. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this great channel!

[samiraslan]

Cool video, really love this channel and you have cool reference of the Hookup and Quindor, if you want to make WLED to respond to you power consumption get Shelly EM 120A and hook it to your main cable, it should be easy and set an automation if exceed show this effect and if it's less show that.

About segments check Quin or Dr Zzs video, it should be easy for you since you are already an expert.

P.S: one quick note, maybe consider using fork style crimps and way thicker cable from the PSU to your boards.

Good job!