Wiring 24v RGB COB Light Strips! with a ESP8266 using WLED

These light strips are amazing! 24v RGB FCOB with WLED. I'll show you an overview of how I put them together.

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0:00 Intro
0:18 What you need
1:05 Install WLED
1:30 Wiring
4:36 Putting it all together

[reedssmarthome]

I compare DIY vs pre-assembled light strips like the Govee M1!

[JohnnyTiscali]

Thank you for this! I figured out why my setup wasn't working. After connecting the controller to the same ground as the strip, everything worked! super happy!

[krishnaasiwal]

Love your tutorial videos a lot !!
You are an inspiration for my lil smart home journey.
Loads of love, Sir !!

[prince]

Thanx for these vids. I always been wanting to automate my cheap light strip round the TV, with the required remote it comes with. Now, I can do it with WLED. 😎

[angryapesplace]

Thanks for the video! This will be my first attempt at DIY light strips! 👍

[GHSTDMNnoOni]

thanks man, since 3 weeks i got started with the esp and govee.
perfect timing👍😃

[TheHookUp]

An important heads up: Those barrel connectors are only rated for 3A, and they will literally melt at currents over that. I don't know why they continue to include them with high current power supplies like that one, I've gone so far as to report those sellers to Amazon for selling dangerous products, but to no avail.

Do yourself a big favor and ditch the barrel connector or set the current limiter in WLED to 3000mA (I think I saw in your screencap you had it at 2000mA, so you should be good).

[michaelthompson]

Can’t wait for the home assistant video!

[drkavnger]

About 5 years late on esp8266 but welcome to another rabbit hole 😂

[DanielMentz_]

I dont know how did I miss this video, but this is great, I need this too

[furmek]

Thumbs up for using Wagos.
One thing though, on the side there is marking showing how much wire you should strip. The wire should all the way in and you should avoid having wire insulation being cough by internal bus bar.

[jemand]

I've been using wled for a while now, it's amazing! :D

[bsem]

Worked great.. Was my first LED project so thanks for posting all the info... learned lots putting this together today. I ordered 3m strip and ESP8266. Of note, these LEDs are not individual control but rather segmented... in my case I got a 3m strip. 720LEDs/m. Each WS2811 IC Chip controls 36 LED (I presume 12 groups of three RGB because there appears to be 12 RGB per section). 20 IC/Meter therefore 60 ICs total... which is also written on package. In the WLED LED Preferences I select length of 60 which is the number if IC Chips. If you choose less it does not light up all the way to end of strip... choose more then it will attempt to light non-existent ones and effects will not operate correctly (notice this in chase effects). Power settings are not applicable since I am using own power supply not powered off ESP. Anyways, regarding the segment of 12 RGB groups of individual lights, (technically 36 LEDs) you will see the long segments light up...which doesn't look that bad since they are covered all in plastic strip, unlike other strips I have seen. I wonder if there is a model like this that has each RGB group addressable.

[zalllon]

I really like this video, especially since I just got a 3-D printer. It’s fun to be a nerd.🤓

[risbill]

Nice! Looks like they also are available in 12v for the led strip so I could just wire it into our RV.

[ofiros]

Great video. This hands-on channel is great.
Do you think you can make a video about advanced troubleshooting misbehaving switches and sensors?

[StrangerJona]

That's a big bloody power pack for those lights.. where are you going to hide that 😂. I like the idea. Maybe an all in one 3D printed case to house it all.

[iMxXxMi]

Making these cheap wled controllers is my favorite thing to do, especially with the tiny d1 mini boards

[KimmoJaskari]

There's a company called Posi Products who make a connector called the Posi-Lock. It's essentially an inline twist-on connector that's super secure and it's inline so it doesn't cause the wires to branch off in all directions like these connectors do. I've used them quite a lot for motorcycle wiring and they've been rock solid, I even used them to wire in my headlights, that's how much I trust them to handle even vibration and the like. Might be an option if people want a nice, straight connector where wire goes in one end, and out the other. Optionally can be covered in shrink wrap to further secure them. And they also make a Posi-tap, which is a non-destructive way to tap into a cable. So if you felt the need to branch off a second pair of wires from existing wires, just connect two Posi-taps and boom, a clean tap that's easy to reverse by just removing the tap.

[damzelfly]

Do you need a level shifter for the data line between ESP and LED?