12v WS2815 with WLED / ESP32 - Setup, Power, Control
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Thanks for watching buddy! Yeah I love those as well! Android is also another one of my favorites!
This is the video that has led me down a new hobby path. Thank you.
Chris, I can't express how much I appreciate these videos. I've learned so much from you since following your channel. Thanks again!
Thanks as always buddy! Appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment! I'm glad you are enjoying the videos :)
Man thanks for the demonstration I have been chasing around on how to do it with the ESP32 board, Thank you so much🙏🙏
You are very welcome and thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment!
Sorry why is the blue backup data get plugged to ground? Otherwise I’ve just plugged green and blue data wires together for the first data point.
Thanks so much for watching! I honestly never tried it that way so it very well could work just as well! I didn't know what to do with the blue wire so I plugged it into the gnd and everything seemed to work perfect so I just ran with it lol.
Hang on... how are you powering a 5 meter strip of 60 LED/meter WS2815 lights with a 12v 5A power supply? The BTF websites specs say that each led draws 0.3 watts of power and on a 5 meter strip thats 300 x 0.3 = 90 watts. Am I missing something? Are those actually 30 LED/meter? I'm trying to connect four of these together in parellel and power them accordingly but now I'm worried my wattage is way to the high with the power supply I have in mind.
Did you figure your issue out?
I have similar questions about the power supply.
Haven't decided what to go with yet, 5V or 12V LEDs, but whatever the case may be what gauge wire do we use?
Is it based off of the volts, amps or watts?
@@coreyevans9543 I soldered on the 18 gauge wires he recommended. If you're just running 1 or two strips then it's not incredibly necessary. I think if you're going for a longer run of multiple strips, I would recommend upgrading the gauge to 18 for less resistance throughout the strip and using a higher voltage strip like the 12 volt over the 5 volt.
As a word of advice, try to find tutorials that mimick your own project and goals with that project as much as possible so you make the least mistakes.
@Octoooo
I've been doing some calculations and it seems that the lower 5V set-up is more expensive than the 24V set-up.
I need about 13 metres of LEDs, which is around 300 watts. The thing I found that costs more are 5V LEDs and the wire to handle the amps.
Did you do price setup comparisons?
Good video, but you don’t say is how inefficient the ws2815 LEDs are, the high power consumption that they take and that they are quite expensive. The ws2811 on the bright 96LED/m variant is much more efficient and as good if not better than the ws2815 to voltage drop as it requires less amps.
Thanks so much for watching and the great information! I have yet to try our the ws2811 but sounds like you would for sure recommend those over these. That's good to know! Any chance you know if you can get ws2811 led strips that are individually addressable or are they usually controlled in groups of 3 leds?
Hi! I hope you can help me...
I listened a lot of things abouts de led strip, and one f the is: is necessary use a "Logic Level Shifter".
it's true?? what you (or anyone else) can say about it?
thank you!!
and your videos are amazing!
Wouldn't it be nice if you made Esp32 energy with a phone charger adapter instead of a 12V to 5V step down regulator?
Thanks as always for watching! You certainly could do that!
Dying to see you try out some of the COB dream color... these are 24V... wild for no voltage drop, but crazy density: BTF-LIGHTING FCOB WS2811
I always love your videos. I think we’d all love to see a walk through of your setup and all the areas you’ve done. Thanks for great content!
Thanks so much as always! I'll have to put that on my to do list at some point! I'm still wanting to make a nice gaming room so maybe once I have that complete I'll get to it!!
I will be glad if you can reply urgently. I bought WS2815 led strip. I wanted to test it with the 12volt output (12.5A) transformer I have. I connected the red and white ends of the strip led to the plus and minus outputs of the transformer, but it did not light up. I will get the ESP 32 i microprocessor later. My goal is to pre-test. how do i do this.
Did I make a wrong connection? Or are the led strips faulty?
Thanks for watching and great question! So my understanding is that these along with most addressable lights need the data to be connected before they do anything. Led strips that are the basic ones that dont really have data going into it will fire up with power and nothing else but these (at least in my experience) need the data connected as well. Without the data, the lights don't know what to do when plugged in and just stay off. I hope that makes sense!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thank you for your answer. In this case, it will be necessary to quickly buy a control module.
You did exactly the application/operation I had in mind. Is it okay if we power the ESP 32 module from an external source? For example, with a mobile phone charger with a 5 volt output.
Because it will be an expense to buy an adapter that reduces 12V to 5V.
For this reason, I want to use the existing adapter I have.
Yes this is possible. I even used the USB 3.0 from my PC and mobile phone charger without any issue.
Just like Hyper mentioned, it is for sure possible. You can power the esp device via the usb micro on the board. I believe you would still need the gnd pin connected to the gnd of the led strip to work but the voltage pin on the esp board would not need to be used at all. Hope that makes sense!
Thanks again for your help! Very much appreciated!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Yes you will have to try
@@ChrisMaherDIY esp32 how pin?
Are you running the strip directly off the ESP32 data line - that's 3.3V... doesn't the WS2815 need 5V or is it 3.3V tolerant ?
I have a few questions.
1) When we use a mobile phone adapter instead of the voltage reducer that converts 12 volts to 5 volts in the video, would it be sufficient to supply 5 volts from the mini USB input of the ESP module?
2) When we use a telephone adapter, is there a need to apply voltage to other points of the module?
3) How many pins of ESP32 did you connect the green wire to?
Thanks so much for watching! So I have successfully powered the esp device using an old phone charger which would eliminate the need for the converter. You could then just power the led strip directly with the 12v power. You would still need to connect the gnd to the gnd of the 12v power supply though. I just connected the green data wire to 1 pin of the esp32 module. I believe it was the d4 or d2 pin.
@@ChrisMaherDIY hi, why would you still need to connect the gnd from the esp to the gnd on thw 12v power supply? would this still be the same for the 8266 board?
@@one2three123 thanks for watching and great question! Yes, and from esp32 or 8266 would get connected to gnd of the 12v supply.
@@ChrisMaherDIY I wanted to piggy back on this question.. I’m binge watching your videos to learn how to put led lights in my van (I’m 61 ands just ordered all the soldering supplies! Going to learn something new!).. do I understand correctly that I can just hook these to my 12v fuse box that is powered by my dc power station ?? Thank you so much for your expertise!
@@one2three123a salida de datos que genera el esp32 está referida al gnd del mismo módulo , la entrada de datos de la tira led esta referida al gnd de la misma tira, y ambas gnd deben estar unidas para que la señal ingrese.
Cuando pones una bateria a una linterna no solamente se conecta el polo positivo y la lámpara enciende ,o si? 😉
how did that 30 amp supply work>?>?>
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Worked great! Its probably what I would use for projects using 2 strips!
Hi Chris, I have watched all your videos on youtube. I have learned a lot and thank you for that!
Have you tried using WLED and ESP32 in old 12v RGB analog led strips? I'm not sure if it's even possible, but I'd be really happy if you could make such a tutorial. All the best for you!
Best regards, Tommi
Thanks so much for watching and you are very welcome! I have not tried doing something like that and i'm honestly not even sure if it would work. I think WLED is more for the digital type led strips but I could be wrong. Maybe if someone else is reading and they know for sure they could chime in since I am curious on this myself!
I'm curious how you managed that without a level shifter? I have almost the same setup (ESP32 and 5m of BFT WS2811) and things are going crazy with random color changes or flickering/brightness changes.
Please someone help!!!!???
Did you use any additiona power injection on the two 5 meter or you powered booth from one side?
On this video I just was powering the entire 2 strips with no power injection. There was a little noticeable voltage drop when I had everything at full brightness but nothing was noticeable during all the animation. Thanks for watching!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you Chris, keep up the good work!
Thanks! maybe good to know. you need that 12v > 5v converter to work. power the esp32 with an external 5v power supply won't work. you need a common ground i think.
Great video, Chris! I have a question regarding your 12V/5A = 60W power supply recommendation.
According to the specifications, a 5M WS2815 LED Strip will take 90W to power (probably at full white with no degradation).
If we consider 20% higher (90W *1.2), it will be 108W.
Does this theoretically mean we should be using a minimum of a 120W power supply? That is twice as much as what you're recommending.
Am I understanding this correctly?
I just installed exactly 5m of this WS2815 strip (144 LED/m) around my walk in shower. Yes, it's a rather big shower.
Using WLED to limit power to 2.5amps, this is more than adequate for powering 5 meters. Remember, this is with me using 144led/m strips.
Any higher than 4 amps and it becomes offensively bright on all colors, especially white.
You dont NEED a 12v10a power supply, but it won't necessarily hurt anything as long as you don't let it try to pump 10amps all the time.
Great content as always! Question: is there a good way to waterproof the channels as opposed to buying the IP65 variants? Cheers!
I eneded up using the WS2815s 60LEDs/m for my permenant christmas lights and they are great. You gotta pull the trigger since you are the king of RGB lights
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! That's awesome! What are you using to control the lights?! Lol I will!!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Dig-Quad and WLED App on my phone. I had about 90 feet of roofline that I covered and used 3 data lines.
Great tutorial!
Why do you wire the backup data line to ground? Wouldn't it be better to wire it parallel to the main data line? What are the pro/contra for either method? Sry for the noob question.
Appreciate your channel, thank you!
Hi, I'm also interested in this... didn't understand why it is wired to the ground. Thanks for your videos @ChrisMaherDIY !
Great video, just one thing ive always been wondering about, is there any way I can hook these LED lights up to be powered by a PC powersupply, or motherboard (using the 4pin headers), and using the controller by cutting the wires on the 4pin from there? Just a thought, Idk too much about circuits anyway.
Thanks for watching! Great question! So I have not tried doing this so i'm not 100% sure but I dont see why it wouldn't work as long as the voltage is equal to what the lights need. Maybe someone else thats reading through comments might know for sure and can chime in!
@@ChrisMaherDIY I tried it out by hooking it up to my PC power supply instead through a SATA connector, works perfectly and no need for power injections at all for a 5m strip, this video helped alot with it, thanks.
Great video as always! I was wondering if i can do remote on/off through wled with this wiring setup? I noticed that the power is directly connected to the strip while the esp32 only controls the data channel.
Thanks as always buddy! That's a great question and I'm not sure. I might have to play around with things to see if that is possible or not. Maybe someone else on here might know for sure and can chime in?! Thanks again!
Was this just one ws2815 or two?
If I understand everything right - for WS2815 model is not real to connect controller with remote control, only WIFI or Bluetooth?
Thanks so much for watching! You can connect the WS2815 strips to a wide variety of controllers. But my understanding is you do need a controller because if you just provide power to these lights, there is nothing then telling the lights what to do.
Why u always cutting the first led and soldering again ways the big deal?/
Thanks so much for watching and great question! So there really isn't anything wrong with using the connectors that the strip comes with but at least for me, since i'm always making different things with these lights, more times than not i'm using a leftover strip and its just been easier to solder on 3 wires to the beginning vs trying to solder another connector piece with another set of injection wires to the beginning. Now I also don't have to waste that first led and I could take my time to remove the pre made wires If I wanted to but for the sake of time, I just usually cut if off. Also for many of my projects, I need longer wires than the short ones they come with and i'm for the most part always using 18awg wires which are much thicker than the ones that come with it which will help with voltage drop when the power needs to be placed farther away from the beginning of the strip. Lol sorry for the long reply but I hope that makes a little sense!
When can we get that power source comparison video. I am about to take on a project and want to know what source to use to not be overkill but not be to small. Over all I will be doing two 5m strips for under and above cabinet lighting.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Man, I hope to get to it soon but I've been swamped with my normal day job and don't know when that will be. But when trying to figure out what to use, I generally just order a couple different options from amazon, test things out, and return the ones I don't end up needing. Not exactly a scientific approach but its worked well for me!
Thanks for video. Could you please add subtitles?
Thanks so much for watching! I went to the subtitles and it says its already turned on for English. Is there a different language you would like it in? I'm not 100% sure how all that works but I can certainly look into it!
@@ChrisMaherDIY yes i see it now. I guess it wasn't there yesterday or I may have mixed it up with another video. Thank you. By the way, your voice is very nice.
Hello, I connected the ws2815 12v tape (4 meters), powered by an external 12v 10A and 120W source. ESP32 board powered by 5v via the usb connector, green wire on D2 and blue wire on GND of the 12V source. The tape only turns on at first for less than a meter and the colors are random and I can't control it via Wled, any solution? Thanks.
Is the gnd on the esp board connected to the gnd of the 12v power supply and led strip? Try that first! Also make sure the gpio in WLED under led preferences is set to 2 if your using the d2 pin.
I only connected the green wire to the esp board, pin 2 is selected on the wled as you said.@@ChrisMaherDIY
It worked, I'm very happy... your tip of connecting the gnd of the esp board to the 12v source worked. Thank you very much.@@ChrisMaherDIY
Hi, is there a reason behind why you are using such a big size 12v 5a power, compared to the smaller size 12v 5a power supplies on aliexpress? Or does the bigger size affect the brightness of your strip?
Thanks so much for watching and i'm glad you liked the video!
@@ChrisMaherDIY but why used a bigger size when they have the same specs?
Followed this, lights don’t work. Cant figure it out. They will not turn on when configured this way.
Hey Chris, loving your videos! Was keen to use WLED with some 12v Neon 5m ropes. Theyre not addressable but was after your opinion here. Would that work as a simple on /off / dim switch with the WLED?
Would love to find a diagram or detailed tutorial of how to do a long run with these. I’m doing trim of a 50’ rectangular room.
I’m going to use this set up for outside near a spa that has 2 stages of stairs I want to wrap both outside edges under the stair stages are these leds for outdoor I would really like to get your input
Hi.
Me again.
Glad you done this...
Now then..
For power did you connect second strip directly onto the end of first.
So to say the whole lot powered from one end and second strip in series?
Secondly. When I try to power my esp32 via the 5v and the pin next to it it does not power on.. No onchip led activity.
So the o ly way is with the mini usb cable. Have to chop into wire to hot wire off black and red for strip power source. Then splice earth onto esp and strip so to have common earth .
Be a lot easier if I could power esp from a voltage reduction board and use it to replace generic controller thats running 2811 leds
How to stop flickering over full brightness.
This is the esp32 that I have..
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Hey, I had the same problem (with the same ESP32) as you but with an WS2812 ECO and fixed it in the end. I dont remember how I fixed it, but this is how I wired it: You have 2 lose wire red&white, these connect directly to power supply. The other one with 3 wire: red, white & green are directly connected to ESP32. Red to 5V, White to GND (between G13 & G12) and Green to G4.
When it do flickering, it means that the GND isn't connected correctly.
@@Hrupix bless for that reply. Very clear. What's the eco difference in the real world.
I've got 6 of those esp32. I think I killed one trying to power it up from the 5v pin on the end and the pin next to it as I thought I saw on his video. Ain't no light blinked on the chip since lol. So gave that esp a vikings burial.
But your a trooper for that info.
Want to power it from a buck converter down to 5v? Also if using say a 12v power supply at let's say 8amp and I bucked it down to 5v would the amp change?
Also a secondary question to your reply.
That mean power can be sent from the end of strip and the other end supply power to our esp at start?
@@Can_I_Have_A_Go Yes, the amps will increase. You need to find what the efficiency is of the buck step converter. Power out = power in * efficiency.
So output in your case would be: 12(volts) * 8(amps) * .93(efficiency) = 89.28 watts = 5(volts) * 17.856(amps)
Awesome Advice and thanks for jumping in and helping. Love it!!
i dont have a backup data wire, so i soldered one in and it does not work. noticed the 12v ones i have are actualy ws2811, how does it differ?
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Everything should be the same but you just wont have the steps that I did here with the backup data. I also think with the ws2811 the leds are controllable in groups of 3. So when you input the number of leds, if your strip lets say has a total of 300 leds, you would only put 100 in the led box in WLED if that makes sense.
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Everything should be the same but you just wont have the steps that I did here with the backup data. I also think with the ws2811 the leds are controllable in groups of 3. So when you input the number of leds, if your strip lets say has a total of 300 leds, you would only put 100 in the led box in WLED if that makes sense.
Hi there, super clear video. One questoon I have still is the following: I have exactly the same BTF ws2815 strip. I can't use WLED drivers unfortunately for my project (making a wordlclock) but i am familiar programming in arduino language myself. This leaves me with the following: my ESP32 MH-ET-LIVE board has - i think - 3.33V data out at IO33 (but i think at all data outputs to be honest) even though i drive it with step down 5V like you do.
I have read that the 3.3V data signal would not be enough for the WS2815 strip to take it in, and that i need another shift level convertor to bring the data to 5V again. I dont see you use it, so I wonder if it is even needed?
Regards from Holland
Hi there, 3.3v is ok for but for some cases you can have some problems. I recommend a cheap logic level shifter
I finally got this working thank you so much for a great video! I had so much pain as ESP32 boards come in different varieties, but i worked out that simply changing the GPIO pin within WLED done the trick! Just an additional question but when you are displaying what appears to be two sets of LED strips, are these connected to the same controller and in series? Now i have this first stage working with 2 LED strips in parallel, my next stage is to extend to 30m around garden for new year light show! Trying to work out if i'm best having separate controllers or just connect the full 30m with any additional voltage...Not sure if anyone can advise on how i progress from here?
thanks! how many 12 volt individually addressable leds can i daisy chain and power using esp32?
That's a good question that nobody knows. I want to daisy chain 15 meters and I'm wondering the same thing. What length do you want? And have you managed to find anymore information?
Chris, thanks for the great videos. It has really helped me understand the differences between all the available LED light options. I'm going to have a go at putting together a project for a night club using 130 meters of WS2815 on four separate circuits. I'm curious if you've done any side by side comparisons of the available controller units from BTF Lighting. I really like the results you're getting with WLED with the ESP32 project boards, but by the time I make these commercially usable and put them in project boxes, it's going to be more trouble than buying the off the shelf controller complete with their remote controls.
Thanks so much for watching and wow what an epic project you are taking on! I really wish I had more experience with larger installs and other controllers. My guess is for something that big you would want to go with something else. Here is some information on what WLED recomends from an led perspective: kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/#:~:text=For%20good%20performance%2C%20you%20can,a%20total%20of%204000%20LEDs.
Hopefully at some point down the road I will be more knowledgeable and can help out better with questions like this. But I would love to know what you end up going with if you have time to share down the road!
What did you decide to use for your project?
perfect. this works with alexa?
Thanks so much for watching! Yup! WLED is compatible with Alexa. I don't think it is with google home though.
Good afternoon, congratulations for your videos, they are fabulous.
I have a doubt and if you can clarify I would be grateful.
I need to put WRGB leds in a case letter (channel letters). I was thinking of using the ESP32.
Once configured and programmed, the ESP32 can work Offline to make a certain sequence of colors and effects, it turns on (ON with a switch ) and the ESP32 starts working and carrying out the predefined routine itself. Or is there another better controller for this situation. Thanks
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment! That is a great question! I honestly am not sure on that. I have not come across that yet in my projects but I for sure can see where that would be nice to have in some situations. I would maybe check out DrZZZ channel to see if he has any information on this. Maybe if someone else is reading through the comments and knows for sure they can chime in because I'm curios myself on this! Thanks!
hey Chris, Can you please help me out. I'm using(BTF-LIGHTING AC100-240V to DC24V10A Max240W Suit DC24V1A~DC24V10A Switching Power Supply + BTF-LIGHTING FCOB WS2811 RGB IC Chip Flexible High Density Uniform Light Chasing Color LED Strip DC24V + EPS 32) I followed all the steps from your videos but when connecting LED strip to power supply the LED wasn't turning on. I used the multi meter to make sure i have 24V and checked the other end of LED and it seems it has 24V no light appears. I also damaged 2 EPS 32 by connecting straight to the power supply not knowing that it only work with 5v.Thanks
damn it I think I messed up my boards they never powered the leds but the board is still lit and wifi connected IDK
Hey thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I would first double check under led preferences. Scroll down and check what number is in the gpio box. This number should be whatever the pin was that you used for data. I know I used the d2 pin so i have 2 in that box. I think 2 was the default number in there but a couple recent flashes I think it was like 16 so I had to change it to 2. Hope that makes sense and hopefully that might be the issue!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thanks i have no idea will look into it i know i used data2 but will check the program I did start out using 12 V to power it so may have fried two of them my third one I am waiting for that step down transformer you used and will wire it like you did
@@ChrisMaherDIY That is it the GPIO needed to be 2 thanks alot I've been trying to get this for awhile soon as i changed that there was a small blue led blinking on the board
Plz tell me what I'm missing here regarding your 12v 5a power supply.
You used 2 full 5m strips which appeared to be 60 leds/m.
LEDs are 0.3w each so 60 LEDs x 10m = 180W / 12V = 15amps
General rule of thumb is to add 20% to the power supply so how are you running those lights (which should be using an 18amp power supply) on a 5a?
Thanks so much for watching! That's a great question! I don't have the technical knowledge of a lot of people out there yet but my understanding is that led strips recommend power based on max performance. I really have never had the need to run things at full brightness/full white and when running things at lets say 50%, its still very bright and hard to look at. Also, running animations and any other color than white will use far less than the max of what the lights are capable of. I could be way off on my assumptions but I have always been more of a lets plug things in and see what happens type of guy when it comes to playing around with LEDs.
Hi, how do i connect the 4 pins from the LED the NodeMCU with the ESP8266. If there are three its just Vin, Gnd and D4. Planning to use the microUSB to power the device. Not sure how to connect if there are 4 connections!?
Thanks for watching ang great question! If the leds are 12v it should be pretty much the same as the video but on the esp8266 I would connect the data to the D4 pin but if your using a micro usb to power the device, then you would not need to do anything with the Vin pin on the esp8266 either.
Huge psu lol
Thanks for watching! For sure overkill but the price is hardly any more for the bigger one so might as well in case you do larger projects down the road.
Help.... I can't find this info anywhere yet, still looking though. First off, @ChrisMaherDIY thank you SO MUCH for all of your tutorials. After much debate and a few returns of Govee lights I took the plunge into ESO, wled, and 2816b lights to do it right!❤ However I still have a few non addressable LED strips already in my space which I want to leave for now, Yet control those with an esp 32 board and wled as well.... Can this be done? Can I control a dumb non addressable 12v LED strip with WLED and an esp32 board? If so, is there a walkthrough somewhere?? Thanks for anyone who can help.
Is the wire gauge based upon the voltage, amps, or wattage?
I'm not quite sure how this works yet.
basically I have about 13 metres of LEDs that I need to power.
I'll use power injection at multiple places, but the overall requirement is 300 watts at 5V, which is 60 amps.
Is the wire gauge based on amps, watts or volts?
great video, really makes me want to do this myself. I'm wondering though, is there a zwave device i could use instead of the wifi esp? I have so many wifi devices that anywhere I can use zwave i'm trying to do so as to not congest the wifi
Thanks so much for watching! I've never used that device before but I just looked it up and I think it should work! Yeah having 5 different things to control around the house just means you probably will hardly use any of them. Wish I could be of more help but since i've never used it I'm not entirely sure how the setup might be. Might have to do some googling to find out for sure what strips you can hook up!
Are there any 12v RGBW led strips that work with WLED? All the ones with dedicated W seem to be 5v and I would prefer to avoid injections along at the runs. Anyone?
Quick question. Did you use power injection on the other end? Or is the full 10m run just one power source with unnoticable diminish to brightness? I was considering getting a nice big 12 v 15A 180W PSU for my project using 15m of ws2811 but now I am having second thoughts.... Additionally, I am curious to know of it is possible to connect the data wire (green)to 2 led strips and have the same data sent through them I was thinking 5m and 10m( with power injection ) since the big power supply has 3 pairs of +v -v I can use. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching and great questions! I did not use power injection on this setup. Just had the power going in at the beging of the first led strip and that's all. If I remember correctly, at 100% brightness and white, I did notice a drop off in color but on every animation or just regular color, it looked great. I also think If I had the brightness set to about 70% and white, I did not notice any drop off in color at that point. And yes you can certainly run the data wire to 2 strips and have them do the same thing. This is called running them in parallels. You can simply split the data line coming from the controller (I love using wago connectors to split the data) and then run the data to whatever strips you have and it should work great!
Thanks Chris! Has anyone used the 24v BTF512AC strip from BTF Lighting? I'm trying to get it to work with WLED but can't see to find any information. They are 5 pin.
Thanks so much for watching! That's a great question! I have yet to try those so I would only be guessing. I'll put that on my list of projects/videos to make and hopefully I can get around to it sooner rather than later. Let me know if you do figure it out as I would be curious myself!
I am confused how supplying 5v power allows this to work. I thought the esp's output voltage was 3.3v no matter what was the input. I currently am using a 12v supply and it is not working with my WS221812B though
I'm confused with the pricing of these LED on the Amazon link you provided. It indicates 1 meter 144 LEDs for $39 and 5 meter 150 LEDs for $65. So they're charging an extra $26 for an extra 6 LEDs stretched out over 5 metres?
Thanks for watching! So the 1 meter has a total of 144 LEDs on it. The 5 meters has a total of 150 LEDs on the strip spread out over those 5 meteres which equals out to be 30 LEDs per meter compared to the 144 that the other one has. Hope that helps!
I'm making a Halloween prop that is an inter dimensional portal and the inner ring I want to run LED strips with a lighting effect like its spinning up, I see lots of tutorials on how to do all this in WLED and what not, but what I'm missing is how to trigger a light show using my various prop controllers. they all just send 5/12/24v signals to turn channels on or off, but I also have DMX options in some and i'm learning how to use their various software with DMX LED decoders. Basically I don't want to trigger the shows from a phone or a button, I wanted it to be automated in a line of animations that are all being triggered by these prop controllers. have any ideas?
Hey Chris! I've been watching your videos for a while, but became a subscriber just recently. I was wondering if you could help me with my room's re-design? I wanted to have individually controllable LEDs throughout the perimeter of the room, which measures about 67 feet. What would your suggestion be for Power supply (Single or multiple), number of points of power injection, can 4-5 sequentially connected strips of WS2812B be controlled by just 1 ESP32 board, or would a 12v LED strip setup be better. Appreciate the advice. Cheers!
Thanks again buddy! In case you didn't see my reply on your comment on the other video: Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Sounds like an epic project! I have yet to do an install that large so I'm not 100% sure what would be best but here is what I would probably start out with and see how it looks. Depending on the setup of the room I would probably do 2 power supplies (hopefully keep the length of injection wires down a little bit) If you are wanting to have them running on white and full brightness, you would probably need a power injection every 5 meters. If you don't necessarily need them at full brightness and full white, you could probably do just fine with an injection every 10 meters. If you use sk6812 leds, they have a separate white channel and I think on those you could do a power injection at every 10m and be good
You could probably get away with using just 1 esp32 device but here are some more of the recommended lengths from the WLED info page: kno.wled.ge/features/multi-strip/
So much of what I do is not technical and just more trial and error. I generally will just test everything out on the floor with little to no power injection, see how it looks and then go from there until I'm happy with how it looks!
What is the power consumption for that setup ??
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! That's a good question! I didn't' do any tests but my guess would be a little more than 30 amps would be required for full brightness!
In description on Amazon it says that 5m strip uses 90 watts (full brightness of course)
@@RetroWaveArcades That's what I can't understand, and 2x90W with added 20%, a 12v 18a power supply should be used, but they appear to fire fine in the video and he's using a 5a.
I’m following this tutorial pretty closely along with the how to solder video , and installing wled video but my esp32 board pin layout looks a little different. I don’t see a pin named d4 and the ground pin is in a different spot. Is there a different pin to use ? Is it just the output gpio4? Thanks !
Hey Chris! I noticed the wled program has the led voltage set at 5v default. Do I need to change this if I'm using this same 12v strip?
Hello Chris, can you please make a video on the horse running or water running effect led that is tiktok popular nowerdays. Cheers lad
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I'll have to look it up to see if I can replicate it!
Does this mean that if the Wifi goes out the lights do too? Or can these strips be controlled via a physical point and shoot controller?
Somebody good lord please help me. It is 4AM & I should have been sleeping 3 hours ago.
I have tons of used power supplies ive removed from old desktop and all in one computers, the output 3v 5v and 12v depending on what wires you connect to, could i use one of them to run both the lights and the board?
that's a great question! I've never tried but I don't see why it wouldn't work! Maybe someone reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in.
would using a separate 5v3a power supply to power the esp32 rather than using a step down converter work the same as a cheaper option if i’m on a budget?
Yup that should work just fine! Thanks for watching and great question!
@@ChrisMaherDIY perfect, thank you for the response and making this content! it’s really helping me learn. one more question if you don’t mind, im planning on using these lights for under glow on my bed frame. i’m debating between a 5m 60 LED/m strip of ws2812b or the same strip of ws2815. do you have any recommendations on what’s better for this usage? simply looking at price, it’s about 30-40% cheaper to go with the 2812b but if the performance of the ws2815 is much better/brighter (as it’s a 12v strip) i’d prefer to go with that. thanks!
@@evanwahler9862 I would go with the ws2812b and test those out. If you don't like it, return them and try the ws2815 ones!
@@ChrisMaherDIY perfect thanks a bunch man. i’ll do that!
Is this the 144LEDs/m variant of WS2815 or the 60LEDs/m?
Great video! Is this 60LED/Meter? I'm sorry if I missed that info in your video.
Ledstrip 12v keeps burning at the spot between the cables and led strip
Tried multiple cables and no cables are touching.
Also the led strip seems to be "starting up" is turns on sections at a time. After some sections the burning starts happening.
Im no electrical engineer and a friend told me this was how it needed to be done. Please help.
Ledstrip 12v keeps burning at the spot between the cables and led strip
Tried multiple cables and no cables are touching.
Also the led strip seems to be "starting up" is turns on sections at a time. After some sections the burning starts happening.
Im no electrical engineer and a friend told me this was how it needed to be done. Please help.
Hi, nice Vid. One question: What is the maximum length of the data cable from the controller to the strip? So that it works without errors. Is 3 meters too long?
If you set these up with home assistant to work with Alexa/echo, if you tell it to turn on whatever you name the led’s to, will it recall the last used effect?
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I'm 99% sure that it will recall the last used effect. If someone is reading this and knows 100% please let us know lol!
Hey Chris, what does this 12V LED strip makes better than the 50% cheaper WS2812 one? In my eyes there is no positive arguments, if you don't use it at 100% Power.
Correct me please if I am wrong or missing points.
Thanks and great question! I think you are 100% correct. If you either don't mind doing more power injection points or you don't need a strip to run at max brightness, I would still for sure go with the ws2812 because as you mentioned they are much cheaper!
Why you connected the Backup input to ground? Wouldn't either be connected to the same Data in input?
Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question. When setting things up I plugged it into the ground and everything worked fine so that's what I went with. lol so it very well could be done a different way and that way very well could be the better way!
Why did you connect the back up data wire to ground and not the green wire? There is no data coming from ground so where will the back up data come from?
Thanks so much for watching and great questions/observation. So when I was setting things up, i put the backup data line into the ground and tested things out and everything seemed to work fine so I just rolled with that. With that being said, I have no idea if that's the best way or the right way of doing it! Sounds like the backup data could/should maybe be plugged into the data line? Is that what you are thinking?
The backup data will come from the first to the second led.
The first led replicates the first data line to the backup line.
I can’t get my LED to stay in a solid color and every effect seems to blink out of control and have random colors… is this a config issue…?
@@Kencole19 this is probably a cabling issues. Try adding a resistor to the data line und use a shorter cable run for the data cable.
@@BeamDeam thanks… so just so I understand if I have a long data cable from the strip to esp32 module that can cause it to malfunction…?
love this video, question i have is would there be away to add a capacitive touch sensor to this setup ?
All in all it woud be possible, but i don't know how this can work together with wled, maybe you need to add something to the code.
Coltography did use some capacitive touch sensors for his LED ceiling with an esp but only for simple on/off
Thanks so much!! I would have to echo Big Foot. I think it for sure is possible but its something that I have not looked into or know for sure. maybe someone else reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in!
Thanks for the replies, im only new to all this my self so I have a fair bit to to learn and try and take on before attempting my project. Thanks again .
@chris maher Any videos on this type of setup using voice control like Alexa, Google, etc?
Thanks so much for watching! Man that is one thing I still need to venture into. I know WLED is compatible with Alexa but I have yet to try getting things set up to test out and make a video. It is for sure on my to do list for projects down the road!
how to install 20 meter ws2815 , bro ? btw your video always awesome. thanks for great content
Thanks so much for watching! I'm hoping to at some point soon make a video on larger room installs but I have yet to do anything that big so I would only be guessing at this point on the best way to do it. I know DrZZZ has some great content on longer installs and power injection! But its for sure on my list of projects to do so hopefully I can get to it sooner rather than later!
you only need 5a for 10m of leds?? I thought you'd need like 30a according to the calculators online
You need approx 10amp bcs they are 12v not 5v
I done all this but one issue occurred when power ON OFF the previous effect set will be gone and only bright light glow just need to again set effect kindly help me to save all time which i choosen effect
Thanks again! If you unplug it and plug it back in I believe it does reset. I think there is a way to choose what it boots up as (assigning pre-set) but i'm not 100% sure if there is an option to just select the previous state. Maybe someone that knows for sure can chime in if they know the answer!
I have to say that every video you published is awesome. I now have a guide on how to set up my lights in my home lab. Great job 👍
Thanks so much for watching and glad you are liking the videos!
Hi Chris,
I have 5050 led strips which run on 151 smds , can i connect it to ESP32 and control with wled?
Hi Chris
I’ve followed this video to the letter yet yet I do not get the same results.
When I plug LED strip in to power supply the full reel illuminates. When I introduce ESP32 with WLED the strip behaves erratically. I’ve tried using the voltage adapter to power the ESP and also separate supply, both yield the same result.
I’ve seen reference in the web to Logic Level Shifters but never heard/saw you use one in your projects.
Could this be the answer?
my friend, how much leds the ESP32 hold? and how much ampers, do you know? because i want to control 40meters, but probably the ESP won't support so much.
hello, I followed your instructions completely to the T with the same exact products but was not able to get it working.. I am able to connect to my esp32 and control WLED through wifi/app but no lights turn on. but the light strip is warm to the touch so I know there is definitely power going there. how do I troubleshoot?
Thanks for watching! First thing I would double check would be under led preferences, what number is in the gpio box? I used pin D2 for the data line and have 2 in that box. 2 I believe used to be the default number that was in there but on a couple recent flashes I think it was 16. I had to change it to 2 and then everything worked. Anyways that is just my initial thought on something to quick check!
@@ChrisMaherDIY YES IT FIXED IT!!! i would not have known to check that 😭 thank you so much for the quick response and all of the amazing detailed videos, your channel is literally a goldmine!
can anyone tell me what i should use for 70 feet / 22 meter.......... can I use ws2815 / 12v in one continuous line and using 12v 6a can some one help me ..thanks
Thanks so much for watching! For that amount of LEDs, you would have to do some type of power injection. I'm not exactly sure how much but I am all about trial and error. I would lay everything out and start out with no power injection and then go from there depending on how things looked. But maybe someone who is reading the comments might know for sure what would be recommended and can chime in!
@@ChrisMaherDIY I love it. Thanks
Hello. just bought Just bought ws2815 but I can't get it to light pure white. I think it should have the white colors. Can yours do it?
Just wondering is there a reason a PC PSU as that has 12v and 5v rails in it isn't an option when building somethign like this (Im thinking about a redesign in my house and have loads of thse) Im guessing I could run any comination of LED type I wanted then with a mix of voltages to suit, all with electrical protections in place already - and enough juice to light hte street. Presumably no one does not for a technical reason just the cost. Your videos have really come on, since those first few videos. Clear and simple. I likes.
Thanks so much buddy for the kind words! That's a really good question! I've never tried using a pc board but I dont see why it would not work and if it did, that would be very slick! Definitely worth experimenting with and seeing if/how it works! Let me know if you end up trying it because I would be curios how it turns out!
@@ChrisMaherDIY A PC PSU can be silent these days and pretty much comes standard and you get something like 30A on a cheap one to 50A on a decent one (but hte cost is a lot more obviuosl) on the 12V rail (although they are molex i'm sure you could chop the end off and wire it to whatever you want. Might make a good video idea. The 5V rail has the Sata connections, again just chop em off or amend hte female connection end to then wire onto the lights. Not sure how the datawires would work though haveing not don3e anything with the LEDs I bought 18 months ago! (project to come!) and usually you get multiple of each. Older PSUs favour the molex and 12v, as SSDs and smaller drives now run on 5v so usually you get more. It'd have all the necessary protection and all that as they have to to meet the EU standards. I reckon it'd be a doddle for you. One switch to turn on and it'd run the whole room. Add that onto a plug that can be controlled via you app to switch it on and off. Hey presto! :)
Hi. wonderful tutorial, it pushed me try. Just becouse i had a lot of 2815 that i use for shows on stages, and i was searching a good solution to avoid distance limitation with cables.
Unfortunatly my first test returned a full white strip, blinking a bit, with tiny rgb noise. Backup and Gnd wired toghether as you... i try to ask, beacause looks so simple but i'm not seeing the proper light at the end... any suggestion? i'm powering the esp32 with a phone charger through usb, and the ledstrip through a DC power supply. maybe is that? i bought a pack of 12Vto5V, that will arrive in few days
thanks a lot!
Thanks for reaching out! One thing to double check is that the gnd from the power supply, led strip and eap device is all common. Also double check in led preferences that the dpio pin is set to the pin that you used for data on the board. Let me know if any of that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY yeee what a stupit, was the ground not in common! Thanks! I ask here maybe interest also others like me. Can you explain why and when is needed to use the level shifter? Have a nice day
Great video man I'm building a campervan and the whole roof will have this setup. Question I have is I'm probably going to be running around six 16' led strips and I see that they make 200-300 watt drivers. You're running 60 watts for 2 strips so would you say it's 60 watts per 32 feet? Or 600 less? Also my entire system is running off 12v so I can power these strips directly from a battery bank. Is there a driver that doesn't need to convert 2 AC so I can avoid the plug? Thanks for the input dude. It's helping my idea bc closer to reality
Thanks so much for watching and that sounds like an epic project! So I wish i was more knowledgeable on the specific details of the power aspect of things. (I could but I just have not taken the time to really dive into this) I really generally just order a few different power supplies, hook things up on the floor, see how it looks and then go from there in regards to bigger supply, smaller supply or power injections. I have also never done as big of a project that your taking on so I don't have firsthand experience on what to use but trial and error is the best way to go! I'm also not aware of a driver that does not need to convert 2 ac but I can for sure see what that would be helpful! It very well may exist but i've just never looked into that either. I am at some point wanting to get more into leds and cars so hopefully I can be of more help on these types of questions down the road! Maybe someone else whos reading the comments might know for sure and can chime in on some of these great questions!
@Chris Maher no problem and thanks for the input. Im currently going to hook up everything to a 200 watt driver...I'll let you know the rusults!
Hello Chris Thank you for the information. Could you possibly do a short video on powering esp32 with usb rather than buck converter. As I have already own 3 esp32 boards.
Thanks so much for watching! So I have done that but I don't think did a video. There are mixed opinions when it comes to powering the esp device with a micro usb but i've never had any problems. So what you can do is plug the micro usb into the esp32. then you would still need to attach a wire to the gnd pin and connect that to the gnd from the 12v power supply that is going to the led strip. That should be all you need to do if my memory is correct. Then the data from the esp would still go to the data on the led strip and there would be nothing attached to the vin pin on the esp32. Hope that helps!
@@ChrisMaherDIY Thanks a lot will try it now. was attaching the VIN as well and hence was destroying the espS
3 amps for a tape this size, mine is 2 meters long and 2 amps doesn't work
Is it possible to connect or integrate in the govee app?
Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment. It will not integrate with Govee.
Does it matter if you use a 3 Amp or 5 Amp power supply on these? I see you are using 5 AMp but curious if its ok to go with 3 Amps
Where you buy flex channel for this LED ? Its Amazing and i need buy for suprise my kid.
Thanks so much for watching! Are you wanting to put these lights in a flexible diffuser channel? Like s silicone tubing?
@@ChrisMaherDIY yes but now i swe. You dont have silicone flex tube. You buy normal linear tube.
Chris great awesome helpful videos. Do you recommend any one specific profile channel or LED brand to use on ceilings/walls for lighting used as main light source? Similar to what is show for more contemporary design layouts?
How do you determine what brand and setup to use for different lighting use. I.e.
1) Main light source
2) Entertainment Audio/Video Around TV
3) Gaming
4) Bar area?
5) General hallway ceilings/walls?
6) Garage ceilings for more brighter lighting
7) Stair case under stair tread lighting
Also Govee seems to have a really user friendly package deal with products, power, and switch however if you need lighting for example threw out ceilings leading to one switch for on/off how do you setup this? Or another example would be having multiple LED strips on different ceiling/walls that leads to one power source and control source how would this be setup?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Thanks so much for watching and that's a great question! Since i've never tried using led profiles/ lights for a main lighting source, i'm afraid I would just be guessing if I gave you any advice. I really do like govee but i'm not sure their led strips would be best for main lighting since the white color on the strips is not a dedicated white. My approach with everything is do a little online research, order what I think will be best, test it out and either keep it and use it because it looks nice, or return things, get my money back and try something else. I'm very much a trial and error type of guy so that's usually how I go about doing things. I also don't really have any experience yet on switches or trying to run power to main house supply. Hopefully someday I'll know a lot more answers to be more helpful!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thank you greatly appreciate the info and help. I will give the trial and error idea a go. I see more and more homes now are using the long LED Strip lighting in ceilings for multiple rooms on same floor as a main light and was just wondering what they are using or how is setup (i.e all wired to same adapter, controller) and if that is the best quality setup and materials. only issue was not understanding the power side of things. Also if you install LED strip lights in different rooms do you use one (1) power source or controller? I like the Govee idea. But my fear is one I install the LED strip and something wacky goes wrong and requires repair or replacement I need to access the power adapter, or any other component controller or actual wiring how do I access these cut back into drywall?
PS..
I thought those type of leds were power hungry? Like its drawing max currant even when no led lit?
That i'm not sure on! I would have to get some type of tool to measure things. Maybe I'll check things out down the road!
@@ChrisMaherDIY thanks for the reply. I was to believe that those type work by shorting the ic soo when all are "off" they are still drawing power as there are shorted at the chip not switched off. sure you'll find this out. Maybe put that as a foot note in the future if you use this type again.
Thanks for your work.
Great videos Chris , just getting into LED designing and starting with my sons room renovation, quick question on using the ESP32 or other WLED controllers- Have you ever used any type of enclosure for them to keep them safe and protect them , or just tuck them up somewhere hidden most of the time and not worry about it? TIA Steve
Thanks so much for watching and great question! I mostly just put them behind something and there they sit. However, a few people have mentioned they have used traveling soap boxes to protect the esp device. This is also where 3d printing would come in handy but something I have yet to dive into.