Hey all Just getting started on some smart home stuff - I’m looking to get some strip lighting and there is a lot of stuff out there and honestly I’m not sure what I should get. Ideally it would be RGB but I’m OK with white/warm light.
The ZBT-2 can do both ZigBee and Thread, and I haven’t got any pre-existing devices so I can go either of those.
I thought about getting some IKEA lighting because I believe they use Thread now?
What’s the prevailing wisdom out there?
I build my own using ESP32’s, WS2812B RGB Strips and WLED. Drop the controller into a small hobby box and add a power supply and it’s of to the races.
https://kno.wled.ge/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wled/
My front porch has a little over 1500 LED’s wrapped around it. I built my own RGB LED backlit address numbers. And I’m working on a project that lights up my stairs. I’ve made a few other things and have ideas for a bunch more.
There is no support for zigbee, matter, or thread. But what can be done with it is well beyond anything else I’ve seen.
https://wled.discourse.group/t/wled-equipped-address-numbers/15217 is my address numbers in a short video.
https://wled.discourse.group/t/fully-fledged-staircase-implementation/2182 is the stair implementation I’m going to use for my own.
Very cool, just had a look at a WS2812B and an ESP32 - seems like it’d be reasonably priced. I think I’ll go down this route.
I’m away from my computer at the moment, but I’ll read into this a bit more and see how achievable it is.
Thanks for this
No problem. Just remember it gets addictive. I stick led strips and strings in a ton of stuff. My other half bought a wire work Christmas deer that had old incandescent lights in it and I threw some RGB string lights with WLED. She bought a metal star with little cutouts in it and I mounted it to a board and stuck some RGB’s in it as well. Took a piece of scrap OSB and printed Merry Christmas off in big letters then drilled holes at regular intervals to put a bunch of the individual pixels from a string of RGB’s into as well.
My intention is to eventually put strips in nearly every room in the house and install them outside as well. That way when I want a different color than white I can just change it with the LED’s.
I’m planning to create a huge Christmas display that can play short videos and graphics on to setup where our city does a display each year. And at some point I’m going to pitch them letting me upgrade the Christmas decorations with WLED and RGB strings. Then with a couple AP’s strategically placed in can setup a synchronized light show.
Like I said WLED is amazing.
I found a FireBeetle 2 ESP32 C6 has Thread support, that looks like it’ll be perfect
Just because it has thread support doesn’t mean it will work. Both the hardware and software have to support it. Research it before you buy.