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

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.

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.

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".

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for the video, ibe been planning the same for a while and its good to know what to look out for. 😊

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.

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.

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

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

Great video

have to say, that is a really nice kitchen

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 :)

Just some tips/advice. Never tin wires that will be placed in a compression fit situation. The solder will deform over time and you will get loose connections that will be at risk. For compression terminals, use crimps or just compress the bare copper. Wago's are weird as they are a locking but technically compression fit wire connector.

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!

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!

Nice setup. Thanks for sharing. Really well explained too. I have a few sets of GOVEE LED strips around the house, but I can't individually select LEDs or even recreate scenes from the GOVEE app in Home Assistant, which is a real pain. I was looking for an alternative solution and this looks like it 👍

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.

Great video! This is on my to do list. I've been sitting on my dog quad for a while now and with prime day around the corner... It's a go for me! I'll show my partner for justification 😂

Thanks

I used a neutral light for under cabinet lighting, I thought about coloured but decided I didn't need colour for that, just dimmable. I did use colour around the top of the cabinet pointing toward the ceiling though. That way I can have the flexibility on how to use them . I didn't need digital LED's though, so I used analogue controllers as having the entire strip the same colour was suitable for me. So around the top is 4 channel, RGBW. Under the cabinets is neutral white, about 4000K and around the floor is also 4000K. I got all my LED's from BTF Lighting, which have proven to be very reliable. I got all of them as 24Volt analogue, so that means very little issue with voltage drop. All of them are controleld with Quindor's QuinLED Analogue 4 channel controllers, which I can't remember what they were called now. It is the older model than the current ones he has. All of it running ESPHome and has been really reliable. I use a few scenes as well. My "night light" scene doesn't turn on any of the ceiling downlights (can lights as ome in US call them) and only use the LED Strips for night light, as I find the downlights made it a little bright for that night light.

I finally caught up!

I LOVE this! You've done whats been in my brain for the last 6 months to a year. I also researched qundor and dr zzzs channels to get info about this stuff but couldn't find anything specific for kitchen lights/home assistant. I am so grateful for you showing how the automations work and will be looking to incorprate similar ones in my own setup. I got a bit diheartened by aliexpress unfortunately, I usually dont have issues with shipping, but recently placed a large order for the wiring/crimping cables etc and it was lost :( I am also based in the UK, do you have any suggestions for where to source the wiring and connectors you used locally/reliably? Thanks!

A minor piece of advice. A hot air gun does a much better job at shrinking heatshrink tubing than a lighter. It will shrink more evenly and there's less rick of burn marks. Not that important when it's going to be hidden anyway, but for anything that will be clearly visible I'll use a hot air gun.

It does not matter what voltage you got. If your screw terminal is loose even 5V 10A can start a fire. But othervise great video

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!

Hi Alan, another great video. We are in the process of a new kitchen fit out and I am looking at the lighting. Based on your other video we are standardising on the Candeo dimmer switch generally around the house. This will work fine for the GU10 spots in the ceiling, but I am wondering if there is a way to get the under cabinet lights to be controllable via a Candeo dimmer as well. This would allow manual control via a "standard" looking dimmer (which has much greater approval factor than touch screens etc) and also allow scenes etc to be configured in HA. Any help greatly appreciated.

Nice video, for the wall panel which type of device you haved used?

Ive just created the same thing in my kitchen, The sk6812 is my go to led now. How abaout an automation that sets a sequence that notifys when you or your partner are leaving work/nearing your area so you can plate up.

This is what people have been doing for time!!

did you check how much current your installation drain if you set power off? I prefer controller with an output relay to fully turn off the led strip.

You have some exposed 240v copper and single insulated cable on your PSU connections there. They should be inside an insulated enclosure. If you had an EICR, these would require rectification as they are a shock hazard and fire risk.

Nice work. I've done a fair amount of projects with WLED, but only for ambient lighting, never "work light", using ESP32 and WS2812 strips. I've looked at exactly SK6812 before, but never pulled the trigger, because I found it to expensive. But it seems to have fallen in price since i last checked. But just to be sure, did you go for 30 or 60 LED's per meter?

Great video. Ive done the same with my shelves either side of my tv. My only confusion is the wled setting for maximum power. If i have a 5 amp ppwer supply, and i push the maximum amps in WLed to above this, is it in danger of catchijg fire?

Thanks for the video Alan, I like the idea of doing such projects together with a friend or family. Quick suggestion: You already mentioned to use the light strips as a notification when you're done cooking/baking, but you can also use them as an actual timer or even timers, so you can actually see the progress. Timers for anything really, cooking/baking ofc, but also exercise, lunch/tea break, next meeting, battery levels (ie 1 pixel per home automation device) and the colors can show you the power left, etc, etc. Have fun! :)

Hi what kind of recessed lights do you have? Love those small ones

Great video ! I think you made a small mistake in the 5v power supply link, it shows a power supply with 24V ?

I have set up some buttons on my overview to turn different WLED presets on/off. When I click the button, the icon does not light up for that particular button. Do you know how I can add this? Would you be able to show a snippet of the yaml used for the buttons on your setup?

Why did it take till today to know about Call a service 'Scene: Create' on, Thank you!

get a project box for that power supply btw also at 6:20 there is no need to put solder on the wires really tbh, if anything it can auctully make a worse conenction over time in terminals

2:24 - Not quite, higher voltage is safer with regard to fires because the current (amps) is lower when transferring the same power (watts). High current + thin cables = overheating. Voltage below 50V is usually considered safe for humans. And I think you'd also have less issues with voltage drop. 6:21 - those Wagos are rated for stranded wires, you don't need to tin the ends because they have spring contacts. And for screw terminals you'd better use crimped ends because solder tends to be malleable and that causes bad connections which would be another fire hazard

What are the sensors that you use to determine if it's dark or not? I tried WLED with an esp32, 1m of a WS2812B 5V, to create a sunrise effect for my kids room. On the WLED device page I can use and set de effect to be running for 10min and it works fine. I do the Preset and make it available on HA, but when I run an automation the effect doesn't work and turns on the WLED strip as if the Sunrise effect is over. Can you make a video on how to do presets on WLED and use them on Homeassistant?

I have been pulling my hair out over the last month or so - decided to jump into the WLED world, so I can integrate it into HA. What a journey (massive learning curve), starting with ESP controllers (fried one - to much voltage, not flashing successfully / soldering issues etc etc). So I purchased a QuinLedUno and a Dig2Go (awesome little device this for audio reactive). Both awesome products. The Uno Ive hooked up to 10m (600 leds) in my office, due to get another 5m to cover my facing wall (behind my monitor). Its so awesome to finally get to this stage and play around with them. Defo would like to see more automations with them Alan - atm, Ive only got them set to a presence detection sensor when I walk into my office.

Instead of running the data cable the length of the strip. You should have just inverted the direction on the strip so it plays the effect backwards.

Watch out for any connections in a high temp or high moisture area.

How do you connect your WLED to your Home Assistant?

How do get the washing and door bell lined to your lighting for notifications????

Apologies if I missed it in the video, but what’s the power consumption, both in use and everything “off”? I’d like to do something similar but am anxious about this aspect.

It is actually better for light to place leds closer to door than wall. Just try and see it by yourself

I use mine to give an indication wich bin is being picked up

Thank you for your very helpful video Led setup. I’d really appreciate it if you could figure out a way to have the colours change when I’m having a hypo or hyper to medically keep me alive. It would be a miracle to help not only myself but many more people who get sick of hearing alarms and buzzards to be alerted you need to do something important. I have a Dexcom on me to monitor my Blood levels and would like to change colours when I’m low and need to eat too high I need to exercise. Like yourself, I’m a Nerd if that is what you want to class it as but I class it as trying to keep alive more safely and more discretely when people are at my property. I have HA setup with normal Leds at the moment but would love to have your setup in my Kitchen and living room Bedroom and stairs. But My kitchen is very small and I have no units that have plinths at the top to hide the wiring so all your wires would be very hard for me to hide. And I prob have to do it at the back of an oven or the back of a washer to bring the wires up. But as we all know water and electricity don’t mix. But until I know it's possible, I do not want to attempt this big setup. But It would be a miracle if possible and less noise keeps ringing in my ears 24hrs 365 days a year and no rest from it day and night! 😊 thanks hope you can help and work with me on this project!

Stupid question time. I have 3 buttons on my light switch in kitchen. One of them is for the under cabinet lights. Does this solution also usable via this button so I can turn on and off?

You mentioned that the lights change to blue if it's raining outside.... Do you have a weather station?

You don’t need to run the data tothe first strip if you use separate pin for data, I have separate pins per section and configure the order in LED preferences

AURORA BOREALIS? At this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country, localised ENTIRELY within your kitchen?

Which wall panel is that you use for HA?

Hey Alan, Love your videos, but haven't seen anything from you for a couple of months. Are you taking a break from KZfaq?

Hey, noticed you haven't posted in a while and hope all is well!

AURORA BOREALIS

if you have a garage door, you might illuminate a light to let you know the door is still open after a certain time at night. Thanks for sharing all this, I'm at a similar point with my home automation and I think I'd like to replicate your setup....

You could change the color if your garbage collection will arrive tomorrow

I would probably enclose the pcb-s somehow. The top of your kitchen will be dusty, and greasy overtime. That is no good for a bare electronics.

Contact Chris maker for information on setting up leds. Colin

Kirchoff's Law for current distribution in a network.

Last video for a while, I take it that the smart home project is over?

No tin in Wagos! This is not even allowed.

Wago works better without tinnig

"I really love cooking"... shot of using plastic chopping board If you love your knives, get some wood to chop on 👍