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3:30 Screw terminal connections can become loose over time, even if the wires don't move or are mechanically unloaded. To eliminate this possibility, crimp bootlace ferrules to the wires. Don't tin the wires with solder, that can loosen over time (the solder cold flows under pressure) and it can introduce a weak spot inside the insulation.

If you get some Quinled controller, you can feed your esp from 12V, no need for separate voltage supply for your board. You also get fuse and reverse polarity protection for safety. And level shifter on your data pins

I would like to do something like this in my garage. Love the Step by step walk through Chris does.👍

This is the exact video I needed! Thanks!!

Awesome heads up Chris! Thanks! 😉

Your channel is blowing up! good work man

Bought these LEDS. They actually came in a waterproof jacket making it harder to mount with just take. But pretty cool that it came with waterproofing.

Thank you Chris.

I know what channel I should reference back to when I start my project , saved !

I followed everything you said. It worked...i even added a mic..THANK YOUUUU!!! 👊👊👊

@ChrisMaherDIY , this channel is GOLD. The fast pace is perfect, great camera work and sound quality, intuitive instructions. A question for Chris (or anyone): I am planning to cut a Muzata strip in half to use in 2 8ft tube lights (WLED/esp32), each powered by it's own power supply. 1. Each uncut strip is 60 watts. So I would guess each half is 30watts? 2. The power supply shown in the video is 12v/3amp. Isn't this underpowered, at 36 watts? would a 12v/5amp be more appropriate? 3. Since I am running half strips, presumed to be 30 watts each, do I still need the 12v/3A/36w power supply or can I go smaller like a 12v/2a?) thx for any answers or ideas!

Adapter life will be short lived. Looks Awesome.❤

Been using these for a while, they work great for making an animated Christmas tree that displays animations with xLights.

Chris, how the hell do you up the anti with each video ? 😂🎉. Your creations are just so out of this world.

another great video, cool strip for the price point and number of LED per foot. Keep the light on my friend and keep going always look foward to your videos :)

Amazing! Thank you!

Thanks for amazing videos! Learning a lot recently , Possible maybe to do like 1/2 year summary video's of products you love and ones to avoid? just an idea.

Thanks fir tor the info

First off your the guy who got me to raise an eyebrow to all this LED lighting stuff while I was searching for PC desk ideas. Thanks! Now I'm always thinking of ways to use it everything. My question is; Is it possible to utilize a single WLED data line for a GPIO pin , directing it to a level shifter, and subsequently daisy-chain the data line on the low side, ensuring the synchronized output of data on the 5-volt side for multiple LED strips? Just a thought I had. I really like your videos they have helped me learn a lot. Any feed back would awesome.

I need to figure out how I can run 60ft for my entire small theater room ceiling and these looked great. I’m new to this so figuring out a power supply for the LED’s and how much I’d need is a question I need to get an answer for so it will help me from getting super frustrated and will allow the LED’s to perform without falling out. Great channel and I love the content, you’ve inspired me to do this in my house because you lay it out an make it feel like it’s much easier than I first thought it would be. Thanks! 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼

I get 60/m ws2812b ip65 and ip67 for $10-11 in a 5 meter roll. this is only 1.5 times that density for 3 times the price and with a third of the controllability. It is cheaper and easier to power though with the 12volts. 144/m ws2812b in 1 meter strips is $6-7. that's $30-35 for a 5 meter run. that yields 1.5 times this density and 3 times the addressability. That's a lot to power though. Thanks for a different perspective on things. Your videos are always enjoyable and you are very thorough. Thanks for all the hard work. I'm staying 5 volt and doing cob strips. Keeps getting cheaper.

You're definitely my led guy! 👊

really awesome, would love to know if you could put this in a car for underglow or some interior accent lighting.

Hi Chris, I hope you are well mate, These remind me of the TM1812 LED strips I started out with, they were amongst the first to be digitally addressable, like these they were 3 LEDs per pixel and 12v, but they were full 5050 SMD LEDs from memory, Great find though, thanks as always for the video.

Great idea's imagination limtless Thanks for sharing.

Simply ‘wow’

Thank you for the video these lights look great. But I was wondering if I can possibly rig them up to fit a 42’ space? If not can you suggest a set of multicolor lights that can please. I was going to use a 10 meter Govee and connect it to a 3 meter Govee but I was told it wouldn’t work. You’re the man. Mike

THAT. Looks Swawesome!

Dude! That's amazing! Thank you! Side note: I recommend spending $10 on a metal cutting disc for your miter saw. You'll get cleaner cuts without sacrificing the blade.

Thanks Chris. I just bought 10 through your Channel 😄

Love the channel. Anyone know what song is playing during Final Thoughts? Song is sooo dope

What would you suggest for this type of setup with HomeKit control?

Great video as always! What would you power this with if you used 3 strips of lights?

Thank you Chris. Can you do a video explaining WLED segments and how to use more than one data (GPIO) pin? Thanks.

Hey great video! I have a question that isn’t related to this video but I will ask it anyways. I want to line my room with led strips which is around 55 feet total. I wanted to buy the Govee LED Strip Light M1 for the room, but I would need 4 of their strips. I know that I can connect two of the strips together like you shared earlier on your channel, but would I be able to connect 4? Or should I only connect 2 and have 2 separate strips with separate power supplies that govee provides?

Awesome Video Awesome led light strip

Looks like the ESP32 comes in a Type C now! I'm just now starting this project for my stairs. Does the type c board change the pin connections at all that you know of? I am in purchasing stage of the project.

Thanks for this video; I went ahead and bought a roll of this Muzata LED strip and am looking forward to running it with WLED. I have a few questions, though. I can see on the WLED app that there's a field where you enter your power supply voltage and max voltage. Those appear to be set to 5V on the app but you're using a 12V supply. How should those fields be set? Also, in other demos, I've seen that person using a logic level shifter to bump up the voltage of the data signal. You're not doing that here. I assume it's working for you because you have a fairly short distance between the microcontroller and the strip?

Great stuff! I have to try that controller and WLED (I’m a LIFX guy and they’ve stepped up their scenes recently). QUESTION- Does WLED app allow music synch through phone?

Hi Chris, learned a lot from you lately. i have some ws2812B led which only has 3 wires data, gnd and vin. connected to a small Bluetooth controller which has motion and sound sensor and the other end of this small controller connecting to a usb plug for power. Do you think it is possible to connect this to esp32 and keeps the motion and sound functions? Also i would love to only use power from the esp32 with phone charger.....it is enough for my setup if possible

Hi love this setup can be I inject 12 volt to the second roll? Lemme know thanks

Awesome video @Chris Maher - is there a way to get this same idea to work but on a different scale like staircases? Like being able to control them with motion sensors? Imagine motion sensors create a different effect depending on someone walking down vs up a set of stairs?! Imagine being able to set a motion sensor on every single step if needed and make it work to only stay lit for a few seconds as needed?!!!

I love the videos - even though I usually end up disappointed. Living in Europe, theres just no way to get anything remotely similar to this in our scrappy versions of amazon.

Thanks for sharing 👍🏻 We easily get this in India, and is widely used in bars/clubs. These are known as WS2811 Pixel Led Strip, 60 Leds per meter, 5 meters roll, 100 IC's are like 12 USD a roll. Low quality are cheaper but those fail very very soon. 96 Leds per meter would be a little expensive though.

Great vid! Love your videos but I wish all these products youre sharing would be available on the European Amazon :-(

muzata channels prices have went bonkers tbh and not all their channels are even available in Canada. I would like to see more projects done with cob led strips especially for accent only projects, I feel they are really getting interesting these cob strips especially since I think you can stick then in any cheaper channels.

Hi so question a bit unrelated have the LED's hooked up in sink with the TV ( forgot name ) is it best to have a white background Wall or darker background wall. I'm building new house was thinking of making that wall behind tv a feature wall IE darker but if whiter colour is better I'll leave as is. Thx

Can you do a wLED ambient set up for 120inch projector screen pretty please 🙏 I haven't found those content yet but I know it can be done

What would be the best led strip series (addressable of course) to use to go around an entire bedroom (for my kids rooms, I think the run would be between 60-70 foot)? I'm thinking of ordering the esp32 setups, but there are SOOOO many choices of led strips! 30 per meter would be fine, just looking for something addressable that won't break the bank, but also won't draw a lot of current, as I am sure my kids will probably leave them on quite often! (kids hate to turn lights off lol) Thanks!!

Hi. Great video - I'm getting closer to diving into WLED thanks to you 🙂 A quick heads-up though - Here in the UK, the Amazon links don't appear to open the strips you use in this video - just a warning to anyone who gets too click-happy and ends up buying something unexpected.

Chris love the vids . sucks that in less than 16 that you posted this the leds are no longer available

Tip, if you have voltage drop at the end of led then to the other end just add same 12v wire and all sorted so the voltage supply will be on both sides from the same power supply.

super cool

looking for a led strip lighting that i can use on a flight of stairs. Each tread is 35 inches long and there are 15 treads. The tread overhangs the riser by 1 1/4 inches....so i could dado in the aluminum channels. Having the lights go on when someone uses the stairs would be good too. Being able to do different light colors and patterns is cool. Any suggestions you might have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Roger

Great review. Too bad this is not available in Australia 😮

Far out, dude. Fantastical! Trippy. We are the light.

can we use theses LED strips with the mic you used in one of you videos since you were using a 5v power supply?

Is there a way to create your own animations and is there a way to connect it to a device that would make it beat sync animations??

Those are 97led /m according to the Amazon listing. Those are also wa2811 instead of ws2812b so they are three pixels wide for each color. And btf lighting sells 5m strips that are. 100 led/m for $22 and btf is the best quality I've used in all my projects over the years. The ws2811 is awesome.

complete noob to led lights here, and I want to do things properly! I need to hook up 3 strips together, what kind of power supply would I need ? I found a 12v 5A supply on amazon, would that be OK (and safe?) to use? thanks. What would be the other options? Could I buy 2 of those small power supplies and power the strip at both ends ? Thanks!

Double-check your model, but I am fairly certain most ESP devices can take up to 12V.

Hey Chris, looking to see of there's a way to use wled in an automotive option - maybe go with a 12v strip of leds? Would lilove to pickvyour brain about this

Can this type setup be used for outdoor underneath a deck railing?......completely waterproof?

WS2812 and WS2813 are amazing. The WS2813 even has another pin for redundancy, should one connection break, the other will take it's place

Nice! Do you know if these LED strips have dedicated white LED's for kitchen under mounts?

Do you have a good led strip or cob strip for outdoors 32 ft long I will be hooking up with a esp32 ?

Follow up question. I would like to wire up some led lights in such a way that I have a main power bus line and then branches of LED lights (picture a tree if you will). If I remove a branch of LED, the others should remain lit. If I am using a total of 5 meters of LEDs lights (the ones you used in this video actually), would I need a different power source or is what you demonstrated enough?

Could you recommend a second best for price/value? I am using WLED to control them, the Muzata just aren’t coming back in stock.

Thanks for a great review. Does this strip "remember" last setting on power loss and recovery?

The amperage rating of your supply does not matter for longer lengths of strips. The voltage drops happens due to the current draw, so even if it was a 12V 60A supply it wouldn't have made a difference. All that matters is the resistance, hence why voltage injection helps. If the strips consume what the supply can provide, but you inject voltage along the strips using wires which lower the overall resistance, you should'nt see any drop in brightness.

Any help to how to make ceiling light with these? I am looking for high CRI light that would be like a big circle in the roof. -------- ------------- -------- Trying to make something like that to ceiling. With diameter of 1.5m (5feet) Then hang soft box canvas over it to soften it up.

Hey Chris, I loved your creativity and methods using RGB led strip in multiple ways, I just want to know how to run wled software remotely from anywhere using internet, can you please demonstrate?

I would like some Leds that are plug and play but will not show hot spots in my diffusers. Can you recommend? The Muzata links says not available.

I have a question I bought some BTF 50/50 RGBW light strips to put in a bathroom it came with 5 wires connector,,, how do I connect it to ESP 32,,, thank you in advance

Great job

In your newer video you’re using Aqara. Which one is better?

Awesome price point and well done video! Though, If possible I have 2 questions. 1. Can I cut this LED strip as I'll be needing about 2.5 of them. 2. What power supply would you recommend for about 43ft (13M)

Two questions if you please. 1) isn’t a led strip that has rgb-w better if you also want to do warm white ? 2) what is Quin Led used for? Is it pure safety and if you need to please led lighting far away? What’s the added value???

I have an issue finding a esp32 with a VIN pin, i could need some help since aliexpress doesn't ship to austria

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Any plans to hide the wire connection on the right? If so, how?

Thats a great price point, I'm ordering some to add to the others I still havent installed 😅

How would you go about using these as primary lighting? Looking at using them under the back patio with an on/off switch for the white LED's for normal lighting, then have the RGB's for parties.

That diffuser channel.. any idea on how to mount it on a couch (I got a U shaped sectional). I've been wanting to do "under glow" for my couch but trying to figure out the best way to do this. Thoughts?

Can I add the Wled control unit for rgb cct led strip as well?

Have you ever looked at the BTF WS2811 12v? These also have 96led per meter and also around 30 euros.

Is there some semi budget eu alternative? these guys unfortunately don’t ship over here to Germany

Hello Chris, I have a question, I have the Govee DreamView T1 Pro TV and I want to add to the wall the M1 light strip but i need 2 of them of 2m to put them in each side of the bed, so can I cut one of 5m and do it 2 of 2m? I can do it, will them still work? Ty🙃 pd: by the way, because of you I can't stop buying led lights. 🤣😂

I want to do a project with lightning clouds on my ceiling I’m struggling to choose what stripes I should use

How much did your dream gaming setup you made a month ago pls tell me

Do you know how many lumens per meter it has and if it’s compatible with HomeKit?

Your WLED had different animations than what I have. Is there a pack that you downloaded to add more than the default ones?

What did you do to hide the wires @ 7:20?

Greg video Chris went on their website and bought 25-meter reels. Have a question though, Chris. For long runs do I have to do injection of both the 12-volt power and the signal? Or just a run of red and black wires for the 12-volt for even brightness?

Looks promising. Question, do you need to inject power? Won't the esp power the LEDs?

This is a very good instruction video for LED strip beginners. But the provided WS2811 strip is by far not the best one, you can use. And also not the cheapest :)

Can wled be integrated with the Philips hue network/bridge

Can you please review the dig2go?