Lets say you purchased a set of LED lights that are addressable so you can make some cool affects, gut you realize the app to control the strip is CCP and links to the Communist Party servers and they want to see what your up to. Of course 40% of Americans are communist so they’ll just download the app and give all their info to their future leaders. Some of us just don’t want anyone watching what we are doing, so what’s the fix.
Cut the F’en cable and wire it up with a esp32 controller, but wait there’s a hitch. The wire colors don’t follow any sort of standard so you better pin them out. Here is the pin-out from these dirt cheap Lenovo Smart LED strips.
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Getting started research:
1 Identify the controller to be used (ESP32S)
2 Determine the controller power requirements (3v)
3 Determine the Led Strip voltage, amps to be determined by length (12v)
the power to the esp32 has to be reduced or seperate from the strip power. I am using the power supply from the strip so will power the esp32 seperately
Looking at the power plug and the wiring pinout the power supply is 12v 1.0amp, looking at the connector its rated at.3amp, + is the pin in the middle and verified it’s the red wire
Created a wiring harness, power brick to the strip with 12v, then matched the colors on the other wires
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When I attached the power to the LED strip it lit up as green, I followed the gpio pin discription from wled and the esp image and put one of the led channel pins on the GPIO port, pin27 which is GPIO16 which is RX2 but there was no response from the LED strip. Learning continues….
I will post a steps discription on the forumla.localad.com web for more detailed instruction on how I was able to get the esp32 working and arduino ide
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https://forumla.us/community/postid/518/