Got some channel and attached a strip. I designed and printed some clips to hold the channel. These will let me attach the strip using the existing screws on the bottom strut plate of my LR3. Since I’m attaching to the back screws, I made the clips have a bit of a forward angle. The controller I ordered will be here in a couple days and then I’ll get it hooked up.
P.S. I’m enjoying FreeCAD. It has some quirks (so did Fusion) but it hasn’t given me much grief.
P.P.S. I also ordered a remote control for WLED. It uses ESP NOW which is an interesting wireless protocol that works on ESPs. You can use it to turn the strip on and off, select presets 1-4, and adjust the brightness.
P.P.P.S. I’m also considering writing a simple WebUI v3 extension so you can adjust the brightness and turn the strip on/off. Some other interesting things are possible as well given that you can use the WLED usermod functionality to allow for control of the usermod via it’s API.
Ok, enough Ps. But I was also chatting in the WLED discord and it seems like I can probably get this added to the official codebase once I’m done. That will enable some build tools they have available. I’m not likely to do that until I’m comfortable with its state and feature set. For awhile, using this will require doing a custom WLED build with PlatformIO. I can at least provide a build for the controller I’m using and maybe some others as requested as long as that doesn’t get out of hand.
I was able to get mirroring the effect around the position functionality working, but it requires some quirky things with segments that might not be worth it. Otherwise, it has an odd transition when you pass the halfway point depending on the effect being used.