You could use esphome. But wled is much more feature full and works smoothly with home assistant.
3 Likes
Yes!
I have Kasa bulbs set up for all types of animation.
HA has built in integration with wled, but I haven’t taken advantage of it yet.
Today I had to fix a weird flicker on some of the strings. It came down to a bad crimp on one of the connections.
Then I designed and printed an enclosure to make the wled controllers a little more weather resistant.
I also finally got around to rebuilding my power supply I use to power all my inflatable decorations. The exhaust fan is a psychoticaly loud delta that makes it sound like a leaf blower. I have a noctua on the way.
3 Likes
Next on my list is converting these to WLED
I’m about to start installing 10m strip along my house and drive. I have bought everything in summer 2024 with a plan to install it before shorter days will come. Fortunately shorter days come each year, so maybe, for a change, I will find time this year? 
1 Like
Have you done that before? Do you have a tutorial link for that?
No. I haven’t done it before, but it looks like it’s just a 3-pin coming out of the controller. I need to grab the multi meter and take some measurements before I start hacking cables. I’m even considering buying a second set of lights to play with without breaking the currently installed ones.
2 Likes
I think I like the lightening effect in red the most, will turn that on until I have more time to play around with Xlights.
@jeffeb3 Also mentioned home assistant somewhere on this forum. I got sucked down that rabbit hole and decided to do a 2 for 1 installation. HA compatible lights will be going up everywhere now.
More strips to come as soon as I figure out how to wire the data pins in a sensical manner with the least amount of wire and controllers.
3 Likes
I’m using a slow ‘breathe’ effect on the front of the house right now that’s cycling between purple and orange. It’s a nice effect. The wife brought home a 4’ chicken skeleton from tractor supply yesterday. I have that set up with a spot light on it. The rest of the govee spotlights come in this evening. Saturday I plan on hacking up the cable to see about putting a wled controller on it. Worst case, I have to splice the old controller back in.
3 Likes
Seems he isn’t too old to get it up yet. 
Maybe the red light helps set the mood for getting up more? 
2 Likes
It’s “green means go” on the alexa controlled smart bulb in our bedroom. Just sayin’.
4 Likes
I got the wled hooked up to the govee spot lights. It works, but it looks like there’s a bug in the led driver. The led driver that these use have a separate control byte that sets config in the driver on start up. It doesn’t look like this is being configured correctly. I have to reset the led preferences after start up to get full brightness. I have a thread in discord about it m
3 Likes
The bug has been figured out. Combination of switching to current alpha branch and changing the max output current per LED in the configs. Not sure which actually fixed it as I did the tried and true method of testing by changing a lot of stuff all at once 
I did go so far as to tear one of the Spotlights down to see what was on the board to make sure I was using the correct controller. It’s a nice clean little board.
2 Likes
Those are really slick. That is tempting…
Last night I chopped one of the strings of 4 into two strings of 2. I used heat shrink and a piece of hot glue stick to seal the end of the one string. I have these running on the bench for testing.
What I’ll end up with is one string of 4 on the right side of the house, one string of 2 on the left side of the house and a second string of 2 that I can put out temporarily on holidays to light up yard ornaments. The left string of 2 will be a virtual string on the right side controller so there will be 6 lights for the effects to use across the house. I was able to figure out which effect and settings to use to make each LED on the string light up a different color.
I’m hoping to get everything installed this weekend, but my Saturday is already pretty busy.
1 Like
It’s been slow progress as my son’s extracurricular activities have taken over, but I’ve made quite a bit of progress.
The spotlight controllers are mounted on the house. I have a 24v→12v converter mounted to the right side of the house. This is driving the Eaves LEDs at 12v and the spotlights at 24v off of the 24v power supply. I need to make an extension to get from the spotlight controller down to the spotlights on the ground.
The left side of the house is a bit farther behind. I managed to accidentally send 24v into the 12v output on one of the converters and fried it. So I have to wait for a replacement to come in tomorrow to wire it up. Then I can make another extension to get to the last 2 spotlights on that side of the house.
I double checked the 24v PS I have and it should have more than enough amperage to push everything.
My son had a lot going on today and I had to play cheufure, but I got the house eaves working again and some of the spotlights done.
I need to play with colors and brightness. Everything is yellow for Thanksgiving.
5 Likes
My house doesn’t have any soffit so still trying to figure out how to hang up my goove outdoor lights too
1 Like
And done.
The spot lights on the right is a 4 led string. The lights on the left is only 2. For some reason the ones on the left are brighter. There’s more than enough current available for them to all have the same brightness. I’ve messed with the current adjustability on the wled, but it’s not helping.
Also, not all of the animations work on the spotlights. “Aurora” just causes them to turn off. But chase and other animations work fine.
The eaves are set to move the colors across the house.
More testing to come.
Funny. The picture makes it look the same.
3 Likes
Got a picture of what you’re working with?
Still fighting the Govee spot lights. I think I’m running into a current limited issue. The string with the spot lights doesn’t run as bright as the strings with 2. If I fiddle with the lights turning things on/off I can get all 4 to light up bright like they should. It makes me think something is shunting the current during start up and they don’t recover. I’m going to try adding some power injection in the middle of the string and see if that helps. While I’m at it, I’m going to rig the lights so that I can convert the string of 4 into two strings of 2 and run them off separate controllers.