DIY running WLED. Got some strung up behind a pegboard in my office, which looks really good , and some pucks mounted along my roofline, which looks amazing WLED being 100% opensource (software AND hardware) has a pretty great dashboard, and an excellent HomeAssistant integration More on reddit.com

I just built a DIY LED Strip easily with ESPHome. I bought a NodeMCU and a package of jumper wires along with this LED Strip from Amazon . If you don't mind the long wait, you can easily get both of these items cheaper from a Chinese vendor like AliExpress or Banggood. I thought the prices were reasonable enough and I could get them right away so I went with Amazon. The strips have three wires in a small pin socket and two additional power wires for connecting longer runs with a separate power supply, but unless you're doing that you won't need to care about them. Clip 'em or just tape them off in case you change your mind. The red and black wires in the socket are power and ground. The green wire is for data. So there's only three connections you need to make to your NodeMCU; GRD, 5.5v power (VIN) and a data pin. In ESPHome, my setup looks like this: esphome: name: ledstrip_controller platform: ESP8266 board: nodemcuv2 wifi: ssid: !secret wifi_ssid password: !secret wifi_pass manual_ip: # Set this to the whatever you want the IP of the ESP to be. static_ip: 192.168.1.197 # Set this to the IP address of the router. gateway: 192.168.1.1 # The subnet of the network. 255.255.255.0 works for most. subnet: 255.255.255.0 # Enable logging logger: # Enable Home Assistant API api: # Enables you to update over Wifi ota: light: - platform: neopixelbus variant: WS2812X method: ESP8266_DMA pin: GPIO3 num_leds: 150 name: "Neopixel Light" effects: - random: - strobe: - flicker: - addressable_rainbow: - addressable_color_wipe: - addressable_scan: - addressable_twinkle: - addressable_random_twinkle: - addressable_fireworks: - addressable_flicker: After pasting this into the editor, save it and compile. Then WITHOUT THE LED STRIP PLUGGED INTO THE BOARD, upload the configs. The pin I am using for the data is also the RX pin, so if the strip is plugged in when you do your initial upload via the USB connection, the upload will fail. After your initial upload though, this won't be an issue again as subsequent updates will be done over WiFi. After the logs pass the first loop successfully, unplug from the ESPHome host, plug in the LED strip and then plug in your power source. In a couple of minutes, you should see the the node come back online in the ESPHome dash and you should be able to see the logs. After that, go to Configuration > Integrations in HA and click on ESPHome. In the blank, put in the IP that you specified for this node in the configs (in the example, it's 192.168.1.197) and submit. Bang! A controllable LED strip, with color selection and special effects is in Home Assistant in a matter of minutes. And I have never worked with lightstrips (outside of Hue) before and this was only the third NodeMCU that I ever touched; the first two are multisensors with Temp/Humidity/Light level and Motion. Prior to doing those, I never thought that DIY electronics were out of my reach. ESPHome made it so easy and the documentation is incredibly good for an open source project; some of the best I've seen. Hope this fanboy rant has helped you out. I just find it hard to contain my enthusiasm for ESPHome! More on reddit.com

What LEDs are you useing? My WS2812b’s do the same thing if I leave them powered for too long with no command to do anything. I just usually unplug them from the power supply and they fix them self’s More on reddit.com

Is your controller the 1 ID or 2 ID version? If it is the 2 ID version, the RGB and the W/WW are treated as two separate lights.

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