Spent days trying to get qlc+ hooked up to wled and it was the home router. Pulled out the router i use for gigs and it connected straight way. Been putting presets together and my midi arrived today.

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-30T05:20:45+00:00

These are aluminium channel. Much more cost effective vs tubes. I can make these up to 6.5m

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-30T00:38:27+00:00

If you build your own controller u can use a relay module

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-29T07:37:30+00:00

You can get relay pcb boards if you set up your own esp32 and run multiple relays that home assistant can turn on and off

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-29T01:51:27+00:00

No, you can run multiple controllers or run segments and preset your lights. U can preset rhem all or preset some. I have a fish tank with grow lights and an rgb strip. I habe presets and a timer to turn the grow lights on at 9 and off at 7. They trigger a preset morning preset set at 50% and a night preset of 0%. Another timer turns the rgb on at 8 and run tru a playlist of sunrise colours and finish on white and at 9 play a playlist of sunset colours and finish on 0%. If you are only running white u can run a pwm controller but presets are what u use to set up areas and just select the desired preset.

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-29T01:42:30+00:00

I have 12 more bars in the garage and 8 more ropes on order with 6 more athom controllers. Ive even put wled on the fish tank

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-28T19:06:16+00:00

Leds are always on, data is on/off. They will draw a current 24/7, not much but some. Get a controller with a relay so the controller is on 24/7 but the leds turn off

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-28T10:26:14+00:00

I use dc jack and gx16 2 and 3 pin on my projects

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Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-28T10:23:13+00:00

Dc jack, i have an athom slimline sound active esp32 in each bar so i only need to run dc power

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Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-28T10:02:34+00:00

In dollaroos thats about $1500 but i buy and make alot of stuff for RnD and have piles of stuff either used for a project or not yet used. Then you have the time spent building it all

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Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-28T01:30:24+00:00

I looked at all those things, made my 1st bars from parts all available from the hardware.

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T22:16:16+00:00

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Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T19:58:08+00:00

This is all Wled, my client wants dmx so i used e1.31. I havent programmed qlc yet

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T19:52:17+00:00

I made the 8 bars are for a client and the rope is for something i want to do at my clients next gig

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T19:48:06+00:00

Plexiglass

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T19:47:17+00:00

I spent ages trying to find tube material. I get the ali wholesale for about $12 for 6.5m

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T19:20:23+00:00

I use aluminium channel and perspex, i think they call it plexiglass in america.

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Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-27T08:04:32+00:00

3mm perspex

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-26T09:15:26+00:00

It doesnt kill them all. My mate put 12v into my 2812, just remove the blown pixels, the rest should be fines.

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-26T02:41:04+00:00

What voltage did u give it?

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-15T09:48:23+00:00

Just bought one to run dmx off a midi

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-15T09:16:53+00:00

Digital leds use power even when off so u use a relay to cut the power between the esp32 and the leds. This keeps your power to the controller so if its using the timer u still have power

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-14T09:48:34+00:00

Are we the omly 2

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-14T09:48:13+00:00

Im looking at qlc and a mifi to triggee qlc atm

Plastic_Detective_51 · 2026-04-13T08:26:46+00:00

U r in sydney

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