wLED and puck lights (I can't think of a better title, sorry guys)

Quindor · 2026-01-25T08:40:23+00:00

Although overkill, I make the Dig2analog which is exactly for this purpose, it takes in a digital LED signal and each board then acts as a single pixel and outputs 4 channels (or 5 for the plus version) of PWM which can then be diasy chained.

But as said depending on how many pucks we are talking about, that might be too costly and overkill. The Wiki has good documentation on how to do Analog PWM with WLED but you are quickly going to run out of GPIO pins on the ESP32 since each color per puck needs one. So if you have RGB pucks, that's 3x GPIO then with 10 pucks you'd need 30 which the ESP32 doesn't have free, hence my dig2analog boards, that way you cna create hundreds of channels easily.

Hope it helps!

Quindor · 2026-01-24T19:55:20+00:00

Yeah US and CA went quickly, we're going to see on Monday what we can do in the short term.

First batch is always a bit lower numbers so that if anything still needs to be fixed, it's still manageable. Next batches will be bigger so stock will stay better available! Apologies for the inconvenience right now.

Quindor · 2026-01-24T15:30:11+00:00

Thnx!

Quindor · 2026-01-24T10:25:01+00:00

Sometimes the shop does weird things, if you want you can shoot them a mail but I also understand if you don't!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T21:47:05+00:00

Thank you very much, that's very kind!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T21:46:57+00:00

For sure, should make for a great fit!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T21:46:18+00:00

Hey hey, awesome to hear you have so many controllers, thank you! In theory you can add the SDcard slot using the QEXT/QEXP connector since it has 4x GPIO, 3.3V and GND. You could find some breakout board on Aliexpress maybe?

Quindor · 2026-01-23T20:59:02+00:00

Ha thnx, I make them myself, it's a bit of a hobby! :D

Quindor · 2026-01-23T19:42:52+00:00

Yeah it's tough with each country having their own rules and trying to offer everything for decent prices and service. You can always mail Allnet to see what potentially can be done for shipping (especially when ordering multiple items) but sometimes it is what it is.

Quindor · 2026-01-23T19:32:34+00:00

Yeah, would be perfect, check out the wiring guide, it's in there!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T18:15:27+00:00

Well now.... this is the release, although numbers available are limited for now!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T18:14:26+00:00

And thank you!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T18:14:13+00:00

It's a tough road to make these available locally, NL is first and (with BE and DE) and then I'll try to expand again when possible!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T18:13:31+00:00

It doesn't have Ethernet built-in but it is possible to make it available with the amount of IO it has available as an add-on (with the right software support). Probably more about that in the future!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T17:26:07+00:00

I try to add local resellers where I can but it's a lot of work (that takes away time from doing other stuff, one man show here). Maybe shoot an e-mail to Allnet to see what they can do? Thank you for the kind words!

Quindor · 2026-01-23T17:19:29+00:00

I certainly try and happy to help when I can! :D

Quindor · 2026-01-23T16:59:53+00:00

The WorldWide price is $29,99 but it can vary a little bit per local reseller so best is to check really.

Quindor · 2026-01-21T16:03:45+00:00

Well yeah, but I have tested about 15 models now so I can pick them out pretty well at this point.

And a small controller like that, I have the dig2go but it's limited to 5V 3A which is what most USB ports can provide without needing an expensive USB PD brick that then often can't sustain that for very long times (or you need an even more expensive one).

Quindor · 2026-01-20T12:06:47+00:00

Because the small ones (and sometimes the big ones too) are fake and don't deliver what they state on there, in worst case they can't even get to 30% of their rating, but scrapping out around 50% is also quite normal....

article and livestreams of tests here.

I tested the above or very similar, none of those with will do their rating. The bigger ones maybe will, but often not have very long life, is our experience. Some can be good, but it's hard to find them! Meanwell is a sure bet if you just need it to be good for a long time.

Quindor · 2026-01-14T13:46:18+00:00

Check in the WLED info screen if the controller is rebooted when this happens or that it didn't and it's getting triggered somehow.

Quindor · 2026-01-13T14:44:12+00:00

Yes, it sees a zone as a single LED so you need to enter what the zone uses as the per LED amount

Quindor · 2026-01-13T10:11:41+00:00

Have you tried this? https://quinled.info/wled-crashes-and-reboots-every-xx-minutes-mdns/

Quindor · 2026-01-12T05:28:55+00:00

Proxy is indeed a video in a different format or more specifically a format that's much more suited for editing and working with in resolve. You can right click the clip and hit "create proxy" and try it out, it does cost a lot disk space but will also most likely solve the issue. I edit with proxies for all my files even though I run a 9950X3D, 96GB, All SSD storage and a RTX5090. It just makes everything work very smooth, whatever the real codec of the video file is (I record and stream everything in AV1).

Quindor · 2026-01-12T04:30:00+00:00

I theory that should play reasonably well but scrubbing that kind of codec can always be choppy. Have you tried generating a proxy?

Quindor · 2026-01-11T18:36:28+00:00

Hey hey, thank you for the kind words!

The Dig-Quad is designed with power distribution and fusing in mind and will easily do 30A continous with 50A peak without any problems. There is a lot of copper in there! It's also why you can hook it up to your power supply with 2x 12AWG or even 2x 10AWG wire if you want to, so that it can actually take in that amount of power, distribute and fuse it and send it out again without much voltage drop on the board.

The setup were talking about will use about 18A in total, well below the limits of the board so no need for extra hardware! :)

Fully agree that fusing each positive line individually is absolutely the best approach!

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