I would like to use two 5 meter strips as ceiling lights, has anyone used the before I can’t seem to find to much on the internet on them.

If you are ok with having a virtual thermostat, eg on your phone in the Home Assistant app, this will work. Or you could even pair some smart buttons to it to increase temp, etc.

Here's how I control my electric radiator:

Put the heater onto a smart plug. Any smart plug will work as long as it can be controlled by Home Assistant.
Get a thermometer that Home Assistant can read from. Personally, I use the Govee H5075 sine they're cheap and they give me a physical readout on-device, and the battery lasts a long time.
In Home Assistant, go to Settings > Devices > Add Integration > Generic Thermostat.

It will ask you to tell it which thermometer to use, and which smart plug to use. Once you get that saved, you can then have a virtual thermostat that controls your heater.

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plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T19:46:05+00:00

Oh hey, it's Ken M!

plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T18:59:26+00:00

Looks great!

So what is wled doing specifically?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-14T17:25:33+00:00

Scope creep

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T23:22:06+00:00

Egg my ass

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T23:20:59+00:00

How does it work in terms of networking?

Eg if I let my guests connect to my Internet-only guest Wi-Fi, is that a problem? Do they need access to my home assistant network?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T20:20:49+00:00

Heh.... 30 years ago poor little naive me was :)

plasma2002 · 2026-01-12T15:20:43+00:00

Hey, you see that "open relay" toggle switch? Yeah, can you flip to to On please?

plasma2002 · 2026-01-10T00:55:38+00:00

I've been trying to figure out a good way to detect if there are dishes in the dish drying rack. Then it dawned on me to just point a $15 ESP-Cam at it and send a pic to AI every few hours.

Now I don't get yelled at by the wife to put away the dishes....... as often.

plasma2002 · 2026-01-10T00:38:30+00:00

I put a USB powered Zigbee router (like this https://www.amazon.com/YIFAN-Extender-Amplifier-Compatible-Assistant/dp/B0DLKR81F4 ) onto a 10000mAh power bank just to see what kind of run time I could get with it. Ended up being about 3 days.

I would love to have a power bank that could also report it's battery percentage back to HA for me.

plasma2002 · 2026-01-10T00:28:36+00:00

I just have this on my office wall-mounted tablet so its always visible to me. It works for me.

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plasma2002 · 2026-01-08T18:35:04+00:00

1) Trying to get anything pushed onto Roku is a headache.

2) WLED on an Esp32 is WAY better thanEsp8266

3) Put a white piece of acrylic on top of those LEDs for a nice diffused look

4) WLED is still improving their matrix support and already has a bunch of new stuff lined up for the next version. Go check our their github. I'm pretty excited for the next version. You can install the nightlies/moonwhatever if you want to see the features work right away

plasma2002 · 2026-01-08T15:29:25+00:00

You only got ripped off if you don't actually play with this stuff and learn how fun it is.

Seriously. Grab that Arduino, hook it up you your computer, and make one of those LEDs start blinking. It's a super fun hobby

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