I have several beginner questions, I apologize for my lack of knowledge and that some of these may be very obvious to other users.
I am wondering what domestic automation board would be best for my requirements, as well as any additional things you think I might require.
How many LED strips can you connect to a single domestic automation board? Is there an attachment you can purchase to have multiple running off of one board? I have a van I am putting lighting in, and I need several strips attached within the wall as features and want a single board controller to utilize.
Is there a way to connect to the board through bluetooth as there is no wireless in my van, and don’t want to have to rely on hotspotting a network each time. I am guessing the antenna simply boosts wifi–would I need some separate bluetooth enabled extension like from arduino?
I’m also wanting to run LEDFX through them, is it as simple setting them up and running LEDFX through my device and having LEDFX detect the domestic automation board?
As you can tell this is not my area of expertise but I think I can slowly piece parts of it together…
I generally recommend the ESP32 boards for overall performance and additional features. And ESP8266 for smaller, Less performance things with less LEDs
**Unfortunately no, Bluetooth is not supported at the time. But you can access it via the Wled-AP. ** Theres a quite new feature available called ESP now. For example ESP Now via Wizmote. Which is quite Handy.
Yes, certainty it detects devices after scanning automatically.
Therefore easy going.
Yes, there are more options.
You can either adding multiple GPIOs or Chain em together but keep These things in mind, Click here for more information
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I myself would not go with any domestic automation boards.
Reason: They are a lot of $ for what they are and their microcontroller (Esp8266) is soldered to the board, so if something were to happen to it you are out of luck. There are several other options that have a removable controller, making it much easier to replace it if something were to fail.
WLED does not support Bluetooth. Maybe you could use an IR Remote?
For LEDFX you would need the device running LEDFX and the controller to be on the same network.
IR remote or (since recently) ESP-NOW remotes like “WiZ mote” allow pre-programmed remote control without WiFi. IR will require an IR sensor (like TSOP range of sensors) to be attached to ESP.