Hello,
Was wondering if someone might have any experience in hooking up a set of these generic string lights to WLED. I attached a picture of the the leds in each bulb, there are 5 wires, black, white, red, green, and blue. I hooked it up the way I thought it should work, but the lights only cycle through colors, and there is no way to turn them off from WLED.
Those appear to be ws2815 LEDs with a white LED. You could try flashing and connecting a ESP32 or ESP2866 to the string. What voltage is the existing power supply? I have used similar lights that required 12VDC. I connected the power supply and ESP grounds together, and put a 1000 microfarad capacitor across the power line, and a 470 ohm resistor between the data line, a bidirectional converter, then the ESP. Likewise, I connected D1 to the protected data line and D2 to ground. It worked well, but having to power the ESP with 5VDC and stepping down from 12VDC is kind of a pain. I skipped the white LED.
The existing power supply is 5v 2amps.
This is how I currently have it wired up. The esp32 powers on, I can change the settings, but the lights just change colors rapidly, if I change it to another effect from “solid” it changes to a random solid color, I also can’t power the lights off from WLED. It’s plugged into a 5v power supply out of frame.
Did you ever figure this config out? I’m about ready to head down the same path with some old strings we have, and I’m having the exact same issues of blinking random lights
Sadly no, I gave up on trying to get them to work.
