Hi there. Is there any way to force a Gledopto or an Athom WLED controller to work with staircase usermod? I tried to install/setup it, but there are many questions due to my poor knowledge on this topic. Is there any full-box/ready-made hardver with wled staircase usermod install? Couldn’t find any other description for this usermod how to install it, because I have stucked in the first part of the process.
Great project!
I’m going to replace my simple led in my staircase !
someone have recommended “shopping list”?
which esp board?
what addr/essable led type?
wire cutter?
Thank you
No you will have to compile it yourself. I had never done it before and succeeded, so it should be doable.
Hello, thank you for the project.
Anyone try with radar sensor like ld2410 ?
I got this working with HR-501 sensors. Now trying to figure out why JSN-SR04T sensors aren’t working.
In case this helps anyone:
PSU: Mean Well LRS-200-5
LED: sk6812’s
DigQuad Board
14 steps, 74 leds per strip/segment/step
I did not power each step individually, followed Quindors 4/8/4 power injection model.
Below is my wiring diagram…
You can see them working on this reddit post.
Did you figure this out? I’m trying to do the same thing - I set a playlist to ID 1 (wipe+solid) and set it as the boot up present - but it’s still only on/off the full strip once motion is detected.
So I got my ultrasonic JSN-SR04T sensors to measure distances, confirmed after adding debugging code to the usermod and viewing readings in Serial Monitor. I can’t for the life of me figure out why they aren’t triggering the animation. I double checked the trigger and echo pins, usermod is enabaled, both top and bottom sensors are enabled, toggle power on/off is enabled, max distance set (so that no object is detected as it hits the opposite wall). Isn’t the animation supposed to trigger whenever it registers a value lower than the max value set - aka, someone walking through the path of the sensor, therefore registering a shorter distance than the max value?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can you please share the wiring diagram? I ask because I don’t have access to my staircase and when I open up the dry wall to wire, I want to make sure I do proper wiring - kind of future proofing within reasonable limits.
Is it sufficient to run a 5-wire cable (of good gauge) to one end of each stair? (plus cables for sensors). So for my 10 steps, I will have 10 runs of the cable (each with 5-wires) end in a junction box.
OR
Should I run 5-wire cable to each end of the stair?
OR
Do something entirely different?
Apologies if this is too rudimentary but please oblige.
Thanks much in advance.
@SentiQ do you still have this board? I’ve created one myself, but I used generic i2c level shifter modules from amazon, which I later discovered are not suitable for driving addressable led strip as they are too slow. I can see you have proper 74HCT125 level shifter breakout board ready footprint. My board kind of works however, but I’m afraid when installed in real world with long wires it won’t work anymore. Also, I had to solder a pullup resistor to this i2c level shifter board (parallel to already present pull-up) to make a stronger pullup. When I touch this resistor with my finger, led strip does all kinds of crazy stuff 
Anyway, where are you from and would you be willing to send a spare board to me (Slovenia) for a fee (ps.: I just realized you are directly connecting echo pins from sensors to esp32. Do you have any external level shifters aswell? - those sensors put 5V back and esp32 is 3.3V).
Now to my real problem - I also can’t get ultrasonic sensors to work (HC SR04). Before I continue, I should tell that somehow the other day, sensors were working normally - at least by looking json response (true and false by putting hand infront of them) so I suppose wiring is ok at least. But now everyting stopped - I could still get sensor to trigger few times, but then everything hanged like it was always “true”. Now, nothing works anymore. Really weird as I didn’t change anything electrically. But I suspect something is causing my esp32 to hang - probably sensors somehow - I suppose those are some Chineese kick offs
I’m using this board.
I was also using those generic level shifters for interfacing sensors which should be find I suppose as those sensors don’t go beyond 400kHz, but just for good measure, I removed them and directly connected esp32 gpio to trigger pin and use a good old resistor voltage divider for echo feedback to safely shitfing 5V output from sensor to 3.3V level for esp32. All that without any success however, so something else have to be the problem. I even went an extra mile and tested both sensors with Arduino and some quick sample code and I can confirm sensors are working fine with Arduino (reading values on serial monitor). I’m out out ideas here and as they say, more brain, more knowledge and I’m asking you guys for help - what should I try? Could this esp board also be the problem somehow? Should I try setting it up for PIR sensors and simulating them with buttons?
Btw, this is my pcb (attached) - I’m using rj45 connector for sensors.
Hi,
I have today installed WS2812B LED lights on my stairs. The issue I am facing is that the stairs stays constantly on and animated staircase does not work.
I total of 13 stairs and have total 697 leds across 13 stairs.
I have compiled wled using this link: https://wled-compile.github.io.
In options I have selected following:
Step 1: Wled source: original Aircoookie Release v.0.15.3 Microcontroller: ESP32dev(Recommended for ESP32)
Step2: nothing Step 3: nothing Step 4: Animated Staircase
After this, I compiled it and installed on ESP32.
I have then created segment for 13 stairs and connected PIR sensors to the board.
I can change colour and patter for each segment. This means they work fine. However, the animated stairs does not work. Once activated nothing happens. Stairs stays on.
Any help is appreciated.
