After this I will stop, I swear 
Another offer from Aldi is the two small columns with 14 LEDs each, which are powered by a USB-A and therefore with 5V.
The columns are connected with USB-C style plugs but they are wired proprietarily.
I recycled the connection cables and also desoldered the IR receiver from the small pcb. I then wired everything to a ESP32 D1 mini. I sniffed all the buttons of the 24-button remote and assigned them to commands that are near what is printed on the remote control (ir.json attached…)
Mäcki
{
“0xF700FF”: {
“label”: “Brightness+”,
“rpt”: true,
“cmd”: “FX=~”
},
“0xF7807F”: {
“label”: “Brightness-”,
“rpt”: true,
“cmd”: “FX=~-”
},
“0xF740BF”: {
“label”: “Music”
},
“0xF7C03F”: {
“label”: “Power”,
“cmd”: “T=2”
},
“0xF720DF”: {
“label”: “R”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00FF0000”
},
“0xF7A05F”: {
“label”: “G”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H0000FF00”
},
“0xF7609F”: {
“label”: “B”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H000000FF”
},
“0xF7E01F”: {
“label”: “W”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=HFFFFFFFF”
},
“0xF710EF”: {
“label”: “Orange1”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00FF8000”
},
“0xF7906F”: {
“label”: “Green1”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H0000FF80”
},
“0xF750AF”: {
“label”: “Blue1”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H003230ac”
},
“0xF7D02F”: {
“label”: “Rainbow”,
“cmd”: “FP=~”
},
“0xF730CF”: {
“label”: “Orange2”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00cc7d06”
},
“0xF7B04F”: {
“label”: “Green2”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=HFFFFFFFF”
},
“0xF7708F”: {
“label”: “Lavender”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00ed63ff”
},
“0xF7F00F”: {
“label”: “Flash”,
“cmd”: “FX=1&SX=200”
},
“0xF708F7”: {
“label”: “Yellow2”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00ffb429”
},
“0xF78877”: {
“label”: “Light Blue”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00a3e2ff”
},
“0xF748B7”: {
“label”: “Purple”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00650040”
},
“0xF7C837”: {
“label”: “Strobe”,
“cmd”: “FX=1&SX=255”
},
“0xF728D7”: {
“label”: “Yellow”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00ffdd00”
},
“0xF7A857”: {
“label”: “Mid Blue”,
“cmd”: “FX=0&CL=H00426bff”
},"0xF76897": { "label": "Pink", "cmd": "FX=0&CL=H00FF80FF"},
“0xF7E817”: {
“label”: “Smooth”,
“cmd”: “FX=0”
}
}