Hello,
I have a question about segments. I split my stip on wled into 3 segments (0 - 112 / 112 - 176 / 176 - 291). It worked but my question is, if I set some animation, it will work as 3 separated segments. I want it work as 1 segment.
I tried to create a 4th segment (0 - 291), but when I did this, the other segments stopped working.
What did I do wrong?
Thanks
Segments cannot overlap. You would need to delete them to access the whole strip. Best done in latest version with Presets.
Got it.
But is there somehow that I can select just part of the strip on Presets as I can’t overlap on Segments?
I select the entire strip on segments (0 - 291), but how can I choose just part of the strip?
As I said, I want when I set an effect / animation, it flows in all strip, not looking like 3 separated strips, and can turn on just part of the strip too.
How can I do this?
Thanks @tonyno
If you want effects to be along the entire strip, you can only have one segment that contains the entire strip. Set that up, save as a Preset.
You can then set up your three segments for other things and save that as another Preset.
It worked…
Thanks again @tonyno
Thank you for this! I had the same problem.
Sorry to revive an old thread, but I came here in search of the same answers. Can you overlap segments in a more satisfactory way yet?
Some background to my problem, I’ve designed and built my own controller with my Dad, and he’s made his own software which can do this really nicely. But I just tried WLED and the sheer number of amazing effects blows his out the water.
However, I’ve got a strip on my landing which goes over all 3 bedrooms, and in his software I had 4 “segments”. 1 for the entire strip, and 1 above each door which had a higher importance, so I could have a status light above each door, but still tell the first segment to light the rest of the unused strip for functional light without missing what was being shown in the smaller status segments.
Is there a better way to achieve this than using presets in WLED? Because to my understanding, I’d have to create every variant of status lights combo as it’s own preset, and work out how to set the correct one. Rather than just turning the required ones on/off.
Hope this makes sense, thanks.
@tonyno Segments can overlap TOP Down
set your entire strip a color and make a second segment choose some led and turn them into other color
seg0 like 0-291 green
seg1 50-100 red
this also workes for diferent EFFECTS at the same time seg0 Blink seg1 chase
In WLED you typically want to keep your segments separate.
Overlapping segments can cause weird issues that are hard to diagnose.
When saving multiple independent segments that you want to “combine as one” for some presets, use the Checked Segments Only options. That way, your preset doesn’t overwrite all the other displayed segments when it fires.
I’d suggest you create independent segment for each of 3 doors.
For “all doors” save a preset that has Seg1,Seg2,Seg3 checked. Any effects and colours will apply to all 3 at the same time.
For door 1 save a preset with Seg1 checked. Effects and colours will only apply to that door leaving the other 2 alone.
You can do the same for the other 2 doors.
PS: In the future, start your own topic rather than taking on. It makes it much easier for others to follow solutions.
Hi,
Apologies, wasn’t sure of the best thing to do, will bear that in mind in future.
Thanks for the deeper explanation, I think it’s slightly clearer what I can do now. Previous explanations on this thread lead me to think of doing almost the exact opposite approach, so hopefully this will be clearer for others who find this post too 
Check the JSON API section in KB. You do not need to use “state” to create a preset.