Last year, I bought a roll of white WS2811 LEDs, known by names like “Horse Race” or “Running Water”, featuring groups of 15 white LEDs. The strip came with an optional controller that functions as intended. However, I’m facing difficulties controlling the strip with WLED. I started with the WS2811 White option and progressing through the rest, but I haven’t been able to get any output. Are these LED strips currently supported?
Those strips are standard WS281x protocol devices, but the R,G,B channels are replaced with CW, NW, WW LEDs.
Try the “WS2811 White” protocol when configuring in Config->LED Preferences.
Standard WS281x should work as well, although the different types of white will map to R,G, and B.
All the usual wiring/power/data considerations apply.
Make sure you’re feeding the correct GPIO output to the Data In on the strip.
You may need a levelshifter.
Make sure you’ve got proper ground between the ESP power and the strip power.
Thank you for the response. I have tried "WS2811 White and WS281x, with no luck. GPIO output is correct and grounds are good, but I will double check all of those things again. I have not tried a level shifter, but I do have a few here somewhere, I will try that once i confirm everything else looks good.