WLED recognizing other boards running WLED

Hi,

I am just starting out. What is the basic underline method WLED uses to recognize other ESP32/86 boards running WLED.

Thanks

MikeZ

Are you talking about the phone app or syncing between WLED installs?

Hi hugg-d1,

yes. From the videos I have seen, users appear to be able to control different WLED installs from the one app.

MikeZ

Hi,

the WLED app (or any other device/service on the local network) uses mDNS (also called Bonjour and Zeroconf) to discover WLED instances with the _wled._tcp service type.

Additionally, WLED devices can discover and list other WLED instances via a UDP protocol. You can find these in the instance list (“Nodes” button in the UI, or on mobile devices, “Instance list” in the Info tab)

Hi Aircookie,

Thank you.

MikeZ