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Published inSep 2023
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Marco Carvalho
Marco Carvalho
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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Configuring the LED strip controller using the WLED software application

You should not face many issues configuring and testing the WLED application. The application offers a lot of configuration options and it is very intuitive. You need to have the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module connected to the power supply used to power the LED strip controller. We will first connect our project to the home Wi-Fi network, and after we will go over the main configurations to be done using the WLED application. We will cover these two subjects in the next subsections.

Configuring the Wifi network in the WLED application

Once the power is connected, you will need to use the WLED software application using your web browser. Follow these steps to configure the LED strip controller:

  1. Using your cell phone or your computer, check for the WLED-AP Wi-Fi network. Connect to it using the default password, wled1234.
  2. Once connected to the WLED-AP Wi-Fi network, if you are using a computer and the web...
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Marco Carvalho

Marco Carvalho is an experienced home automation hobbyist engineer, electrical engineer, and technician. Pursuing his passion for electronics and embedded systems, he created an embedded home automation task scheduler using X10 Home Automation devices in 2006. Nowadays, he uses wireless electronic devices and the Home Assistant software to build different smart home automation applications. As an MSc in Computer Science, Marco has worked with several well-known companies such as IBM, Jabil, Phillips, and Hexagon where he extended his support in development and manufacturing of electronic products. At the time of this publication, he is the Director of Engineering for Apex Microtechnology, where he is involved in the development of high power, high precision analog components.
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