I am putting a mountain feature wall in my son’s new bedroom.

Starting on the right, I want to run LEDs along the topmost mountains, switch to unlit cord/wire to go around the window, and then run another set of LEDs along the topmost mountain on the left. This should give a nice sunrise effect.

Do you know of an LED kit that can do this?

Thank you!

  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
    10·
    10 months ago

    You can use any old addressable LED strip (WS2811, 2812B, 2813, 2815, SK6812) for this. The harder part will be routing the data lines correctly with so many different branches. You could always run branches in parallel if effects being duplicated is acceptable. I’d use your photo to route a linear path from start to finish. You can do multiple paths as an ESP32 or controller like the DigOcta can do up to 8 separate outputs. Then you can control it all via WLED (which includes a sunrise effect).

    I dunno if lemmy has a WLED community but reddit has a pretty active one or you can use WLEDs native forums to ask more questions and get opinions from a group more focused toward the project you’re working on.

    Also you might consider removing those two short branches in the lower left corner of the window by moving that peak a little more up and to the left to help simplify things.

    • EssentialNPC@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      10 months ago

      I can work with this. Thank you!

      I am only running the lights along a channel in the uppermost boards that will make the topmost mountains, so I will not need a complex path. My goal is to have a sunrise-behind-the-mountains effect.

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
        4·
        10 months ago

        No problem. After reading some of the other responses I should point out that the LED strips I listed are all addressable RGB or RGBW. If you don’t want any color, then everything can be simplified (and cheaper) by using the 2-wire white LED strips, though I think using RGB/RGBW is way more fun and dynamic.