112: Red Light, Green Light
Self-Hosted
Installing and Customizing Neo pixel LED Light Strips with WLED
This chapter explores the ease and features of WLED for controlling LED light strips. It delves into creating a custom night light and using automation for routines, as well as recommending a convenient product for strip installation.
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Alex shares a new build integrating WLED, and Chirs reviews hardware that can get you started with WLED in 45 seconds.
Then, one last big update on the Year of Voice and our thoughts on self-hosting push notifications.
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Links:
- ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
- 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
- Zigbee Door/Window Sensor Chris Uses in his Fridge — The Centralite micro door and window sensor detects the opening and closing of doors and windows.
- Zooz 700 Series Z-Wave Plus Water Leak XS Sensor — Place it under your appliances to monitor for leaks discreetly. It's OK if the device is splashed with water but it can't be fully submerged so keep that in mind when choosing the installation location.
- Alex Kretzschmar on Masto — Just made my daughter a new nightlight running WLED.
- Setup WLED in 45 Seconds! NO TOOLS NEEDED - YouTube — WLED Tutorial Video
- Domestic Automation's WLED Pre-Installed Board — For use with Individually Addressable LEDs, which allow each LED to display a different color at the same time. Hundreds of animated effects can be displayed such as: “Android”, “Rainbow Runner”,“Twinklefox” and over a hundred more.
- Domestic Automation LLC — Want to light up your home and wow your guests? Brighten up your space with some dazzling lights in a variety of colors and entertaining effects!
- Home of the QuinLED LED Controllers — This website is about DIY WiFi controllable LED dimmers (Analog) and controllers (Digital) combined with lots of general information about LEDs and LED strip!
- Push notifications can be used to track who you contact - The Washington Post — Government investigators in the United States use push notification data to track individuals, according to Sen. Ron Wyden. Apple and Google are prohibited from discussing this surveillance technique by the Justice Department.
- Apple Requires Only a Subpoena to Turn Over Push Notification Tokens to Law Enforcement; Google Requires a Court Order — Update, 11 December 2023: Apple has updated its guidelines and now requires a court order as well.
- Year of the Voice - Chapter 5 - Home Assistant — The ESPHome team has been hard at work adding support for the S3-BOX-3, including the ability to customize the display! Check out the S3-BOX-3 tutorial to get started.
- ESP32-S3-BOX-3 voice assistant - tutorial — This tutorial will guide you to turn an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 into a Home Assistant voice assistant.
- ESP32-POE - Open Source Hardware Board — ESP32-PoE is an ESP32-powered WIFI/BLE/Ethernet development board with Power-Over-Ethernet feature. It is the perfect addition to any project that requires connectivity.
- Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
- SCALE 21x
- Texas Linux Festival 2024
- LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Ready or not
- SSH 112 Boost Barn — Thank you to everyone who supports the show!
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