#Customiziable light strips - in terms of length and power delivery

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willow pine
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Hello,

I am new to Home Assistant and looking to "smartify" my house. I want to add some light strips to my bookshelves just to add some extra visibility. Since my bookshelves compartments are of varying size, I would love to be able to cut and use smaller pieces. The only other requirement I have is to be able to power the multiple pieces together - so that I am not plugging in 6-7 plugs per bookshelf.

Thank you for the help!

plush wigeon
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There's various ways of solving that.

Personally I'd either:

  1. Buy a digital strip and separate controller to use with WLED, setting each shelf as a segment. Then you have one controller and can turn each shelf on/off separately. You can inject power to extend the strip to slightly bonkers distances.
  2. Buy an analogue strip and separate controller(s) (eg Gledopto's Pro Zigbee range). Each controller will power a single strip - the length of which will depend on the voltage you pick and the number of LEDs/m.
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Buying the strips separately allows you to decide where the price/quality tradeoff sits for you. You can splash the cash on some really high CRI strips, or cheap out on some basic RGB strips with the intent on upgrading later (or not)

willow pine
plush wigeon
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Well, there isn't, but HA doesn't care 😉

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You can buy LED controllers and connect supported LED strips to them