LED Strip for Office Space (In Closet)

[gray tide]

Hello, I am repurposing a small closet to put my desk setup into and want to use an LED strip for lighting. I am currently looking at a couple options such as RGBW vs RGBCW and have also been looking at WLED solutions. I care about the white output from the strip and want to make sure I am getting something that can give good output there but also can support RGB.

Can anyone suggest a strip/controller combo that works entirely locally? I am comfortable using WiFi based or Zigbee based controllers.

[crystal wigeon]

check out Athom they make a bunch of stuff running opensource firmwares. esphome/tasmota/WLED not all devices available in all firmwares but some are. pick your requirements and firmware 🙂

[jovial stream]

as far as i know the esp32 is preferred over the 8266, right?

[crystal wigeon]

depends on the use I guess. in general probably true. but if your only driving some LED's I don't think it really matters.
this said, most devices are moving over to esp32 as the 8266 is end of life.

[jovial stream]

i am running a Quinled Dig Uno as controller atm, maybe that could be of use here too. https://quinled.info/pre-assembled-quinled-dig-uno/

[crystal wigeon]

I got one of THESE recently to drive some cheap outdoor strip I got hold of with a shitty driver. i havent deployed yet but it seems to work

[jovial stream]

haven't used before, but not compatible for my setup.

[bleak atlas]

Smlight have a WLED controller with good reviews

[gray tide]

Yeah I got an Athom controller coming in and got this strip https://a.co/d/gOwO0Vg