Addressable LED Strip

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Hi All
Sorry if this is a repeat but I am having great difficulty in locating the correct pieces of kit I need.

I wish to create an effective LED strip that has the quality of the LIFX neon flex. that is you cannot see any dots just a lit silicon rope strip. I want it to run this strip up my stairwell so that it travels upwards or downwards like its flowing.

This I will hopefully achieve with esphome/esp32 (or something similar) however I cannot for the life of me find a suitable LED strip. Everything Ive seen has still the visibility of ‘dots’ even after putting in a diffuser.

If anyone can point me in the right direction for Any kit to do this project I would be muchly gratefull.

Thankyou

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I would love to be “updated” on this matter as well :wink:

The way I know is to increase the led density, and add a proper diffuser, but I’ve seen “COB” leds popping up lately that seem very much adequate, but it seems at the cost of individual led control?

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Surely if you want the quality of LIFX neon flex, why not buy LIFX neon flex? Or am I missing something?

I am sure if you want run it on ESP32 it will be easy enough to do that.

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AE is full of those, can’t say about quality compared to lifx though…
https://
aliexpress.com/item/1005008476486485.html

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What a nice idea, I would love to have that for my stairs as well. If you happened to find the right straps, please do an update.

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Thankyou all for the input.

@Arh my understanding is that while the lifx neon flex is smooth (I love it) it is not addressable. I know there are themes (not of which Im after) but I believe you cant just cut into it and start writing code to each pixel

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The video makes it look like they are addressable. I have no knowledge of them.

If so you will be able to control them from an esp32, but its not really the point I guess. Why not juts buy a cheap strip from aliexpress just buy the one with the most LEDs per meter.