I want to use WLED to control a set of LED strips. But I also want tunable whites with good CRI, where I can adjust the color temperature. 99% of the time I want white illumination that matches the other white lights in the room, but I want to also have “party mode” done with WLED and addressable strips.
All of the RGBWW strips I find are controlled by five analog PWM channels, so the entire strip is doing the same thing.
Of course, I could just use two parallel LED strips and two controllers.
It seems that I can also adjust the white color temperature of an RGBW strip by mixing in some R or B, but I have some doubts about CRI and lighting quality.
My goal is a very good quality white, and at the same time, the flexibility of an addressable strip driven by WLED.
I’ve experimented with a number of bulbs and strips trying to create ‘theater like’ lighting for bathroom mirror setups to allow people to see their ‘look’ in various lighting scenes. Mixed success at best. I’ve not found a Zigbee off the shelf controller that allows mixing RGB’s with both whites. I’ve been able to get some useful functionality with Tasmota, espHome and WLED. WLED does seem to offer the most control, but for me (other than custom) the least options for lighting devices. Getting accurate lighting scenes and CRI does take a lot of knowledge in this field. And mixing different devices (little commonality in different LEDs and drivers) multiples the complexity. Do be aware of power requirements, as I found most all hardware was not rated to power all 5 channels at or near full brightness. Good hunting.