Hello. I’m using home assistant for a couple of years now but this is my first post on this forum. One of my first hardware projects was an RBG controller for analog led strips under my bed. I have lots of these cobbled together projects and i’m replacing them one by one with more durable sollutions. Therefor I created my own light controller to use in a couple of places. I’m wanted to create a very verisatile controlle so that I can use it in many different occasions. I’m looking for ideas to put in the next itteration. The current version is based on an esp32 and has:
wifi
bluetooth
compatible with esphome
5 channels for the lights
dimmable status lights for the channel so you can see what channels are supposed to be on but you can dim or turn of the status light off so they aren’t visible under a desk or something like that
bmp280 temperature, humidity and barometric sensor
general purpuse two pin header for connecting relay or other component. You can choose between 12 or 3.3 volt with a solder jumper
Cool controller. I have a few ideas how to extend this, but in principle you already checked all the boxes ;-).
WLED effect support: WLED offers a ton of effects a lot of which do not make sense in a “dumb” stripe, but some are cool even with those stripes
beefier mosfets/connectors/copper PCB connections for more current
a microphone (and amp) for music effects
mounting holes
a beefy connector and mountig holes for the “general purpuse two pin header for connecting relay or other component. You can choose between 12 or 3.3 volt with a solder jumper”
Maybe tht mosfets, so that you could epoxy the whole thing to be perfectly waterproof and still have the metal cooling surfaces to bolt to something … so you can have underwater lights
Just some thoughts, this is very nice as it already is!
