Does anybody have experience with using WS2812 light as a white light? Can it produce warm white. Is the tint reasonable?
If you want Warm White in a strip then look at the SK6812RGBW (AKA NeoPixel RGBW) strips.
I have a couple of sets SK6812RGBW strips driven by NodeMCUs, which give a very nice result. The Warm-White elements in each LED give a much more pleasing tone, while still being able to set patterns and hues with the RGB elements.
RGBW pattern followed by pure RGB Rainbow.
Beware that FastLED doesn’t (yet) support RGBW, so I’ve had to adapt the Adafruit examples to get this working. Otherwise this works nicely as an MQTT light based on the BRUH Automation examples.
Hi epsylon,
That looks awesome! I’m trying to do the same thing, but am running into problems adapting the BRUH ESP_MQTT_Digital_LEDs sketch to use Adafruit’s library instead of FastLED. Would you be willing to share your code?
Hello, This is exactly what I have been looking for as I hate the tinge you get when trying to set a white for the RGB strips, but fastled still doesn’t support the RGBW strips still.
Do you have your code on github and would you share pretty please? 