WLED is without a doubt THE BEST controller for your LED needs.
Programmed to run on most ESP devices it can control hundreds of NEO-PIXELs LEDs, those individually addressable LED strips & strings to produce thousands for colours and many MANY effects.
The trouble is, these ESP devices and development boards, without some additional hardware, don't control the power to the strips - leaving your PSUs running 24/7.
Even when not lit, these LED 'Pixels' still draw around 1mA each and when you consider the average strip has 300 of these LEDs on, that's about a 1/3 of an Amp.
Now consider many of these strips adorning your home all year round just sitting there during the day and only being lit at night or even just for the holidays, you'll quickly see that's a HUGE waste of power.
⚡In fact, it's over SIX THOUNSAND Hours a year ! ⚡
Enter my tutorial...
Installing WLED on a Sonoff Basic has some massive advantages. First, it's compact and a nicely cased unit with convenient screw terminals. However, more importantly... It has a built in Mains switching Relay!
In this tutorial I show you have to use a Sonoff Basic to not only control your LEDs but with the on-board relay to shut them all down COMPLETELY when not in use!
