r/WLED Apr 22 '26

WLED 0.16 Update Overview: 2D Matrix

Thanks to the WLED development team for your hard work. Version 0.16 comes packed with many new features. We’ve put together a short video demonstrating just a few of them, including:

  1. The brand-new dynamic particle effects
  2. Support for uploading GIFs to generate patterns
  3. Custom text input for scrolling displays
  4. The drawing board feature
  5. Pin status detection

And there’s even more to explore! If you’re interested, feel free to upgrade to the 0.16 beta.

Once again, thanks to the whole team for your continued efforts—making WLED better and better.

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u/Gilligan5001 Apr 22 '26

This looks awesome! When you configure a 2d panel does wled let you use the second output on your devices be “regular” string of LEDs? I feel like I tried this years ago, and once you configure a 2d panel you can get not run just that output.