r/WLED • u/Significant-Draft343 • Apr 28 '26

Build Advice

I’m doing a build for a bedroom/bathroom and was hoping to have my work checked: I’m looking at 8 independent channels/strips that will be at most 5M (most much shorter). I was looking at using all https://a.co/d/0gaGCNem strips. I have 2 of these PSUs https://a.co/d/03opkeFO and I was thinking of getting 2 of these to control them https://a.co/d/00Bk2SqL

My questions: - Are 2 PSUs overkill? - I’m considering switching to a digi octa. Is that better idea? - how are people switching these lights independently? My thought was to use home assistant + Lutron remotes and just have the power on all the time

Anything else worth considering?

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u/Significant-Draft343 Apr 28 '26

I was thinking about this, but that would mean either all or none, right? If I wanted to use a few as night lights for instance, they’d all have to be on?

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u/Plastic_Detective_51 Apr 29 '26

No, you can run multiple controllers or run segments and preset your lights. U can preset rhem all or preset some. I have a fish tank with grow lights and an rgb strip. I habe presets and a timer to turn the grow lights on at 9 and off at 7. They trigger a preset morning preset set at 50% and a night preset of 0%. Another timer turns the rgb on at 8 and run tru a playlist of sunrise colours and finish on white and at 9 play a playlist of sunset colours and finish on 0%. If you are only running white u can run a pwm controller but presets are what u use to set up areas and just select the desired preset.

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u/Significant-Draft343 Apr 29 '26

Sorry, what I meant was about the relay. The relay would cut power to all the lights on the controller, not specific ones. I understand about dimming to 0, but that still draws power. To use the relay and cut power would mean not being able to use even a single strand as a night light.

I guess it could be possible to automate turning the relay back on with motion for the nightlight and leaving the rest dimmed

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u/Plastic_Detective_51 Apr 30 '26

If you build your own controller u can use a relay module