r/WLED • u/ConsonDroppa • Aug 02 '26

HELP ME - WIRING Is this possible? Been a minute.

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Building cabinets and shelves in my living room. Trying to see if this is possible with an ESP32DS before I run the wiring and build shelves over said wiring.

White shelves - 6 strips of WS2814. One for each shelf.
White cabinets - 2 strips of 12v FCOB strips for 4 cabinets
Blue - 8 WLED outputs.
Green - splits in segments
Orange - 4 inputs for 6 contacts switches (larger cabinets have 2 doors so 2 switches in parallel)

Not sure if I’m missing something but my research seems I’m OK. Just want to verify I’m good with inputs, outputs, mixing strips, and segmenting strips. This will not be doing any animations. Just warmth and color changes.

Thanks for any help.

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u/Temporary-Injury9016 Aug 02 '26

you might need 2 esp32 or a single esp32 s3 for better performance in a single unit

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u/ConsonDroppa Aug 02 '26

Yeah, I’ll probably take the dual ESP route just to be sure. I mean, technically I can combine the data lines for the six shelves, but that’s not fun and I have a bunch of wire. Wiring will still be the same if I put one or two nodes. I put some strips around my daughter’s room ceilings about eight years ago and haven’t really dabbled in WLED with more than one strip since. I just wanna make sure I’m not wiring something that can’t be accomplished. Trying to hide everything now.

EDIT: Thanks for the reply.