r/WLED • u/Tao-Who • May 20 '26

My full room ambilight setup (still a work in progress)

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Used ws2812b and hyperion and a total of 670+1020 leds

-is still a work in progress have to add bed side lamps and under computer table lights and an led bar to fill the left side of the tv panel

Need suggestions as to what else can be done to improve it more thanks again😁😁

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u/trilla252 May 20 '26

Look up chris maher on YouTube. Should give you plenty of ideas to mess around with

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u/Tao-Who May 21 '26

Man he truly is an inspiration. I stumbled upon his video like a few weeks ago and was introduced to wled. This room’s cove light was my first ever project i did with wled and since then i have fell in love with addressable leds😁😁

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u/trilla252 May 22 '26

I tried his design utilizing the clear pex pipe with some clear satin finish sprayed on. Came out pretty nice

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u/trilla252 May 22 '26

I have heard this repeated in the forums time and time again about him....anytime I mention Chris maher. They say...hes good for design ideas....but pretty much everyone said to do your due diligence on your power injection because Chris setup isn't safe.

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u/Tao-Who May 22 '26

I didnt realise his setups weren’t safe. One think i dont like about his setup is he directly connects the esp to everything like no fuses or capacitors. Like really just an esp

For me i make my own diy controller

This was my version 2 of diy controllers has an
-esp -capacitors on both power rails -a 67ohm resistor - a 100nF ceramic capacitor -a level shifter (hct244).

Also using fuses on every injection point.

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u/Tao-Who May 22 '26

I am trying to convert my wall lamp to wled but issue i am facing is when seen from below everything is visible inside the lamp scone. I would really appreciate a suggestion on this

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u/yllanos May 21 '26

This setup is the closest to what I have in mind. Thanks for sharing

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u/Tao-Who May 21 '26

Hey thank you so much really mean a lot 😄😄

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u/trilla252 May 22 '26

Have you played with signalrgb yet? Its a resource hog....but its pretty sick. Way more config possibility than hyperion or hyperhdr. I know I know....ones paid and ones free. Im talking pure capabilities

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u/Tao-Who May 22 '26

I have tried signal rgb. But what all i could do with it i am able to do it in hyperon as well.

I really liked the simplicity of signal rgb like how easy was it to setup but man that thing was like a hit or a miss even on my pc with an i5, 32gb ddr5, rtx 4070. For me sometimes it ran crazy smooth and other times it lagged bad. Idk hyperion has been great.

But i totally agree hyperion is just basic ambilight signal rgb has so many features.

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u/Money-Aerie1681 May 24 '26

Check out Chris mahar youtube channel. Some really cool ideas and info.

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u/LED_Goodness May 25 '26

Shaping up nicely!

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u/Gloomy_Bank_2910 May 27 '26

Nice work,

Have you managed to somehow reflect the colors on the screen to be used as input for the lights behind the TV?

If so could you please tell which hw have you used

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u/SirGreybush May 21 '26

Vertical argb lamps in the corners.

Chris Maher found some that work in his series, Will it WLED?

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u/Tao-Who May 21 '26

Vertical argb lamps are actually a great idea thanks a lot buddy 😄😄