anyone on here use any type of home automation to control their LEDs? Right now I am using the LEDs for ambient lighting around the house but rather than having to go upload a new sketch just to change a color or pattern, I’d like to be able to push those changes over the LAN. Is this something that’s possible?
If all your LEDs are already centrally controlled by the same arduino, this should be pretty easy to implement by adding a Bluetooth module. Adafruit has one that comes with an app for changing modes and a color picker : https://www.adafruit.com/products/2479
I’m using a Photon and a small PHP webserver setup to drive some of mine. Nothing through an established IoT infrastructure, but it works.
i use Homeseer for the house automation - it has a nice plugin for Hyperion which can drive WS2801 amongst others. Runs off a rPI