So am setting up WS2811 LEDs on my house. I have a sketch working and controlling the lights with no problem with Home assistant sending an MQTT message to the Driver board to select the effect or colour that I want and this works great.
I now have some friends that want me to create a system for them that will work without home assistant to send the commands for the effect and colours.
So I am looking at creating a stand alone controller that will allow me to select from a bunch of preset effects and to also have a solid colour option with a colour select wheel. has any one done something like this or knows where I should start to create a stand alone unit.
@John_Sullivan I am looking to make something that is in its own network. I am ok with running a hard line from the controller to the led controller such as Cat 5.
I’ve found Particle Photon to be pretty easy to set up and use, especially in terms of sending commands over the internet. It takes care of the “plumbing” for you so that you can just focus on the patterns / etc. You can send commands through their app, or through your own app / backend using their api.
OpenHAB on a raspberry pi will give you ios app/webpage to give you switch/slider functions. I’m not sure if they have a color selection widget thing. Let me know if they do.