Article: Added WLED article for the powered by community series #349
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Any comment, @Aircoookie? |
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| Making amazing lighting installations could sound very complex, requiring a lot of expensive hardware and software, however, thanks to the community and some ESP32 or ESP8266, this is not that complex and you can do it yourself. | ||
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| Today we will talk about a community project, created by [Christian Schwinne a.k.a Aircoookie](https://github.com/Aircoookie), called [WELD](https://kno.wled.ge/). |
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Thank you for your review! Fixed!
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@pedrominatel A few nitpicks and small suggestions to improve the reader's experience.
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| ### Hardware | ||
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| If you want to test the WLED with one of Espressif boards, try with the [ESP32-C3-Lyra V2.0](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-adf/en/latest/design-guide/dev-boards/user-guide-esp32-c3-lyra.html). The ESP32-C3-Lyra supports the addressable and RGB LED strips. |
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Closer to the beginning of the article, you say that several Espressif SoCs are supported. My immediate assumption would be that all development boards based on those SoCs should be supported. Now you single out one specific board and recommend it. Why? Suggest that you explain it here.
If this board is so good, why not mention it in How to use together with the supported SoCs?
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I reached the citation under the overview of components and now I see why you recommend this board. Suggest placing this information above the pictures and maybe even move the whole thing closer to the beginning.
If you choose to move it closer to the beginning, consider creating a separate section Hardware and mention supported SoCs and this board.
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I'll make it clear why I'm recommending this board.
This board was created to control addressable and regular RGB LEDs with a 12V power input (LED strips can usually be 5V or 12V).
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| If you want to test the WLED with one of Espressif boards, try with the [ESP32-C3-Lyra V2.0](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-adf/en/latest/design-guide/dev-boards/user-guide-esp32-c3-lyra.html). The ESP32-C3-Lyra supports the addressable and RGB LED strips. |
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For lack of experience with LEDs, I assume that addressable and RGB are two independent characteristics of LEDs.
Regarding addressable, you already mentioned earlier that non-adressable are not supported. This characteristic is covered.
However, regarding RGB it is not clear. Earlier you said that RGBW are supported. Now you mention RGB LED strips are supported. Maybe you can elaborate on that and say what other types exist and what is supported/unsupported.
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The WLED project only supports addressable LEDs, however, the board supports regular RGB LEDs (one GPIO per color). The addressable LEDs require just one GPIO and use a protocol to define the color of each segment.
I'll propose changes to explain this in a better way.
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🎉 A preview for this PR is available at: https://preview-developer.espressif.com/pr349/ |
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Thanks @f-hollow for your review. I've implemented the requested changes and added more details about the board. |
Description
This PR adds a new article about the WLED community project. This is the first article of a new series of community articles with ESP32s.
The article describes what it is and the first steps on how to get started.
@Aircoookie It would be great if you could give your opinion about this article. Thank you very much!
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