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LIR: So I rabbit-holed a home automation project related to my LED strips question from yesterday. Seems my biggest challenge is that I have three

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Apr 13 '21, 11:33

distinct spaces in the kitchen that I want to put under counter lights. There is no possibility of connecting them as they are each separate from each other (no way to wire together easily). So, that fundamentally means that I need three LED controllers

Now, I have a Raspberry PI at home not doing anything so I deep dove on the Home Automation project. Great stuff. Lots of options but regardless, the base price to get an LED controllers (without going SUPER deep and building my own boards) is about $20-25

Since I get get 16ft of LED with controller AND power supply for like $25, even though I'm going to potentially cut 10' or more of it off, it's still more effective. Maybe down the line I can buy one controller and merge all the extra ends I have.

https://www.amazon.com/Nexlux-Wireless-Controlled-Working-Assistant/dp/B072DXFKRH?ref_=ast_sto_dp&tag=slack01-20 (www.amazon.com)

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when I put LED strips under my cabinets, I just extended the runs between the cabinets by soldering on cable. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 13, 12:05 3
- Yeah. The way our kitchen is, it is three totally separate areas. See attached - oblique Apr 13, 12:42 [Attachment]
- this is honestly the easiest.. get them all up and out of view, tie them together. -- nm - colin Apr 13, 12:31 1
  - yeah, I ran them that way and into one power source, which was connected to a smart switch on the wall. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 13, 12:49
you using hass.io? -- nm - colin Apr 13, 11:49 9
- I have NO idea :) I just have a Raspberry PI in the box at home that I realized I could use. I was looking at Home-Assistant.io. Those particular -- (edited) - oblique Apr 13, 11:52 8
  - same thing :) community is fantastic for these questions. - colin Apr 13, 11:56 2
    - yeah, the sensors is what caught my eye. like "if someone opens this door after 11pm, slowly bring up all the kitchen lights" -- nm - oblique Apr 13, 11:59 1
      - the way people use low-powered USB sensors is fantastic... tracking whether a bike is at home, plant soil moisture sensors, etc. -- nm - colin Apr 13, 12:03
  - I went looking for how to attach LED strips to a Pi a couple days ago, and it was daunting. 12V DC and such. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 13, 11:56 4
    - the MOSFETs are the key to that control if you want to skip over z-wave control -- nm - colin Apr 13, 11:59
    - Everything I'm looking at is WiFi based. The PI is, as I understand it, just running the Home Assistant docker container as a coordinator -- nm - oblique Apr 13, 11:59 2
      - z-wave is going to be a lot easier and def cheaper for the strips themselves - colin Apr 13, 12:02 1
        
        maybe amazon isn't the best source? I don't see anything there z-wave that is cheaper than the $24/16ft. It seems that a lot of the z-wave stuff is - oblique Apr 13, 12:22
This is what I did for under counter lighting -- (link) - rollo Apr 13, 11:42 1
- Yeah, that's basically the kind of thing I have now - oblique Apr 13, 11:44
sounds like a cool/fun project but will a jerry-rigged lighting scheme help sell the house? -- nm - decline (bubble burster) Apr 13, 11:38 1
- That's a very interesting question. How much of the home automation in general stays or goes. Like my Nest, or the smart bulbs, etc. - oblique Apr 13, 11:40

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