Not sure, haven't researched it that much yet
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I see there will be a sale on 11/11 on AliExpress. I'll pick up one then and have a definitive answer some time in December 
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Are you planning on going with analog or digital LEDs? I went the digital route, since they provide more options for cool effects since they are individually addressable. Currently I have 4 strips, 2 in my office, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. I have two controllers hooked to all of them. All the controllers are ESP8266 boards. For each strip I have one running McLighting, an implementation of the WS2812FX library for neopixel LEDs and one running diyHue, for easy control for "normal" lighting through HE as a CT bulb. The switching between the two is in the form of a relay controlled by the McLighting board. So, if I start an animation with McLighting, it diverts control from one board to the other. It's working really well so far. If anyone wants further details, let me know. McLighting has an HTTP Rest API so you can issue GET commands to change the effects. So, I use that for some lighting alerts. And DIYHue allows the strip to act as a CT bulb so I can control it as I would any other light in HE without the need for virtual switches or anything cumbersome like that.
I am interested. When I get to a computer I will read your implementation better
Let me know if you need any clarification. This is the one area of Home Automation that I have a LOT of experience. Every avenue to get addressable LEDs into ST (and now HE) I've tried. And there are a LOT of terrible ideas out there. 
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I’d love to hear what terrible ideas you’ve heard 
I’m using a set of serial LEDs with DreamScreen behind my TV for a nice bias lighting.
Well, one person integrated with a Particle Photon through the Particle cloud. The device status didn't save in ST and it took up to 10 seconds to get an update to the lights. I tried to build a DTH that basically was a virtual SUPER minimote that sent pre-scripted commands to the strips controllers for different automations. It look OK in the ST app but didn't work at all anywhere else. I scraped that one pretty quick. If it's on the ST forum about addressable LEDs, I've tried it.
I'm thinking of doing an Hyperion setup for my living room. Something akin to this:
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Nice! That’s a lot like what I have.
If you already have the LEDs and don’t want to go through the setup hassle with the raspi, you can usually nab a dreamscreen on eBay for $60 or so.
If you want 4K capability with the “1080” dreamscreen, buy a $10 HDMI splitter, run one end into your TV, and the other into the dream screen. Works like a charm.
Thanks for the heads up. I currently use an RPi 3B+ on that TV with Kodi as the main entertainment system. So, adding on the Hyperion is basically free. And I love free.
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Just received the zigbee controller for the LED strips. Connected straight to the hue hub and working perfectly! i recommend them for sure. 5 meter strip with controller and supply for +-30 euros.
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Nice! Any reason you decided to connect to Hue hub instead of directly to Hubitat? Does it use ZLL and not ZHA?
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If something happens to the hub, i can always control my lights with the hue app.
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Oh....ok. That makes sense.
I'm still waiting on mine (not that I'd have time to set it up yet, anyways 
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Did you get the 5-Ch version? If so, does it do RGB + CCT, or is it RGB -or- CCT?
RGB or CCT. Not both as far as i have seen.
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Hi @Ryan780, very interested and diving into this. (If you have a link to somewhere let me know). Just curious if you had to use Logic Level shifter for your WS2812 LEDs?
The reason for my interest is the ability to control the many effects through Rest Get commands from Hubitat. Haven't seen to many other setups out there that can do that.
I did not have to use a logical level shifter. The LEDs I bought were a little more expensive so they are tolerant of the 3.3v control. Also, one of the setups I am using actually uses the TX pin on the ESP board to control the LEDs and the TX pin is 5v, not 3.3v. So, if you use a setup that controls through the serial interface you definitely don't need the level shifter.
The reason is that there aren't many that do. Most of the LEDs out there are analog, not digital. Any of the good digital setups quickly get too complicated for a home-automation system to control reliably. The best you can hope for is to use them through an HTTP endpoint if possible. But not of the time I find myself only issuing off commands from hubatit for my fancier LED setups.
Thanks Ryan. Yes I plan something similar. Fancy light effects on the three digital LEDs strips.
I plan to get 3 Digital LED strips WS2812bb (3 meters each no idea how many LEDs yet) and probably 2 or 3 controllers like the ESP8266 boards. It's for the living room ceiling crown so looking to have some nice light effects if possible. Have any recommendations on the brand or Amazon links for ones that worked for you? Quite a few digital LED strips out there. Also do you recommend tying them together or having them powered separately (will need to buy a 5V power supply or two I think).
Oh and which ESP8266 did you get. First step I gotta buy some 
Hi...you can use an hc-05 bare bluetooth serial module wired directly to GPIO. When that's up and running, there are any number of compatible apps on the play store - just search for 'arduino Bluetooth'.Rst is right though, that a web app would be a better way to do it, if possible.
