LED Lighting, Beauty of PixelBlaze

vitaliy_kh · June 19, 2024, 1:33am

Few years ago I discovered a PixelBlaze LED controller.
https://electromage.com/
It can control variety of Addressable LED Strips and 2D/3D LED Matrixes. Plus it has a very nice HE Driver and of course, all controls are 100% local. Since this discovery I converted all my LED Strips to Addressable COB Strips and in addition I have two matrix-based lighting projects (as of today 10 projects all together). Recently I found a ready-to-go very nice fire patterns. As a result I immediately created two virtual Torches and Fireplace. Virtual Flame on the Torches and Fireplace looks very natural and very relaxing. Here is a picture of my living room (I have a short video, it looks much better than a picture but I have no idea how to upload a video):

There are two Virtual Torch LED Lights on the far side around opening to the kitchen. Virtual Fireplace (this is 48x24 LED Matrix) is under the TV and just a Rainbow Strip is above the TV.
If anybody is interested in Decorative LED lighting I definitely will recommend PixelBlaze as an LED Strip/Matrix controller.

Horseflesh · June 20, 2024, 7:10pm

Did you try WLED and if so why did you like PixelBlaze better? It's new to me so I am genuinely curious.

vitaliy_kh · June 20, 2024, 8:58pm

Practically I did not try WLED but sure red about it many different articles.
PixelBlaze is pretty much self containing and very powerful. There are many ready-go-patterns available. I am not sure about WLED capabilities but PixelBlaze can drive huge amount of Addressable LEDs and LEDs could be assembled as a Strings, 2D or 3D Matrix of any size. There is a very nice HE Driver which allows to control PixelBlaze 100% locally. My wife asked me if it is possible to run something like Waterfall. It took ne few min to find a ready-to-go Waterfall pattern. Now during the day time Torches and Frireplace are running Waterfall patterns and automatically switching to Fire Patterns around Sunset time. Here is another picture when the same light running Waterfall pattern (video looks much better but i cannot upload a video):