I'm looking for a recommendation on Hubitat compatible outdoor strip lighting. My goal is to line my wrought iron fence, about 100 feet, with lights I can control with my Hubitat. Best case I'd like to be able to change colors and dim as needed. I'll consider strip lighting, Cafe lights or whatever format I can find.
Does anyone have a solid recommendation to do this easily?
Zwave or ZigBee
Multi color
100 feet or so
How cold does it get where you are? That can limit options...
I'm in Texas so not too cold. Usually not much below freezing.
I have a regular RGBW LED strip in IP67 along the front of my house, under eaves, because I want the indirect, diffuse appearance. I use a Qubino, but any of the RGBW LED Strip controllers will work. (Qubino, Fibaro, Zooz)
I have another project planned to replace them with individually addressable. For that I'd use these LED strips and a ESP8266 (WiFi) then a via WLED and the WLED Hubitat integration. All of that works sitting on my office floor. Now I have to get it installed and the prospect of 175 trips up and down a ladder is allowing me to put it off. 
Do you do any animation with them through HE?
I have experimented with animation but more to understand what I'll have to do. My initial intent is to just pick some of the WLED built in Palettes and Effects. I'm not desiring a holiday display of one string 
I am thinking more along the lines of every other or every third lamp on. The current run is too many LEDs per foot for where it's used. It's a "down wash" on the garage doors and I'm thinking I want it to look more like spots than floods Today it fills the entire 36ft of garage door with even illumination. I'm imagining I set it for two "spots" that morph to 3 "spots" that morph to 4 "spots" over a 2-3 hour time frame. Mostly just to mess with the neighbors.
The WLED driver allows for:
Which I believe is all I'll need.
This is exactly what I desire 
Just trying to figure out the easiest way to go about it.
It's pretty easy... mostly just buy the components and go through a 'recipe' for loading WLED onto the ESP.
With a touch of simple low voltage wiring, you have something to experiment with. Power distribution is the most challenging I think because in my case the total string will be made up of two 16' strings. I want power injected in the middle. so I somehow have to add some lamp cord into the metal channel I have for them. I guess what I mean is getting it all to fit without a huge wire pulling struggle. Because the power goes in at one end, all the way to the middle, I have thought about injection at both ends and the middle. My testing here in my office suggests it's not necessary, because I chose the 12v version.
Last is the mounting for the ESP and its power and connection to the strip. I spent some time on ThingVerse but didn't find the perfect box. I need to fit the buck converter inside as well and most of the boxes are "shrink fit."
Such as that one.. no room for the buck converter to take 12v (LED voltage) to 5v (ESP).
I am using three strings of 100 WS2811 RGB LEDs (the 12mm bullet variety) as part of our Christmas decorations this year. Each one is controlled by a separate ESP8266 (the tiny, 8-pin variety) connected to a ESPixel Pop Tiny but running my own code I wrote in Arduino (I am sure people could do it all with WLED but I started my own before I found it). It communicates with a Hubitat driver I wrote where the driver requests JSON pages from a simple web server each one runs. They can do general sequences, each LED can be custom controlled, all at once, movement sequences, all sorts of stuff, and the Hubitat can tell it what to do when. The Tiny is small enough that I fit the whole thing into a 1 1/4" PVC coupler with a plug on one end and a threaded plug on the other, with cable glands passing the power on one side and the LED cable on the other.
I will take a couple pictures and attach them in a minute from my phone. Edit, photos attached. The first shows the 3 "trees" in rainbow mode on our trellis. The second shows a controller opened from the PVC housing.
I like the individual bulbs. There seems to be a lot of product on the market. Have certain brands risen to the top as far as reliability, waterproofing, etc. ?
Some of this is pretty pricey to be rolling the dice and buying the wrong brand/kit/supplier.
Thanks
Oh the PVC pipe solution is Epic. I'm going to immediately go experiment with that idea.
Thanks!
@PunchCardPgmr: I have used Alitove and BTF without issues... But you are right, there is a lot of variability out there on quality. I think you might find more information on something like the http://doityourselfchristmas.com/ forum since they have a whole section for Pixels and a lot of users.
@csteele: The 3 I have out have held up for over a month now in rain, snow, and all the fun weather here in western NY. The 1 1/4" probably would not be big enough for an ESP32 board like you showed, but a larger diameter and length should be fine. Heck, you can even go "fancy" with colored furniture grade PVC if you want it to blend in somewhere or translucent/clear PVC if you want to see inside.
The Qubino I'm using for regular RGBW is potted, I believe. All their other products are, so I am assuming the RGBW Controller is too. However, the wiring connections are not protected and they've held up for more than a year. Same with the 12Vdc barrel connector. I wasn't expecting that level of reliability and had a backup that I was going to seal up better. But I'm really liking this PCV option. I've ordered some glands in anticipation of finding the perfect pipe.
I don't think I have ever consciously tried to keep a few cans of flat spray paint around like I have the three dark versions of this stuff. They've had supply issues (and price gouging exists out there)...but it's handy stuff. It will eventually show scratches on PVC but, for example, the darker greens blends in so well to the surroundings for projects like this. One quick spray and it's done.
https://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/specialty/camouflage-spray/
Curious where you found the 100 bulb strings?
Does anyone make a addressable patio light string?
Or at least not often, and not for long.... and when it does the power may go out anyway. 
(Protective Clause to Chide - No ill will intended, just struck me re-reading what you said. 
Relative there STILL talkin bout the big freeze)
I do not think this is the exact one, but there are plenty out there. I got ones that had X-Connect plugs on them.
Thanks for that.
There is a lot to think about if you want to lay out a good foundation upon which to build on. I'm now finding all the other threads on this, here and elsewhere. [Follow up: I had NO idea this was THIS HUGE of a thing- https://www.christmasexpo.com/ ] Heck, just thinking how to do this for one evergreen tree (I know is going to get huge over the years) takes "an up front plan" 
FYI: Product-wise I'm already seeing some quality diffs. Like Alitove sending out significant inventory of a product they had not adequately QC'd; having customers learn and inform them that they had wired strings backwards (color code wise) in manufacturing! Then sending a note to customers to this effect to "be advised" vs recalling it !
Here's a snip from an Amazon review of BLT product, not that any ONE review is spot on:
" I've ordered from other companies on occasion and always regret doing so, BTF quality is simply unmatched. I have never, ever received a BTF strip/string that was in anything other than perfect working condition, and remained that way even after the abuse I often put them through. "
I HATE the game of roulette that we have to play as consumers these days.
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