Deploying the controller software

I was grateful when I was building my LED strip for the first time. I thought I could develop one from scratch but I was running late to get it ready for Halloween. Then I started to look at some options on the internet, when I found the software I am using today to manage all the strip lights I built. This software is called WLED.

The WLED software was created by Christian Schwinne and made to run under Expressif Systems’ popular ESP8266 and ESP32 wireless microcontroller modules. It implements a web server in these devices and is intended to control some LED types, including the WS2812B we are using in this project. It has multiple features and configurations we will be exploring in this chapter. For example, it has over 100 integrated special effects and can control 3 different LED outputs independently if we are using EP8266, and 10 LED outputs if an ESP32 is used. It has everything we will need for this project and more. Another key...