I don’t know how many families have to break out a soldering iron when they’re trying to set up their #ChristmasTree, but this family does. (Well… I do!)

Our tree lights run on an ESP8266 running WLED. I did a crappy job making connectors last year. So this year I had to redo one.

The holiday joy of #selfhosting your #Christmas tree. 😀 At least I’m getting 41 FPS.

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@paco i was just today starting to do this exact thing. I glanced over yout instructions and i didn’t see any links to places to get the strip leds. I found a couple, but do you have any you recommend? (Looking for ~1000 leds per strip at between 5 and 10 cm pitch)

@david I ordered

These light strings
This power supply (I got 10A, which is overkill, but my 4 strands easily pull 4A)
This ESP8266

Someone gave me the ESP8266, so I don't have the exact source/spec, but that looks like it. There are a few versions of the NODEMCU 8266, and that one's small. What I like about it is that 5V, Ground, and D4 are right next to each other on the D1 mini, so I can make a nice little 3-pin connector for it.

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@paco Awesome, thank you; I will read those over carefully

This is what I had been looking at: aliexpress.us/item/32568073115

Also alibaba, I just needed some validation that I was operating in the right ballpark and wasn't missing something obvious. I'd gravitated to these because they are RGBW.

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