Controlling WLED
A few scenarios how to control WLED form Node-Red. WLED is a individually addressable LED driver firmware for ESPs.
- Control WLED from Dashboard
- Auto brightness control based on ambient light
- Timers using bigtimer
- Use WLED for Visual alerts
- Google Assistant integration.
Details on how to use this flow covered in this video: https://youtu.be/dVLjEoUlpls
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