An extension of the office LED system into the bedroom, using the same WLED ecosystem. Soft baseboard lighting that shifts color temperature through the day and dims automatically at night. The project forced me to solve problems the office install didn’t surface: longer wire runs, different power supply placement, and the realization that “smart lighting” in a bedroom has a much lower tolerance for latency than lighting anywhere else in the house.
Bedroom baseboard runs required longer wire runs than the office. Voltage drop over longer distances meant the far end of each strip showed slightly different brightness and color than the near end. The fix was running power injection at both ends of each segment rather than just at the controller end — a standard technique that becomes necessary above about 3 meters of dense LED strip.
Power supply placement was also constrained by furniture and outlet locations in ways the office wasn’t. The build required more careful planning of where channel could run invisibly along baseboards.
Part of the LED Lighting Projects collection.