APA102 or SK6812 RGBW ?

SK6812RGBNW has best colors, but WLED is recommended. APA102 has not that good colors, but works well connected directly to RPi.

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APA102 has not that good colors, but works well connected directly to RPi.

you see my link? not good colours? There is no ledstrip that has al the functionality you want out of the lights.

You always have to give in at some point, it can be DIVERSE symptoms why a ledstrip doesn't project real live colours that you want.

perfect colourscheme doesn't excist

I only say this in a professional way, i am not afended or anyway my lights are great 30l/mtr

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So, what are the best LED stripes in 2021? Which kind should be used?

if you have your leds your not out of the woods yet,

go from a basic point of view, the best results ( most accurate colours you can achieve) with a couple of pointers.

1. First find your LED setting RGB/BGR/GBR etc etc to suit your ledstrip.
2. make sure the capture video is > at highest setting ( lower count decimation) and highest resolution 16/9 like 1080p
3. Make sure also that your TV and your captured image from the source are as much alike, so turn off enhancements in your image settings of tv!
4. Make sure the captured image before go to your PI is as high as possible, use a good quality splitter
5. use a good quallity PSU, the better the PSU the nicer the colours will be
6. find a youtube video with Ambilight >> _LINK pause it at the colour you want to set
7. Go to remote section of Hyperion.NG, here you can 'tinker" the settings and see immediatelly results
8. basic setting is Gamma over 2.0 for every RGB colour ( between 2.0 and 2.4) something like that, is diffrent for each ledcontroller
9. RGB colours leave them basic yellow/white/red/blue/green etc etc don't touch that ( yet)

now try with the RGB Gamma and paused video to achieve the colours, it has to be really simple now

reminder; every time you change this an other colour can go off.

its almost impossible to have all the ledcolours exactly matched with your TV.

If you can't get the right results with only Gamma RGB settings then try to set each colour individually, but its not my way to do this.

note; step 3/4 is really important because the captured image into Hyperion.NG translates the correct colours for the leds... if those in beginning don't match with your tv its hard to set them right in Hyperion.NG..

note2; take your time for this, it can take hours or even days.

goodluck!