Newbie questions for someone trying to setup hyperion on Windows

Hi everyone,

I've only just found out about hyperion and after seeing several videos about it, have decided to try it out.
I don't have a rasberry pi, but after looking at the windows software I have found success in using it to capture my monitor to control the lights on my Razer devices.


Next, I'd like to try connecting an LED strip that surrounds my monitor- however I can't for the life of me work out how to connect it.
First I had a light strip with a cheap bluetooth controller (that appeared to only be controlable through a phone app, but could not work out how to connect it to hyperion.
Secondly, I bought a proper wifi light strip today (Powertech Smart Wifi-RGBW LED Strip Lighting Kit), which has an IP address which I assume hyperion can connect to, but I can't get hyperion to talk to it for the life of me. It's connected to the same internet connection as my computer of course.

Any tips? I'm super stuck here and don't know what to do. Any help is much appreciated!

Thank you very much for your replypclin! Hmm I see, it sounds like I need more things then...

Forgive me for my lack of knowlege in this subject. I assume then I need a esp8266, connect it to an LED strip, power supply, flash WLED on it, and somehow control it thorugh hyperion on my windows computer?

I'm thinking of using something like this, would that work? And if so are there any guides on how I can set it up? (I know that flashing it is detailed already in WLED) but I mean in terms of connecting it properly with my light strip.

Furtermore, how can I tell if my light strip is compatible or not? EG LED SK6812 RGBW means nothing to me, but I assume I can find this somewhere on a light strip box?

I'm thinking of using something like this: https://www.jaycar.co.nz/duino…BoCIkdisEJsMaAtwnEALw_wcB
https://www.jaycar.co.nz/smart…chText=led%20strip%20wifi

PS: I also have a nanoleaf light strip. Would hyperion on windows be able to connect to this light strip without the need for my own controller? Or do I need the WLED controller?

I apologise in advance for all the questions, thank you very much for your help!

Thanks again for the clarification everyone. Ahh fiddlesticks, so I got the only Nanoleaf product that Hyperion can't talk to...

Okay, it sounds like if only supported controllers work, can I please get confirmation if any of these commercial controllers work with hyperion and if so, which ones?

I've looked for a couple in my area and here's what I can get:

Yeelight Controller

Cololight controller

Philips hue controller

If I get any of these, will they be able to easily connect to hyperion on my computer? I'll plan to go out and get one today.

Update:

Attempt with a Yeelight strip. I can see the device in the wizard but does not change colour when I click the identify button. Any help?



Log:

2023-04-23T04:24:42.503Z [LEDDEVICE|Yeelight Strip] (ERROR) Device disabled, device 'yeelight' signals error: 'All Yeelights failed to be opened!'2023-04-23T04:25:00.499Z [LEDDEVICE|Yeelight Strip] (ERROR) Cannot resolve mDNS hostname for given service [YeelightLightStrip-C849._hap._tcp.local