Using puck to control LED Strips

I wanted to use puck to control LED strip lights. There are many kinds of LED strip lights, but I wanted to use the type that use USB for power and Blue Tooth Low Energy for communications.

Many of the other LED strip lights use WiFi and an AC/DC adapter for power, I don't want to use these.

Basically instead of using my phone to control the LED strips as the product was designed for, I want my puck.js button to control the lights.

Has someone done this already? Is it possible?

Thr 2021.03.18

Hi @user126414 need a bit of clarification please, . . .

'There are many kinds of LED strip lights'

Would you supply a link to what type is being considered.

'but I wanted to use the type that use USB for power'

Did you mean use USB for the control signal, rather than having USB supply power?

'using my phone to control the LED strips as the product was designed for'

What features does the phone control, what does the product then do?

'I want my puck.js button to control the lights.'

Is the idea as simple as using the Puck button for On/Off or more complex as in controlling the color, intensity, On/Off state and maybe some moving animation?

I want to use USB for power only.

I want to use BLE for communications.

I don't have a specific product as of yet as I am considering building my own if needed. I was hoping that someone has done this already. I've seen some LED projects with single LEDs and "stringed together" LEDs, but no projects with strip light LEDs.

These strip light LEDs come with a controller that I want to be able to talk to with the Puck. Simply turning them on an off is sufficient, but I was just curious ...

has anyone interfaced the Arudino with these LED strip lights?

Hi! Yes, what you're asking should definitely be possible. For instance here we're using a Puck to control a Bluetooth light - and the video basically walks you through what you'd have to do to support a new device too: http://www.espruino.com/BLE+Lightbulbs

Even better - if you can find some code online that already controls the device you're thinking of buying, chances are you could just copy the UUIDs (the big string of numbers) and paste them into the code on http://www.espruino.com/BLE+Lightbulbs and it'd work straight off