How to wledify some govee light strips.
Sorry for my grammar of if this has been discussed before but I never found the answer for this online.
I have some of the cheaper side of govee products, H619A, H61BE and H61BE and I wanted to wledify them to use with SignalRGB (from recent updates, the govee integration in signalrgb treats the whole strip as only the first led in mapping, also wled lets you set segments in signalrgb).
This might work with a level shifter but my level converter did nothing.
What I ended up trying was to feed the 3.3v Data Output from my esp32 to an led (ws2812b that I know I can control fine) then from that led's DO to the DI on the govee light strip and it seems that I can control the govee strip just fine, making that led act as the level shifter.
Settings that I used:
H619A - LED Type WS281x Color Order GRB (it has black ICs, no text)
H61BE - LED Type SK6812/WS2814 RGBW Color Order: RGB (the ics are black and this time it is wriiten WS2814A)
I also have lenth the number of IC + 1 and Skip first LEDs to 1 so the WS2812b led doesn't light up (on H61BE it sometimes shows different colors because it uses a different protocol)
I attached some photos to show how it works, I am using a buck converter to power the 5V leds since I can't access the VIN port... (My board is small). Sorry for the mess. In this test I used some segments of the H61BE strip and had the ws2812b led on (so skip first leds set to 0)