# LED Strip light effects
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690
**Category:** General
**Created:** [13 December 2023 18:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690 "2023-12-13T18:11:09Z")
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### Author:  [@novski](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/novski)
#### Post date: [13 December 2023 18:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690/1 "2023-12-13T18:11:09Z")
Hi
Does anybody know about work done to control an RGB LED Strip with effects?
Like a Knight Rider (red bar bouncing from one end to the other) or a Progress Bar or any other?
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [13 December 2023 18:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690/2 "2023-12-13T18:53:57Z")
How are you controlling your LED strip?
There are quite a few Arduino code Knight Rider examples on the web, you might be able to adapt their algorithm to suit your own setup.
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### Author:  [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)
#### Post date: [14 December 2023 12:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690/3 "2023-12-14T12:21:11Z")
If you have a Raspberry Pi, then you can control strips of Neopixels using Node-RED and
> **[node-red-node-pi-neopixel](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-node-pi-neopixel)**
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> A Node-RED node to output to a neopixel (ws2812) string of LEDS from a Raspberry Pi.
Making a Knight Rider effect is certainly possible but not done it myself
Alternative is to use the exec node to call say, a Python program, that already does effects
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [14 December 2023 17:21 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690/4 "2023-12-14T17:21:56Z")
If you use an ESP32 to control the lights, then you can use the excellent [WLED](https://kno.wled.ge/) firmware to do all kinds of animations etc. Which can easily be controlled via a web interface OR via a node red dashboard.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12 February 2024 17:22 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/led-strip-light-effects/83690/5 "2024-02-12T17:22:20Z")
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