Raspberry Pi & LED-Strip

Hardware setup

Use the following pins:

• GPIO17 for red
• GPIO27 for green
• GPIO22 for blue

Note: I used an external power supply for the LEDs 12v and ground connections.

Software setup

apt install pigpio python3-pip
pip3 install pigpio
chmod u+x rgb-launcher.sh
./rgb-launcher.sh

Set script to run on reboot (optional)

crontab -e
# insert the path to the script and save
@reboot /home/pi/repos/raspberrypi-ledstrip/rgb-launcher.sh

Useful links

Here you can find a tutorial about how to connect a Raspberry Pi to a LED-Strip Here is a tutorial for running fading.py on boot