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Posted: **Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:44 am**

Hi,

ESP-01 has only GPIO0 and GPIO2. Can i connect a 4-wire LED-strip to this pins? i want to control a WS2801 strip with FastLED and NodeMCU firmware.

thx

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Posted: **Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:38 am**

Peter Scargill controls WS2812b leds with an ESP-12. He thinks it should work with a ESP-01.

HOWEVER he uses the SDK. If you are happy programming in C then start here.

http://tech.scargill.net/esp8266-ws2812b-leds-on-a-plate/

Posted: **Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:16 am**

you only need 2 gpio to control ws2801

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