Before you get the boots talking to each other you'll want to set up some presets and an animation playlist.
"Presets" refer to a particular combination of animation, color palette, and speed/intensity/brightness settings. Making the presets is a lot of fun - you get to play around in WLED and find settings that suit your style.
"Playlists" are a scripted list of Presets that will play in a specific order (or shuffle) for a specified amount of time. WLED gives you a lot of control. You can also set your playlist as the default setting when WLED boots up, so you can just turn them on and go.
Play with the effects and colors until you have the lights in a mode you want to save. Click over to the "presets" tab and click "+ Preset". Give it a name and save it to your list.
Once you've saved a few presets, you can string them together into a playlist. The playlist options include the ability to set your duration (how long each preset plays) and the transition time.
Take note of the number assigned to your playlist. In the next step you'll set up WLED to default to this playlist on startup.
Head to Config --> LED Preferences and scroll down until you find the Defaults section. Here you have an option for "Apply preset 0 at boot". Enter the number of your playlist here and click "save". Now when you boot up WLED your playlist will load first automatically.
You can also control the default brightness here. If you're finding your battery life to be too short, turning the brightness down will help.
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