Welcome —finally— to my guide on how to control RGB LED lights from your smartphone or web browser by making use of the DMX protocol.
Some background
First of all, a bit of background history on how this all came to be. I started this project way back in February 2015 when we first installed RGB LED strips in my room. In order to power them, we got a regular 12V power supply, along with a DMX decoder to control the full 
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- Lights On
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- Lights Off
As it turns out, the DMX decoder included a wireless remote that’s supposed to help you change the color in display with an iPod-like wheel, along with the brightness and more. However, this remote just plain sucks; the “color wheel” is awful at best, and there’s no easy way to come back to the color combinations you’ve found to be the most comfortable.
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- The dreadful remote
There are countless other ways to solve this problem, but the aim of this DIY project was to figure out a new and better way to control the LED lights, while keeping the already present DMX decoder. To achieve our goal, I settled on just building a mobile-ready web interface and connect it to an Arduino board.