INTRODUCTION
The light kit features two connected control systems:
- A hand-held 4-button remote control, which can be used to select pre-existing lighting patterns, turn the main lights on or off, turn the top tower light on or off, and select the pattern for the top tower light. If the optional street lamp add-on kit is also installed, the remote control can also set the brightness for the street lamps and turn these on or off as well.
- Open Source Wi-Fi lighting software called WLED, which is pre-installed on the light kit's main controller. WLED provides the ability to control the lights in your Eiffel Tower via Wi-Fi, via integration with Amazon Alexa, via the network control protocol MQTT, and via several freely available mobile applications such as wled-native and WLED+ (to access these apps on your phone, query them by name from your device's app store).

Note: Brickstuff does not maintain the WLED software or any of its associated applications. We have delivered your light kit with a set of pre-configured lighting patterns specifically designed to work with your Eiffel Tower, created using the default configuration of WLED.
Your lighting kit has been pre-programmed to function right out of the box with 31 different lighting patterns. You can begin enjoying it immediately after completing set-up by just turning it on. When you are ready to explore more, you can read the next section and begin using the 4-button remote control. Using the WLED software is completely optional, and is not required in order to enjoy your Eiffel Tower lights. Advanced users who choose to explore the WLED software by reading farther down in this document will find the software is extremely rich, with many custom options, but again, accessing, using, or understanding the WLED software is completely optional.
The photo below shows the 4-button remote control included with your light kit. The remote uses radio frequency (RF) so it will reach through walls and other obstacles; unlike infrared remotes, this remote does not require "line of sight" to operate, and it should not interfere with other devices (i.e., baby monitors, TVs, or set-top cable boxes) in your house.
4-button Brickstuff Remote ControlThe remote's buttons are labeled A, B, C, and D. The document below makes reference to several ways to press each button to control a specific function:
- Single-Press: Pressing a button once for less than one second, then releasing.
- Double-Press: Pressing a button twice within a short time period.
- Long-Press: Pressing and holding a button for more than one second.
The sections below describe the functionality of each button on your remote control.

NOTE: When you press a button on the remote control, you should see an LED light on the remote itself also turn on. At the same time, the red LED light on the remote receiver unit (plugged into the main controller inside your Eiffel Tower) should turn off when a signal is received from the remote. If you do not see any activity from the LED light on the receiver when pressing a button on your remote, you will need to pair the remote with the receiver again. This is an easy process: press the small white button on the receiver (connected to the main controller inside your Eiffel Tower) one time, then press any button on your remote control. You should see the red LED light on the receiver board flash several times, indicating the remote and receiver are now paired.
The "A" button on your remote has two functions:
- A Single-Press of the button will turn main power on or off for your Eiffel Tower lights.
- A Long-Press of the button will activate the Wi-Fi "hotspot" for the main controller. You can use this when you need to change the Wi-Fi network your Eiffel Tower is connected to (when moving to a new location or when connecting to your home Wi-Fi for the first time). The details of this process are described later in this document.
The "B" button on your remote has three functions:
- A Single-Press of the button will cycle through the 31 pre-programmed lighting pattern presets for your Eiffel Tower.
- A Double-Press of the button will switch to a special "glitter" lighting preset with flashing lights inside the tower.
- A Long-Press of the button will activate the "playlist" function, which will cycle through the 31 pre-programmed lighting pattern presets in random order.

NOTE: when you turn power on using the "A" button on your remote, the last active lighting pattern will resume, and this pattern will remain active until you change it. If you want to select a different pattern, you can Single-Press button "B" on your remote, or if you want to switch back to the "playlist" function with random presets, you can Long-Press the "B" button after turning power back on.
The "C" button on your remote has two functions related to the optional add-on street lamp lighting kit:
- A Single-Press of the button will turn the 48 lamp posts on or off.
- A Long-Press of the button while the lamp posts are turned on will cycle through five brightness levels for all 48 lamp posts. When you reach the brightest setting, the lamp posts will flash to indicate this; another long-press of the button will cycle back to the lowest brightness level.

If you do not have the optional street lamp light kit installed, the "C" button will have no effect.

Your brightness setting and status (on/off) for the lamp posts will be remembered even when power is turned off.
The "D" button on your remote has two functions related to the flexible LED light strip at the very top of your Eiffel Tower:
- A Single-Press of the button will turn the top LED light strip on or off.
- A Long-Press of the button while the light strip is on will toggle between the two patterns for the strip:
- Solid: all lights in the top LED strip will be ON.
- Rotating: the lights in the top LED strip will simulate two rotating beacons, as atop the real-world Eiffel Tower.

Your pattern setting and status (on/off) for the top LED strip will be remembered even when power is turned off.
Replacing Your Remote Batteries
Over time, you may notice the signals from your remote are not reliably received by your Eiffel Tower. You may also notice the LED light on the remote is flashing, or has become dim. This is a sign that it's time to replace the two batteries in your remote. We have published a
video showing how to do this. You will need 2x of the type CR2016 coin cell batteries.
DEFAULT WLED CONFIGURATION
The WLED software inside your Eiffel Tower's main controller has been pre-loaded with a configuration telling the software about the number of LED lights in your tower, and also how those lights are arranged and connected. This makes it easier to change patterns or make your own patterns if you choose to.

As outlined above, accessing WLED or customizing any of the settings there is completely optional, and not required to enjoy your Eiffel Tower lights.
Pre-Loaded Lighting Patterns
Your Eiffel Tower controller has been pre-loaded with 32 different lighting patterns. 31 of these are part of the "playlist" that automatically plays when you connect your Eiffel Tower to power. The 32nd pattern is the "glitter" pattern of flashing lights that is activated when Double-Pressing the "B" button on your remote control as described above-- we created this effect to mimic the flashing lights pattern often seen on the real-world Eiffel Tower at night. This "glitter" pattern is not part of the "playlist" that automatically plays when power is connected.
At the bottom of this guide, there is a PDF file attached, listing all of the pre-programmed WLED presets in your kit. You can also download the PDF via
this link.

As described above, Short-Pressing the "B" button on your remote cycles through each of the 31 presets in order.
Connecting Via Wi-Fi
By default, your Eiffel Tower's main controller is set to connect to a test Wi-Fi network (called Brk_test), so you will not automatically see it on your home network or be able to connect to it with your computer or mobile device.
If you want to connect to your Eiffel Tower with a computer or mobile device and use the WLED software, you have two options:
- Keep the Tower on a point-to-point (direct-connect) Wi-Fi network (not connected to your home or office Wi-Fi), and connect directly via the built-in Access Point (AP) in the controller. This is a good setup when you don't want to always be able to connect to the Tower (or when you don't want others to be able to connect and change your configuration). When you access your Tower via this direct-connect method, however, you will not be able to use any of the community-provided mobile apps such as wled-native or WLED+.
- Connect the Tower to your home or office Wi-Fi. When connected in this way, you will have full access to the WLED features, and you will have more ways to control your lights via advanced web protocols and home automation software. You will also be able to use the community-provided mobile apps.
Both options above are initiated by the same process: Long-Pressing button "A" on your remote control. Once you do this, your Eiffel Tower's built-in Access Point will be visible in the list of Wi-Fi networks on your phone or computer for a short period of time, during which you can connect and control the software (option #1 above) or change the device's Wi-Fi setup so it joins your home or office network (option #2 above).

NOTE: there is a delay of 20-30 seconds after Long-Pressing your remote's button "A" before the Access Point will become visible in your list of Wi-Fi networks.
Once the Access Point becomes active, you should see either "WLED-AP" or "EIFFELTOWER-AP" in your list of Wi-Fi networks as shown in the images below.
WLED Access PointClick to select the Access Point name (either WLED-AP or EIFFELTOWER-AP), then enter the default password when prompted.

The password will be either wled1234 or brickstuff. Try the wled1234 password first.
Once connected to the Access Point, your device should open to the default WLED web page (on iOS devices, this can take up to a minute or more), but if your device does not open the default page, you can manually enter it in a browser as
http://4.3.2.1. This should open the default WLED page shown below.
Default WLED screen viewed on a mobile deviceThere are several items to note on this page:
- A row of icons at the top of the screen:
- Power: Click this to turn your Eiffel Tower lights on or off. This has the same effect as Single-Pressing button "A" on your remote control.
- Timer: Clicking this icon sets a countdown timer (60 minutes by default) to turn off your lights. Click it again to disable the timer.
- Sync: This is an advanced feature used when running multiple instances of the WLED software on the same Wi-Fi network. This is not used with your Eiffel Tower kit.
- Peek: This opens a window to show you a graphic representation of the lighting pattern currently running (active) on your Eiffel Tower. Note that the display will be reversed, with the top of the display representing the bottom segment on your Eiffel Tower.
- Info: This shows a number of system details, including the version of the WLED software and the amount of time the system has been running.
- Config: This is where you will make any changes to your default WLED configuration, such as adding it to your home/office Wi-Fi network or changing access passwords.
- The master brightness setting (right below the top row of icons, with a slider)
- This is explained in greater detail below, but brightness should ALWAYS be set to 100 or lower.
- Large color wheel, color sliders, and color circles:
- The large color wheel is used to select a specific color for an effect (effects are explained below).
- The color sliders are used to change the brightness of a specific color.
- The color circles are used to quickly select from a pre-defined palette of colors.
- The "Fx" and "Bg" circles are specific to effects, and will be explained in more detail below in the Effects section).
- A row of icons at the bottom of the screen:
- Colors: This is the tab you are currently viewing, with the color wheel, sliders, and circles.
- Effects: This is where you select from a list of WLED's available lighting effects, or patterns. This is explained in greater detail in the Effects section below.
- Segments: This is a listing of the segments your LED lights are divided into. The lights in your Eiffel Tower kit have been pre-configured in three segments (Bottom, Middle, and Top), which are explained in more detail below in the Segments section.
- Presets: This is a listing of the lighting presets in your system. As explained below in the Presets section, presets are saved configurations that combine Color, Effect, and Segment settings into one saved setting.

The web pages you are seeing are coming directly from the main controller on your Eiffel Tower-- you are not connected to any outside network or to the Internet. The WLED software runs a self-contained mini website that you use to control the lights and to set other options. Changes you make are saved directly to your Eiffel Tower main controller.
WLED Config Page
The image below shows the WLED Config page. Depending on the type of device you are using and the size of your screen, you may see this page as soon as you connect to the WLED software, or you can access it by clicking the "Config" icon with the gear icon at the top of the screen.
WLED Config PageThere are several buttons on this page:
- Back: Clicking this button brings you back to the main page with the color wheel.
- WiFi Setup: This page allows you to add your Eiffel Tower to your home/office Wi-Fi network, and it is also where you can change the network name and Access Point name of your main controller if desired.
- LED Preferences: This page allows you to change the default lighting preset (pattern) that is loaded when mains power is switched on. By default, your Eiffel Tower is configured to load the playlist with 31 randomly-cycling patterns.
- 2D Configuration: This is where the physical LED strips in your Tower are linked together in the WLED software. This allows the patterns you select to be represented correctly. You should not make any changes here.
- User Interface: This is where you can change the "server" name of your main controller, which will change the name displayed within the WLED software on the main page, but will not impact anything seen on your network.
- Sync Interfaces: This is where you set advanced features for use with other WLED systems, with Amazon Alexa, with Philips Hue lighting systems, with MQTT, and other systems. These topics are beyond the scope of this guide, and we cannot provide support for any changes you make here. See the official WLED documentation and the WLED Community for help with these features.
- Time & Macros: This is where you can set time synchronization for your Eiffel Tower, which will allow you to trigger specific events or patterns at specific times each day. Time settings and time-specific events/patterns are beyond the scope of this guide. See the official WLED documentation for information about how to use these features.
- Usermods: This is a page where some WLED control boards can be configured to access additional modules. Usermods are not supported with your Eiffel Tower main controller.
- Security & Updates: This is where you can set a PIN code to protect access to your WLED setup, and also where you can back up and restore your system configuration and lighting presets.
If you do not want to connect your Eiffel Tower to your home/office Wi-Fi network but just want to try different lighting patterns, click "Back" on the Config page to return to the main screen. The rest of this section will assume you want to join your Eiffel Tower to your home/office Wi-Fi network, so if you just want to connect directly from your device, skip to the CHANGING COLORS AND EFFECTS IN WLED section below.
If you want to control your Eiffel Tower from your home/office network or to use any of the community-provided apps, you will need to change the default Wi-Fi information in WLED. To access this information, click on the "WiFi Setup" button on the Config age. This will bring up the WiFi Setup page as shown below.
WLED WiFi Setup Page (top section)The fields contained in the red boxes in the screenshot are where you can set or change the device's Wi-Fi information.
- Under the "Connect to existing network" text, you can click "Scan" to scan for a list of available Wi-Fi networks, then select the network you want for your Eiffel Tower, or you can just enter the network name if you know it.
- Enter the password for your network in the Network password box.
- At the top of the screen, click the Save & Connect button. This will save the network information you entered, and your Eiffel Tower's main controller will reboot with the new Wi-Fi network information.
- When your main controller reboots, your mobile device should switch back to its previous Wi-Fi network-- if this is not the same network as your Eiffel Tower has now joined, change your device's Wi-Fi connection so it is on the same network as your Eiffel Tower.
When your Eiffel Tower finishes rebooting, you should see it on your local Wi-Fi network. You should now be able to access the WLED software directly from any browser on that same network via the user-friendly name
http://eiffeltower.local. If you are able to view the Tower's IP address on your network, you can also connect to it directly from your browser by entering
http://x.x.x.x (where x.x.x.x is the address on your local network).

NOTE: whenever you use a web browser to access the WLED software, you must always use the "http://" prefix, not the "https://" prefix.
Once you have your Eiffel Tower on the same Wi-Fi network as your mobile device or tablet, you will also then be able to download one of the community-provided free apps (such as wled-native or WLED+) and use those to connect to and control the lights in your Tower. Search for these apps in your device's appstore.
CHANGING COLORS AND EFFECTS IN WLED

NOTE: this section assumes you have connected to your Eiffel Tower, either directly via the Access Point or via one of the community-provided apps.
WLED has a large array of custom lighting patterns (called "effects" in WLED terminology) to choose from, and you can set custom colors for most of the patterns. You are free to experiment with and modify any of the effects. As you explore the features of WLED, keep the following two items in mind:
- No colors, effects, or changes to existing presets are saved into memory unless you manually save them. If you make changes to any effects or colors but do not save them as a new preset, your changes will be lost when power is turned off (when the USB-C power is disconnected or shut off), or when the active effect being displayed changes.
- When using any colors or effects in the WLED software, you must always keep the overall brightness setting at 100 or less. WLED allows the maximum brightness to be set as high as 255, but setting a brightness for your lights any higher than 100 will cause instability issues and can lead to your Eiffel Tower continually rebooting. This is because of the huge power draw of the 500+ LED lights in your Eiffel Tower. This is such an important factor that we will discuss it in greater detail below.
NEVER Exceed a Brightness Level of 100
We cannot emphasize this strongly enough. Any effects or settings you make in WLED should always have a brightness level of 100 or less. The images below show where the brightness slider is located both in the browser and in the WLED+ app.
WLED Brightness SettngYour Eiffel Tower's main controller has a built-in fuse designed to reset when more than 3 amps of power is used in the system (this fuse will auto-reset if more than 3 amps of power are used). This is also the maximum power the USB-C power supply provided with your light kit can provide. We have set the brightness for all pre-loaded effects to 100 (out of the system's maximum 255) to keep total power consumption below this level. If you set any brightness levels higher than 100, you may begin to see erratic behavior in your system, including reboots, lights that cycle on and off repeatedly, or other behaviors. While these will not permanently damage your lights or controller, it could put things into a loop that may require you to unplug your Tower from mains power to reload the pre-loaded patterns with safe brightness levels.

When setting your lights to white, you may need to use a brightness level below 100 to prevent overloading the system, because white LED light uses more power per LED than any other color.
There are many effects and colors to explore within WLED. As you customize your Tower, always remember to keep brightness levels to 100 or lower.
Understanding Segments
Before you experiment with new colors and effects, it's a good idea to understand the WLED concept of segments.
WLED Segments ScreenSegments in WLED allow a large setup of LED lights to be separated into different zones. You can apply an effect and/or color to one or more segments, giving you a high degree of control over not just which effect or color you apply, but where that setting is applied as well.
For your Eiffel Tower light kit, we have pre-defined three segments in the WLED software and in the pre-loaded lighting patterns:
- Bottom: These are the LED light strips mounted in the lower section of your Tower. There are a total of 104 LED lights in the Bottom section.
- Middle: These are the LED light strips mounted in the middle section of your Tower. There are a total of 104 LED lights in the Middle section.
- Top: These are the LED light strips mounted in the top section of your Tower. There are a total of 296 LED lights in the Top section.

NOTE: the lights in the top flexible LED light strip in the "Broadcast Tower" section of your tower and the street lamps at the base (if you purchased the add-on kit) are not included in any WLED segments. These lights are controlled outside the WLED software, by the buttons on your remote control. Although they do turn on and off with the rest of the lights in your Tower, you cannot change or control these lights with WLED.
When you change a color or make an effect active, you can also select which segment(s) the change should apply to. Within each segment, you can also change how an effect is applied (top-down or bottom-up, for example)-- for the pre-loaded effects, we've adjusted the settings for each segment, but you can experiment with these in any new effects you select.
The screenshot below shows the details within the Top segment (accessed by clicking on the drop-down arrow next to the segment name).
WLED Segment Details (desktop view)The two red rectangles show five checkboxes and one drop-down selector you can experiment with to change how an effect is applied within a segment:
- Two "Mirror" checkboxes, one for the X (horizontal) dimension and one for the Y (vertical) dimension.
- Two "Reverse" checkboxes, one for the X (horizontal) dimension and one for the Y (vertical) dimension.
- One "Transpose" checkbox, which will impact both the X and Y aspects of a pattern.
- One "Sound sim" drop-down box. This is active only with certain effects, and it simulates several different motion sequences within patterns marked as "audioreactive".

While some WLED controllers support audio input, your Eiffel Tower main controller does not. You can use the "Sound sim" setting with audioreactive presets to simulate incoming sound.
Here are the key ideas to keep in mind with segments:
- In your Eiffel Tower light kit, WLED segments have been mapped for you to match the three sections of your Tower.
- When applying a color or effect, you can choose which segment(s) to apply them to.
- When saving an effect, you must also choose to save the segments with the effect or they will be lost the next time the effect is active.
- There are settings within a segment that allow you to change how an effect is applied to that segment.
Experimenting with New Colors and Effects
Now that you understand segments, you can experiment with different colors and effects and apply them to some or all of the segments in your Eiffel Tower. This process follows these steps:
- You first select one or more segments to which you want to apply the new color/pattern.
- Next, you select an effect from the list of available WLED effects. The default colors for that effect are loaded.
- If you want to change the colors, you apply one or more colors to that pattern.
- Finally, you can adjust aspects of each effect such as speed and intensity of the lighting effect (the specific adjustments vary with each effect).
- When you have a segment/color/effect setup that you like, you can optionally choose to save all of these together in a preset. We will cover presets in a later section.
The screenshots below show this process in more detail.
1. Select your segment(s) for this effect/color
Click on the "Segments" icon at the bottom of your WLED screen to see the segments.
WLED Segments Screen with all segments selected.
2. Pick your effect
Click on the "Effects" icon at the bottom of your WLED screen to see the list of available effects.
WLED Effects ScreenAs shown by the red rectangle in the screenshot above, there are several filters you can select to highlight certain types of effects. You can see graphical animations of all effects on the
main WLED website.

NOTE that the effect animations shown on the WLED website are shown as if they were in a single segment, or along a single LED Light string. Remember, the lights in your Eiffel Tower kit are mapped to segments and arranged in a physical order within the pyramid shape of the Tower. As such, effects will not appear exactly as shown on the WLED website when applied to your Tower.
3. Pick your color(s)
Click on the "Colors" icon at the bottom of your WLED screen to see the available color options for the selected effect.
WLED Colors ScreenDepending on the selected effect, there will be different circles at the bottom of the screen. The screenshot above shows "Fx" which corresponds to the color of the effect itself (for example, the color of the lightning flash in the "lightning" effect), while the "Bg" corresponds to the background color for the effect (for example, you could set the Bg color to blue and the Fx color to white to get a blue background with white lightning).

The rainbow-colored circle labeled "R" in the screenshot above means "pick a random color for this effect".
Although not shown in the screenshot above, you can also scroll further down the screen to select from a list of color palettes, which are preset groups of colors you can assign to an effect.

As you experiment with colors, remember to be careful not to exceed the maximum brightness setting of 100 or your system may become overloaded with too much power demand. In this case, the system will reset, and the default preset to load at startup will be loaded. Assuming all of your saved presets have "safe" brightness levels, this will bring your Tower back to a safe operating mode.
4. Adjust the speed, intensity, and other aspects of the effect
Return to the Effects screen:
WLED Effects Screen with options highlightedThe green rectangle in the screenshot above shows the two options available for the selected effect. You can experiment dragging these sliders to see the impact of each. Each effect will have a different combination of available options.
5. Optionally, save settings as a preset
Click on the Presets icon at the bottom of the screen:
WLED Presets Screen with save highlightedThe blue rectangle in the screenshot above shows the "+Preset" button, which will save your current color(s), effect, and segment(s) as a preset. You can then call this up later with a single click.
The screenshot below shows the details that appear when you click the "+Preset" button.
WLED Preset Screen detailsAs shown by the green arrow in the screenshot, you can enter a name for your preset.
As shown by the red rectangle, you should leave these three checkboxes selected-- the most important of these is the "Save segment bounds" checkbox, which will make sure the specific segments you assigned colors and patterns to are also saved.
Finally, click the "Save" button as shown by the purple arrow at the bottom of the screenshot to save the preset.

The system will automatically assign an ID number to the preset-- you can use this number if you ever want to change any of the default playlists or the preset that loads when your Eiffel Tower is plugged into mains power.
If you would like to practice setting up your own preset, the video below shows a quick example.
In this video, a preset is created called "Christmas Colors" with solid red lights for the bottom of the Tower, and solid green lights for the middle and top sections of the Tower. The video also shows how to save the preset.
PRESETS AND PLAYLISTS
<Check back soon for more details-- this is an evolving document!>