This is where the project started to go sideways from what the original idea was. To have both the camera and lighting controlled from the same app. I didn't think want to waste a whole day waiting on an led strip from amazon so I picked up one I found in town. But the led strip I ended up with turned out be analog and not digital. Meaning it would have required a separate arduino board to control and a separate 12vdc power source.

Had it been a digital 4 wire led strip I would not have had the problems getting it to work.

So the work around to get something functional by the end of this phase of the contest was to switch the light to a GE-A19 smart bulb. It filled the need of having a light source that can be controlled from an app.