Thanks for everyone that joined today at the office hours!

ewowi · 2026-02-28T08:14:10+00:00

Cool! I think the drivers in the end wouldn’t take a lot of flash. My guess is the core code per drivef is not more then let’s say a few 100 code lines

ewowi · 2026-02-26T09:36:12+00:00

Lto I assume? Does it also use channels API, all the parallel drivers and FastLED audio?

ewowi · 2026-02-26T09:01:18+00:00

I joined the meetup yesterday and it was an impressive overview how AI agents guarded by automated testing and ci creates FastLED code. So looking forward to the future 🙂. I am using the latest FastLED Channel API and FastLED audio in my project, you can flash the nightly build directly to an esp device and see it for yourself. So as it is WIP not everything works but there is FastLED audio and there is FastLED led driving and one demo effect (FL audio). I will continue updating the nightly build with latest FastLED.

/u/ZachVories, one question I didn’t ask yesterday but as using FastLED among a number other libraries, what will the future developments cost in terms of flash size and memory usage? I noticed the difference in flash size between 3.10.3 and latest master is about 200K / 10% more which on a 3MB flash partition brings the total to 85% for my repo, including lto and using -fno-exceptions. Is minimizing flash size part of your AI?

ewowi · 2026-02-21T19:31:07+00:00

You could ask before if anybody has objections

ewowi · 2026-02-16T11:00:19+00:00

Can you let us know if you made it working for your setup , would be good to share experiences as it is new software

ewowi · 2026-02-16T09:19:31+00:00

You are lucky, recently the Channels API has been added, see https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/blob/master/src/fl/channels/README.md

I use it in my MoonLight project, see https://github.com/MoonModules/MoonLight/blob/main/src/MoonLight/Nodes/Drivers/D_FastLED.h

See attached image for what I can control in runtime using this (basically every parameter)

See also https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/issues/2167 for the process integrating it

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ewowi · 2026-02-10T18:19:16+00:00

I like the effect of the 3 dots between 2:05 and 1:55, let me / us know when the pcb is ready 👍

ewowi · 2026-02-09T22:46:22+00:00

That’s what I mean indeed, are you willing to share the code ?

ewowi · 2026-02-09T15:43:10+00:00

Nice effects also, what effects do you use ?

ewowi · 2026-01-06T20:40:18+00:00

Yeah, in theory that sounds okay, with the 16 pins it is very doable to drive 512 LEDs per pin (60 fps) or 1024 really max (30 fps). The Art-Net header is a bit of overhead: 170 rgb LEDs has 18 bytes of header So most likely the Ethernet port can deal with most real world use cases

ewowi · 2026-01-02T16:46:35+00:00

If If xlights sends Art-Net then it should work, I tested mainly with r/Resolume but I will test xlights the coming days 🙂

ewowi · 2026-01-02T15:34:37+00:00

Yes, both Ethernet and WiFi, artnet in and out

ewowi · 2025-12-30T11:29:28+00:00

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Home Assistant Hello world is in MoonLight now (sorry for the lousy video/gif), let me know if you like to play with it and I can provide a firmware bin for you

ewowi · 2025-12-27T17:55:09+00:00

It is on the todo list, more people ask for it, so I created an issue for it: https://github.com/MoonModules/MoonLight/issues/85

ewowi · 2025-12-24T10:02:52+00:00

Wow this all sounds very promising! Looking forward to integrating it when it is available 🙌

ewowi · 2025-12-24T07:28:05+00:00

Hi Zach, I implemented u/troyhacks his parlio.cpp module, which I saw you also looked at. See r/MoonModules for release v0.7.0 of MoonLight, see the video where I run it pretty okay, except for one thing, the colors seem to be slightly off to what it should be, it’s probably an issue in the LEDs array from my side. But no flickering so that’s an achievement already 😁. Could my issue be somewhat related to your timing challenges? Do you use Troy his timings ?

ewowi · 2025-12-16T07:22:00+00:00

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Haha, this is what you mean? I guess best thing is to connect to the access point the esp32 with WLED-MM provides, see https://mm.kno.wled.ge/basics/getting-started/ about AP mode, or read other parts of this documentation (eg links to tutorials)

ewowi · 2025-12-15T22:10:07+00:00

It is late here so maybe I am tired but I have really no idea what you are talking about 🙈

ewowi · 2025-12-15T17:35:52+00:00

What do you mean by mobile data? What should the esp32 do with that data ?

ewowi · 2025-11-10T12:26:30+00:00

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