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Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi!
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Adalight not working #194

Closed ViFi-connected closed 4 years ago

ViFi-connected commented 5 years ago

Using Arduino Nano i can stream from PC to ws2812b via Prismatik with no problems at all. But when using WLED on NodeMCU, the stream is delayed and just not working properly. Is it an esp8266 problem? Should i connect the Nano before NodeMCU to grab and pass the data? Thanks for any advice.

Aircoookie commented 5 years ago

Hi! Sorry that there are issues with Adalight! Can you send me the code that you use with the Arduino Nano? Maybe the serial baudrate of something is off. I will check if it is a problem with WLED!

No, WLED can't process the raw pixel data coming from Arduino nano. You could use an Arduino relay module and connect it to GPIO12 of NodeMCU, then connect the led data lines from both the Nano and NodeMCU to it. This can automatically switch between the nano ambilight and WLED.

Ideally thought, WLED should work nicely with Adalight. How many WS2812b leds are you using?

ViFi-connected commented 5 years ago

I am using 116 leds. Baudrate is set to 115200 in Prismatik (works with Nano, same USB port).

Adalight_ArduinoNano.txt

codamo35 commented 5 years ago

Hey Aircoookie, great stuff cooking in here. Thoroughly enjoying it!! I had a similar issue a while back with a Prismatik/Adalight setup, but didn't extensively troubleshoot it. Just spent a bit of time today looking back into it and here's what I'm running into:

-I have 400 addressable points in my ceiling, but tested this down to just 20 LED points (changing length had no effect). -I have the WLED 0.8.4 binary loaded onto a NodeMCU, which works fine and dandy with controlling all 400 points. I have the Prismatik 5.11.2.19 binary application loaded to my Mac OS 10.14.5, and the application functions fully with no issues. -Baudrate set to 115200 in the Prismatik application and I have my WLED device hooked to my computer via USB (with correct COM port set in Prismatik). -With Prismatik running WLED sees incoming commands and stops producing it's own colors, and then produces a frozen color projection across all LEDs. If I display a moving color-wheel video on my computer screen under the marked pixel-points, the LEDs change color every 7-45 seconds, although sometimes not at all. It's not predictable and not repetitive. Each instance when it changes it is a stationary color change, no movements, just frozen. -If movement stops on my computer under the pixel points, WLED switches back to producing it's previous color mode after the timeout of not receiving any new Adalight commands (timeout duration set under WLED menus, and work as it should). -If I create movement under those pixel points again, WLED switches back over to (sort-of) receiving the Adalight commands.

Seems almost there, but something like a refresh rate or interrupt rate not working quick enough. This post seems to point that it's not isolated to me as well. If you need a visual of what is happening I can work up a video recording of the screen / LEDs. Just let me know.

Prismatik software, tested on both Mac and Windows (and giving same issue on both OS): https://github.com/psieg/Lightpack/releases

Aircoookie commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your feedback! i'll hopefully find a fix soon!

raptusis commented 4 years ago

Hi! Any news for this very interesting feature?

Thanks for all

Stephan3 commented 4 years ago

+1 for this. I fiddled most by using the hints in several topics here. As i use Hyperiond i wanted to bind it using the adalight protocol. My ESP32 is on a selfcompiled version, its latest Master.

I saw that hyperion can be used using the UDP protocol. This is lagging every now and then. So next step for me was trying adalight. If i missed a thing in the wiki, explaining how to do it richt, sorry for that.

With baudrate 115200 i cant get it work reliable. The esp32 becomes unreacable and needs reboot after hyperion disconnects. Anyone had that to

Aircoookie commented 4 years ago

@Stephan3 I merged the new Adalight parser yesterday! Are you already using that version? If yes, I need to look into that, losing connection should never happen, especially when data is only sent via USB/serial.

Stephan3 commented 4 years ago

I pulled master yesterday,too. As we can’t be sure. Let me pull latest tomorrow, test and report back. :)

codamo35 commented 4 years ago

Can confirm, 0.9.0-b1 inclusion of #391 has resolved this original issue!!