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Make LED Compatible with Philips Color Kinetics iColor Lights? #4294

Open achecchia opened 2 days ago

achecchia commented 2 days ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. no

Describe the solution you'd like ability to connect WLED to control Color Kinetics iColor RGB lights

Describe alternatives you've considered read a document describing how someone reverse enginnered these controllers and lights, and tried to use his findings for WLED. did not have any luck.

Additional context I have a few clients with Philips Color Kinetics iColor lights. They see the way of WLED and would prefer something like that, without having to pay a philips professional to do simple things. They love what WLED can do. i have a link to reference the reversen enginnering and a data sheet for the controller. https://bikerglen.com/blog/reverse-engineering-the-icolor-flex-protocol/ https://www.docs.colorkinetics.com/support/datasheets/Chromasic1.pdf

I would love to see this ability within WLED. would anyone be able to add the programming for this? its at the bottom of the article for the reverse engineering. Thanks!!

Thank you for your ideas for making WLED better!

DedeHai commented 2 days ago

did not have any luck.

does not sound promising. So if someone with the proper hardware to test and interest in implementing this is willing to do a PR... otherwise I do not see this happening.

willmmiles commented 1 day ago

For direct communication, you're probably going to need a custom hardware interface to do the integration -- it's not purely a software problem. The engineer who did the reversing concluded that the communications line needed to be filled with an "idle" pattern in between updates. The light protocols supported by WLED typically don't require service in between updates, allowing the processor to go off and calculate the next frame, answer web requests, etc. etc. The article author designed a bus interface in an FPGA to solve this problem; you'd have to do the same -- at which point it's not so much about "does WLED support this protocol" as "does WLED support my custom bus interface hardware".

That said: it looks like Color Kinetics also sell ethernet gateways for use with their LEDs -- you could probably customize WLED to send them DMX or speak their UDP "KiNet" protocol.