Allow wled effects brought in either through plug in or native

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

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I know alot of ppl coming from the smart home community buying kulp boards to control over home assistant and dont wanna create effects in xlights and the push to controller

i would like to have the overylays for each port 200 pixels each till user uploads and changes it I would like a way to trigger wled effects over the pixel overlays in fpp .. read the pixel count and render the effect on the strings i have looked into doing this myself but idk enough about code and dont know where to start i know alot of ppl that would love to see this added

i think the perfect spot in the fpp settings would be in the effects menu and also be able to be called during playlist

they are using his boards bec they can be used wifi and in a small box and has a external antenna compared to the esp they have been using these ppl are wanting leds up year round not just show season including me where the k4 or k8 fit perfect for this use case i included a link to the github so some one that knows what they are doing can help

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED

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wled effects is what im really wanting natively but if you need to do it through plugin thats cool two but even the fast led lib would be cool to add there

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@cpinkham idk if you could help here with your @HA knowledge

[SmAsH-jl]

Agreed this is something that is needed and will sell more boards. some kind of generic effects (wLED/FastLED libraryts ) out of the box across string ports. PI or BBB or any cape for that matter. With the ports defaulting to single strand model with 100-200 pixels. Please please please this would help so much for all kinds of applications.. plug and play for people that just want a better controller than and ESP based device. Thanks FPP team!

[bhheath]

I so agree this would be a great feature.

[dkulp]

There are really two parts to this request: 1) Allow (possibly optionally) the ability to automatically create overlay models from various things that are configured as output. This would include things like VirtualMatrices, Panel matrices, string ports, etc....

2) Expand the list of effects that can be applied to the overlay models. We currently only have color fades and bars. The intention was to add a bunch more, just haven't gotten to it.

[foamflyer]

I too feel that these would be great features. I find that the effects WLED has are in some ways better than what xLights has to offer

[Snipercaine]

I have no idea how to make it happen, but I would love the ease of selecting effects and colors that WLED has paired with the speed and dependability of the Kulp/FPP controllers.

[libby2cm]

FPP and wled have different purposes.. seems odd to try and combine them. Being able to have independently channeled overlays would be interesting though, somehow incorporating an alpha layer in the channel data..

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

FPP and wled have different purposes.. seems odd to try and combine them. Being able to have independently channeled overlays would be interesting though, somehow incorporating an alpha layer in the channel data..

yes correct but i along with a good amount of ppl use fpp for outdoor flood, house lights, during off season with fpp and home assistant it would be nice to throw random effects up rather , then having to preplan it create and upload you can turn them off and on and change color and thats amazing .. we would also like to see some kind of effects added .

i no nothing about coding and been trying for 4 months to try but cant wrap my head around it so i figured it was time to reach out to the community .. i understand if its way to much work and doent happen .. just planting the seed

[bcarriveau]

man i would love to see Aircookie's effects in here, even if it was a plug in!!! :-)

[mjasithrive]

I would love to see this also!

[bryan34w]

Yes!

[andiburt1978]

FPP and wled have different purposes.. seems odd to try and combine them. Being able to have independently channeled overlays would be interesting though, somehow incorporating an alpha layer in the channel data..

yes correct but i along with a good amount of ppl use fpp for outdoor flood, house lights, during off season with fpp and home assistant it would be nice to throw random effects up rather , then having to preplan it create and upload you can turn them off and on and change color and thats amazing .. we would also like to see some kind of effects added .

i no nothing about coding and been trying for 4 months to try but cant wrap my head around it so i figured it was time to reach out to the community .. i understand if its way to much work and doent happen .. just planting the seed

I have this now. Out of holiday season I run various animations on the lights and can control via home assistant (start, stop, next,prev and effect/playlist)

If you can set up FPP and a Falcon or similar pixel controller you can do the same. I

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

Yea i can do the same via script but thats still with creating the effect and playlist

Esppixelstick stick and wled u can turn effects with or without xlights

Those simple times when family goes can u make them do this ... or family get together

Not hang on let me go create that in xlights really quick and make a button in ha

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

Opps phone mishap didnt mean to close and open

[SmAsH-jl]

FPP and wled have different purposes.. seems odd to try and combine them. Being able to have independently channeled overlays would be interesting though, somehow incorporating an alpha layer in the channel data..

yes correct but i along with a good amount of ppl use fpp for outdoor flood, house lights, during off season with fpp and home assistant it would be nice to throw random effects up rather , then having to preplan it create and upload you can turn them off and on and change color and thats amazing .. we would also like to see some kind of effects added . i no nothing about coding and been trying for 4 months to try but cant wrap my head around it so i figured it was time to reach out to the community .. i understand if its way to much work and doent happen .. just planting the seed

I have this now. Out of holiday season I run various animations on the lights and can control via home assistant (start, stop, next,prev and effect/playlist)

If you can set up FPP and a Falcon or similar pixel controller you can do the same. I

The Goal here is to have a set of preset effects baked into FPP.. allowing out of the box, or quick dynamic effects on your ports, (model/controller agnostic, treat each port as a 200 count single strand model for this purpose until we tell the controllers otherwise. )

This would allow plug and play for people just wanting fancy roof line effects without needing to touch xlights..., if they do want to dig deeper after that, xlights or other sequencing software would be waiting.

In the end, I believe this will benefit the community in getting people into some beefier/more robust hardware than wLED devices typically offer and get them on the right path to pixels. (aka would sell more boards from all vendors as FPP out of the box could do fun, fancy, themed effects. )

The barrier for entry would be vastly shrunk if not removed entirely.

Big Picture.

Eventually, I would love to see something evolve into a nice easy section where you can see all the populated models currently part of the configuration ( whether that's a full on xlights layout, or just a simple 200 count per port by default is no matter. )

then be able to select each one individually or group models together (a simple check box beside each model)

for groups, don't generate a matrix of the models still treat each model as single strands for these built in effects for ease of implementation,

Finally a drop down to select a running effect. maybe a "built in effects" on/off toggle. per model/port and/or all running "built in" effects with a multisync packet to also tell remotes about an all off. ( separate but not superseded by the real all lights off or current effects commands. ) This would give us controll with fpp commands, scripts, playlists, schedule, mqtt etc etc et..

Consider this should all be separate from current effects/background effects engine/framework where we define our tune too signs and things. this should really be defined/re-defined as overlay effects...

[808Myk]

I see great benefits for this to happen

[Roboman2582]

I agree. I would love the preset effects. I think this is a must! I have an older Holiday Coro controller and it has some cool preset in the test mode as well. Great idea guys

[rixound]

This would be a great hybrid solution for the project I'm working on with permanently installed whole room lighting all based on addressable pixel strips with 6,000+ pixels. Currently, you can send E1.31 data from xLights / FPP to a device running WLED firmware so you have the ability to run built in effects on a strip AND programmed sequences. I just learned that they can react to sound with LEDFX also and I think built in sound reactive support is in the works too. This dynamite combination does not yet exist for the great hardware & software in the Christmas LED controller space. They are of course, more specialized based on the original purpose but always expanding in capabilities. Built in effects & sound reactive mode would be valuable capabilities. Currently, one of the best boards that can run WLED is the Dig-quad. One limitation here the fact that they are WiFi only (based on esp32) which would be a challenge if you were trying to sync several WLED boards. With a large number of pixels the "Christmas" boards would provide a solution for a larger installation on a dedicated differential long range network, for example. I would emphatically agree that this would be cool and something worth supporting.

[CaffeinatedFunctionality]

Oh no! Why is this closed? This would be incredible! I hope there is a solution or plugin for this eventually

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

Oh no! Why is this closed? This would be incredible! I hope there is a solution or plugin for this eventually

this has been added to the master branch already as fpp commands . you will need to flip over to master branch , and use the new fpp command button to trigger the effect .. they are listed as wled_(effect name)

[CaffeinatedFunctionality]

Thank you!

[rsrubberducky]

"you will need to flip over to master branch" where would i see that?

[ghormann]

Watch around minute 27 of this video. https://youtu.be/8Cmy6-haWlo

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[rsrubberducky]

Oh ok thank you very much

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Watch around minute 27 of this video. https://youtu.be/8Cmy6-haWlo

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I upgraded to master but I don't see any of the wled commands under the fpp command button

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Oh ok thank you very much

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I upgraded to master but I don't see any of the wled commands under the fpp command button

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[MagicMountainMan]

I am also interested in how to trigger the effects but don't see wled commands.

[ravenridgelights-turtle]

You have to move over to master branch Then you can use it as effect

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I am also interested in how to trigger the effects but don't see wled commands.

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[MagicMountainMan]

According to the Developer Settings, I'm on the master branch already.

[dkulp]

Have you created a PixelOverlayModel with the layout and channel range that you need? The WLED effects operate on the PixelOverlayModels so if one isn't available, they won't appear.

[MagicMountainMan]

Yes I already had pixel overlay models created. I'm just an idiot though and didn't realize the command was overlay model effect and not just effect start. So now I do see all of the WLED effects. Sorry for the trouble.

[SmAsH-jl]

I still think we need a better way to manage and setup wled effects. Some sort of live Gui we can use to control effects on the fly would be nice.

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Have you created a PixelOverlayModel with the layout and channel range that you need? The WLED effects operate on the PixelOverlayModels so if one isn't available, they won't appear.

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[ravenridgelights-turtle]

We do need a gui I agree but I don't have the knowledge to do so and dan helped tons in getting the effects to work

On master branch they are there and I will post screen shoots later on how to control them

But @dkulp I would also like to see them in the preset options idk what that space is really planned for but that seems like a good spot for a gui for the command .. but once again this is if u or another dev have time ..

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