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Flickerstrip / FlickerstripApp

The control app for the Flickerstrip LED strip
http://flickerstrip.com
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Holding button fails to turn strip off #4

Closed danhartline closed 8 years ago

danhartline commented 8 years ago

The "couch" strip did not turn off by holding the button down for 10 sec. (the tree strip did in ~3 sec). Exiting the program did not help.

julianh2o commented 8 years ago

Try resetting the strip by unplugging it and plugging it back in. Then hold the button to turn it off.

danhartline commented 8 years ago

Tried that -- now the strip won't turn on at all, whether I hold the button before pluggig in or wait until after.

julianh2o commented 8 years ago

The one on the sofa is the newest version of the firmware. You will NEVER have to hold the button down on that one as you plug it in. Instead reset it by unplugging it and replugging it. Then, once the unit is on, tap the button once.

julianh2o commented 8 years ago

This seems to have been a hardware issue with your particular Flickerstrip.. I added a hack to fix yours and I'll monitor future units.

danhartline commented 8 years ago

It has been working like a charm at Laukahi (of course, I have left it plugged in). There was some initial "settling in" when I first set it up and was getting the wifi properly initialized, but no problems since (I turn it on every evening when it gets dark - have some ideas on new patterns but haven't had time to implement them yet). When I had to turn off the wifi for a bit to fix a faulty connection the Flickerstrip showed up as a separate "router" on the wifi menu (I guess when the router disappeared for a bit, it reverted to its own channel?), but it "cured" itself and the software has been working on the regular router channel again (I'm not sure how do describe it accurately -- I take it the Flickerstrip changes its wifi channel somehow to listen to the one the computer is communicating with rather than its default channel?). I installed the 3D-printed case -- perfect fit. The circuit board is protected now. Pua loves the strip -- you could market it as parrot entertainment :-).

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BTW, I read up a little on wifi channels -- it sounds as if I should try to set the wifi to channels 1, 6 or 11 to get top speed (haven't figured out how to do that yet :-). Will that screw up Flickerstrip (or for that matter the Laukahi printer)?

This seems to have been a hardware issue with your particular Flickerstrip.. I added a hack to fix yours and I'll monitor future units.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/Flickerstrip/FlickerstripApp/issues/4#issuecomment-180109656

Daniel K. Hartline Research Professor and Director Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology Pacific Biosciences Research Center University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96822 www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~danh

julianh2o commented 8 years ago

Changing the WiFi channel shouldn't affect Flickerstrip's connectivity. Glad to hear everything is working well now!

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:41 PM danhartline notifications@github.com wrote:

It has been working like a charm at Laukahi (of course, I have left it plugged in). There was some initial "settling in" when I first set it up and was getting the wifi properly initialized, but no problems since (I turn it on every evening when it gets dark - have some ideas on new patterns but haven't had time to implement them yet). When I had to turn off the wifi for a bit to fix a faulty connection the Flickerstrip showed up as a separate "router" on the wifi menu (I guess when the router disappeared for a bit, it reverted to its own channel?), but it "cured" itself and the software has been working on the regular router channel again (I'm not sure how do describe it accurately -- I take it the Flickerstrip changes its wifi channel somehow to listen to the one the computer is communicating with rather than its default channel?). I installed the 3D-printed case -- perfect fit. The circuit board is protected now. Pua loves the strip -- you could market it as parrot entertainment :-).

D

BTW, I read up a little on wifi channels -- it sounds as if I should try to set the wifi to channels 1, 6 or 11 to get top speed (haven't figured out how to do that yet :-). Will that screw up Flickerstrip (or for that matter the Laukahi printer)?

This seems to have been a hardware issue with your particular Flickerstrip.. I added a hack to fix yours and I'll monitor future units.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

https://github.com/Flickerstrip/FlickerstripApp/issues/4#issuecomment-180109656

Daniel K. Hartline Research Professor and Director Bekesy Laboratory of Neurobiology Pacific Biosciences Research Center University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96822 www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/~danh

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Flickerstrip/FlickerstripApp/issues/4#issuecomment-180547842 .