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ambilight-like system with ESP8266 driver for WS2812s
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Boblightd on esp8266? #1

Open sethcohn opened 7 years ago

sethcohn commented 7 years ago

I've been looking at doing a boblightd implementation on a esp8266 (essentially replacing the "server" daemon with a combo that runs on the esp8266 and also drives the led strip (via i2s)

Ideally, this will mean that installing for example Kodi plugin for boblight on any platform, configuring to remotely point to esp8266 which is behind TV, LEDs in place, and "Bob's your uncle", it just works.

Did you base razorlight on boblight protocol? Looks fairly simple, I found a few simple python implementations of it already, if only micropython was fast enough to drive the ws2812s well (it's not yet)

cnlohr commented 7 years ago

I don't really use any protocol. They're just UDP frames. It should be relatively easy to get https://github.com/cnlohr/esp8266ws2812i2s to output very large numbers of WS2812's and/or support boblight.

Check it out. It's basically a network->ws2812b gateway.

Hope this helps.