Based on your recent recommendation I bought an APA102 ledstrip instead of a WS2812b. At first I tested the strip with some random examples, worked great. Then I wanted to test it as an ambilight strip before I would cut it and start soldering and gluing it to the back of my monitor.
I wanted to load your script onto my arduino, but it threw an error. My APA102 ledstrip contains a clock and data pin and you need to pass both to FastLED.
So instead of just
Led_Pin = 6
You need
Data_Pin = 6Clock_Pin = 13
And then pass it to FastLED:
FastLED.addLeds<LED_TYPE, Data_Pin, Clock_Pin, COLOR_ORDER>(leds, Num_Leds);
Then the your script seems to work fine with the APA102.
dmadison
commented
6 years ago
Hi there,
Based on your recent recommendation I bought an APA102 ledstrip instead of a WS2812b. At first I tested the strip with some random examples, worked great. Then I wanted to test it as an ambilight strip before I would cut it and start soldering and gluing it to the back of my monitor.
I wanted to load your script onto my arduino, but it threw an error. My APA102 ledstrip contains a clock and data pin and you need to pass both to FastLED.
So instead of just
Led_Pin = 6You need
Data_Pin = 6Clock_Pin = 13And then pass it to FastLED:
FastLED.addLeds<LED_TYPE, Data_Pin, Clock_Pin, COLOR_ORDER>(leds, Num_Leds);Then the your script seems to work fine with the APA102.