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eliotstocker / Light-Controller

To Control lights from companys such as limitless LED etc
http://eliotstocker.github.io/Light-Controller/
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Make app more accurately portray the color of the light #8

Open dudeofawesome opened 9 years ago

dudeofawesome commented 9 years ago

To do this, we would store the color we last set the light to, assume it hasn't changed since then, and set the UI to match that. This should include setting the location of the knob on the color ring.

eliotstocker commented 9 years ago

yeah thats doable, just annoying that we cant get it from the controller for multiple apps etc

dudeofawesome commented 9 years ago

Do you have a handle on who actually produces these bulbs and bridges? I noticed there is a software update button in the bridge's local website. I wonder if we could get a copy of the source for the bridge and patch it to be able to send the current color back to the user. Obviously, this still suffers from the fact that the physical controllers don't interact with the bridge.

eliotstocker commented 9 years ago

no cant say i do i believe they are some sort of Chinese solution underneath all of the branding ill do some digging and see if i can uncover anything

eliotstocker commented 9 years ago

Local state saving is now implemented, more work needs to be done on the state syncing etc between devices.

mrwhale commented 9 years ago

@applamp_api or @limitlessLED they should have a grasp on the firmware. Would be awesome if we could get a hold of the source for this (hopefully its running a small linux/unix distro, would make it nice and customisable to include a database to hold info). If anyone is keen to do it themselves, https://github.com/riptidewave93/RFLED-Server

Modify and RPi to emulate the wifibridge, and all you'd then need to do in install a database to keep light state/color etc, and make that info available via http etc etc

nagelm commented 9 years ago

When I was trawling the web looking for info on this hardware about 8 months ago I came across Futlight who as best I can tell are the manufacturers for all of these wifi lights and the makers of the MiLight software. I have seen comments on other forums where Stijn & Hamish post [Geekzone.co.nz; Ninjablocks forums] but noone has ever confirmed my suspicions (and fair enough too if they are trying to protect their source).

I gave up looking for info on the transceivers which the bridge/bulbs use. But your idea is much simpler (and more likely to work), I like it. Would be very interested to hear what Stijn & Hamish have to add otherwise I'll see what I can find out.

mrwhale commented 9 years ago

For those interested, this is all I could find on the matter Someone modded their pi to work as the bridge, so sortof finds out what hardware is used: http://servernetworktech.com/2014/09/limitlessled-wifi-bridge-4-0-conversion-raspberry-pi/

This guy makes a youtube vid for the above blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_swGkuTqw4

Some guy in the comments of above finds out hardware deets of wifi bridge: http://www.szkexinda.com/Upload/PicFiles/2014.2.8_9.21.48_1259.pdf

But as you said @nagelm, I believe the futlight guys are the OEM of the devices - and occording to some stuff on the limitless site, Hamish helped developed the devices and then gets the overseas manufacturers to make (so it keeps things cheap!)

http://www.limitlessled.com/about-limitlessled/

As for the lights, I pulled a broken one apart over the weekend, so I can send pciture to anyone interested in seeing whats inside. Couldn't find much on the internet with the prduct ID's on the circuit boards, however

AppLamp-API commented 9 years ago

Yeah FUTLIGHT is the manufacturer, but they also use other chinese companies for the tech... so they outsource all engineering... that really sucks because we have a lot of improvement ideas, and we never get there.

On 1/30/2015 02:25, nagelm wrote:

When I was trawling the web looking for info on this hardware about 8 months ago I came across Futlight http://www.futlight.com/ who as best I can tell are the manufacturers for all of these wifi lights and the makers of the MiLight software. I have seen comments on other forums where Stijn & Hamish post [Geekzone.co.nz; Ninjablocks forums] but noone has ever confirmed my suspicions (and fair enough too if they are trying to protect their source).

I gave up looking for info on the transceivers which the bridge/bulbs use. But your idea is much simpler (and more likely to work), I like it. Would be very interested to hear what Stijn & Hamish have to add otherwise I'll see what I can find out.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/eliotstocker/Light-Controller/issues/8#issuecomment-72138272.

eliotstocker commented 9 years ago

@AppLamp-API you dont have a wifi bridge without it clothes on you could send us a picture of do you? if so we may see some JTAG connectors with which we might get into the Software

AppLamp-API commented 9 years ago

Vriendelijke groet, Stijn De Ryck www.applamp.nl http://www.applamp.nl T: +31(0)307370522

[logo] http://www.applamp.nl

The WiFi board used is HF-LPT100 http://www.hi-flying.com/products_detail/&productId=d7fa2397-c1ee-4e4f-89c3-600a864861de&comp_stats=comp-FrontProducts_list01-111.html See the documents section on that page: Data Sheet

　Title 　Description
Version

Time 　HF-LPT100 User Manual http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=253ccee8-9a9e-45dd-933d-19e5dd607c1d&fileId=9dae0180-3725-47ba-85c5-a91d7131eef5 　HF-LPT100 User Manual
1.7

2014.10.14 　HF-LPT100_EVK_Design_Package http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=b31cef59-2088-4284-bf29-4afe5212bcb1&fileId=d3fbfd1e-00c9-4003-8b86-0701718182df 　HF-LPT100_EVK_Design_Package
1.2

2014.04.16 　EVK_Quick_Start_Guide http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=a974580c-9a9b-4329-a554-6bd54aa8500d&fileId=b545c662-4ec7-49a4-aea4-e0997f062a62 　EVK_Quick_Start_Guide 1.0 2013.12.23 　Mass Production Upgrade Tool http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=6c5e27a4-2199-4314-8b52-131d05013b50&fileId=07bc0a59-0a0d-4fb4-a5e5-c3403f09ab08 　Mass Production Upgrade Tool 1.0 2014.03.06 　Customized webpage manual http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=6c5e27a4-2199-4314-8b52-131d05013b50&fileId=07bc0a59-0a0d-4fb4-a5e5-c3403f09ab08 　Customized webpage manual 1.0.1 2014.10.22 　WiFi connection guideline http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=1e300973-a434-4e26-8151-df498e3485d8&fileId=2bfa924c-9805-445f-8bbb-e7aa846a362c 　WiFi connection guideline 1.0 2014.12.09 　HF LP Series pins mapping table http://www.hi-flying.com/downloadsfront.do?method=picker&flag=all&id=94788c61-8a61-443e-b2db-7d0252f79bab&fileId=fba58796-9918-4c82-9ae5-16221b9f4842 HF LP Series pins mapping table 1.0 2014.12.09

For RF also the PL1167 is used I don't see dedicated JTAG pins but see for yourself, it's easy to open on the bottom with a fine screwdriver inbetween the plastic!

Cheers, Stijn

On 1/30/2015 10:03 AM, Eliot Stocker wrote:

@AppLamp-API https://github.com/AppLamp-API you dont have a wifi bridge without it clothes on you could send us a picture of do you? if so we may see some JTAG connectors with which we might get into the Software

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/eliotstocker/Light-Controller/issues/8#issuecomment-72172439.