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florianL21 / LED-ClockShelf

Code base for a completely customizable and configurable LED clock using WS2812b RGB LEDs. Controllable via the Blynk app
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Change Colour without Blank #20

Open AndreHellmuth opened 1 year ago

AndreHellmuth commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to change the colors without the Blynk app? Unfortunately, Blynk has become very expensive to fully utilize. Greetings: André

florianL21 commented 1 year ago

Currently it is only possible to set the colors of the LEDs statically for certain sections. This is done in the Configuration.h file. For example here: https://github.com/florianL21/LED-ClockShelf/blob/master/lib/LED_clock/Config/Setup/diy-machines/Configuration.h#L101

Changing the colors during runtime without Blynk is not possible. But I have been using the free version of Blynk in the past and the documentation should show you a configuration that you should be able to use with the free version

Godzookee commented 7 months ago

I am wondering if Blynk has changed it's pricing model as currently it is only allowing 5 Datastreams under the free tier. If I am reading your documentation correctly we need 18.

Love the project by the way have been building mine for about 3 years now on and off. Finally I am on the homeward stretch. Hopefully only a few weeks to go. :)

florianL21 commented 5 months ago

Yeah that is quite possible sadly. I do want to pick this project back up and I am convinced that it should be quite easy to add support for setting everything up over MQTT and as a result also Home Assistant as there is an awesome library that makes interfacing with it extremely easy.

So maybe check back in a few months ;) Or if you are impatient contributions are always welcome

acircleda commented 3 months ago

I just built the clock and realize the free tier of Blynk is very limited. Any chance of supporting this idea, or integrating https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED-App ?

florianL21 commented 3 months ago

As far as I can tell the WLED app is quite dependent on controlling an actual WLED device. I am afraid this would require to really spend some effort on making this clock controller "look" like a WLED device which does not make much sense.

Like I said above, I do want to get an Integration with Home assistant working via MQTT using this library: https://github.com/dawidchyrzynski/arduino-home-assistant But I don't have very much time right now to implement this. So contributions are very welcome :)