Scale led values

[arhuaco]

Hi Andrés and Kevin.

Could you normalize the scale of the LEDs somehow? This will make the everloop driver more useful.

[eighteyes]

I don't mind normalizing the scale from Matrix side. I'd rather have more control. I suspect certain colors make more lumens then others, and white throws it completely.

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Hi Andrés and Kevin.

Could you normalize the scale of the LEDs somehow? This will make the everloop driver more useful.

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[arhuaco]

Hi @eighteyes . In any case normalizing outside Matrix side is still good in case somebody uses the LEDs via MALOS or HAL.

[eighteyes]

I'd really like to keep the 0-255 range because then it maps to web colors nicely. That is all.

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[brianofrokk3r]

+1 for @eighteyes commit, like that it maps over to web colors nicely.

[arhuaco]

It's not that the colours shouldn't range between 0 and 255. The fact is that once they reach a small number (say 15) the intensity is too high and it is not useful to go beyond that.

[arhuaco]

IMHO this should be fixed in HAL or in a lower layer. I've discussed this with @eljuguetero a bit.

[brianofrokk3r]

@arhuaco the intensity normalized makes sense. I agree with you.

[Flowr-es]

I'm also palying with this and saw that the current maximum seems to be 50 (no documentation, so only assumed from the nodejs demo).

Offtopic: Is there a clean way to convert RGB to RGBW? Internet search delivered only this approach: R=R G=G B=B W=min(R, G, B)

[arhuaco]

Writing documentation for MALOS now. We should normalize the scale @eljuguetero... I wonder if the scale is linear. If we don't fix this here then we should limit the values that can be sent to MALOS because it feels weird to say that the range is [0,255] but that it doesn't make sense after 50.