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An Arduino library for GE Color Effects G-35 holiday lights.
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GE Color Effect G90 8 LED String #29

Open pmarq2008 opened 6 years ago

pmarq2008 commented 6 years ago

Hi, I am glad that I came across this thread. I was looking at how i could resurrect this 8 LED strand of lights. I have succesfully loaded this onto an Adafruit Arduino pro-trinket. The bulbs seem to be working correctly however obviously this is an 8 string set and your code is for 50 or higher. I am not very good at reverse engineering code yet so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction to have this work on the 8 String set? I would leave it the way it is but since it is only a fraction of LED's that the code has there are times that all of the LEDs are off.

Thanks for the help

medpixman commented 6 years ago

You can do a text search for "50" and one line of the code specifies the number of LEDs.

I had a string with 25 - and I just left the number at 50 - and it worked, but the pattern was a little different.

If I find some time, I look for another version where I was successful in changing the number to 25 - and you could then try 8.

I believe the line of code is where you "enumerate" the LEDs - the program assigns each of them a number from 0 - (total-1)

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Hi, I am glad that I came across this thread. I was looking at how i could resurrect this 8 LED strand of lights. I have succesfully loaded this onto an Adafruit Arduino pro-trinket. The bulbs seem to be working correctly however obviously this is an 8 string set and your code is for 50 or higher. I am not very good at reverse engineering code yet so I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction to have this work on the 8 String set? I would leave it the way it is but since it is only a fraction of LED's that the code has there are times that all of the LEDs are off.

Thanks for the help

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pmarq2008 commented 6 years ago

I will try that. I was able to get the Basic example to work with down to 4 of them once. Im not sure why but i cant get it to work now.

medpixman commented 6 years ago

I don't know ... sometimes I have to close the IDE completely and then re-start it and re-compile the program - because "bits" of the code reside in temporary files on my PC. I saw a post on that some time ago - and it was happening to me - especially when I do a lot of minor edits over and over.

Good luck!

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pmarq2008 commented 6 years ago

Is it possible that I could manually set the color of each bulb utilizing the BasicExample sketch and just change the loop section?

I believe it would be a line for each bulb of this lights.fill_color(0, LIGHT_COUNT, G35::MAX_INTENSITY, COLOR_RED); but what would i change in the parenthesis to call each bulb individually?

medpixman commented 6 years ago

That should work ... I think most of the functions/classes are used to make rapid changes to allow "animated" chasing sequences. You could certainly try the simple one-by-one color change and then progress to more complex color patterns, then moving or animated color patterns,

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I believe it would be a line for each bulb of this lights.fill_color(0, LIGHT_COUNT, G35::MAX_INTENSITY, COLOR_RED); but what would i change in the parenthesis to call each bulb individually?

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pmarq2008 commented 6 years ago

Do you know what the syntax would be to call each bulb individually?

medpixman commented 6 years ago

I have to go back ... I haven't programmed them in more than a year (I got the patterns I wanted, and then stopped) but I hope to dig back to the syntax for changing the color of one "bulb".

There are other program on GitHub for these LEDs - have you looked at others?

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pmarq2008 commented 6 years ago

All the ones i have found have a similar setup but I will keep looking. Its a project that i am probably spending to much time on for what its worth but one of those things you just want to get it working to say you did it. :-)

medpixman commented 6 years ago

That's how I approached it ... I might be able to send you my programs. There are conflicts between some of the libraries that I used - that was hard to troubleshoot and resolve.

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