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taburineagle / NeewerLite-Python

NeewerLite-Python is an un-official cross-platform Neewer LED light control app - written in Python, originally based off of the NeewerLite macOS Swift project by @keefo (Xu Lian)
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Enhancement Down the Line: Light mode/settings presets #23

Closed taburineagle closed 2 years ago

taburineagle commented 2 years ago
taburineagle commented 2 years ago

@fribse - This is the starting block of the custom presets section - not much to look at for the moment, just a list of parameters for the "default", non-custom preset settings, but it's the start...

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

It's coming along nicely @fribse! - I'm still kicking the tires on all of it thoroughly before setting it into the wild, but it's coming along nicely! There are 8 custom presets available - in the beginning, they're set up as 8 default presets, but there are also going to be 2 different kinds of custom presets you can sat any of those 8 slots to - "global" presets control one set of parameters for all lights selected (so, all white, all red, all 5600K @ 50%, etc,), and "snapshot" presets store the parameters of every single light at that point in time (or for specific lights, if you choose to only use a few instead of all of them), so you could, for example, have 2 lights set as a backdrop with 2 different HSI color settings, one side light in CCT mode for spotlight, and a fill light on the side, and one snapshot preset would set all of those parameters up at the same time. I've also coded a "preview" for the snapshot presets, that when you hover over a preset button that contains a snapshot preset, the table will highlight the affected lights in green to show which ones will change for that specific preset.

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fribse commented 2 years ago

Looks very promising!

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

Thanks! IT'S LIVE!! I just pushed the commit and made a new release - I'll do more properly showing all it can do in the future (a lot of family things going on at the moment, so I'm not 100% sure when I'll be able to do that!) - but I want to do a video showcasing all kinds of different preset configurations.

fribse commented 2 years ago

Darned, that IS really nice, didn't really figure out the way to set the presets until I f.... up my settings, but after that, it worked very nicely, and the light preferences with custom names, weehee, it's much easier to see which light is which then. One thing, and I guess that is by design, they don't store the 'on/off' state in the 'custom snap'?

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

Thanks! Ha, sorry about the settings - I want to more properly document the preset options, how to set and clear them, etc., in either the wiki, or a video, or both, but they're definitely versatile with what you can do with them! The latest commit (pushed yesterday) also adds a small tool tip on the lights that are affected, showing what their preset does to them (mode, hue, etc.) -

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They don't store the power setting yet, although that wouldn't be too hard to code in. I've been basically treating 0% as "power off" for that, because of the issue with the battery-only-powered Neewer lights (like the RGB176) shutting down entirely after a few minutes of being in standby mode.

fribse commented 2 years ago

Ahh, yes of course, didn't think of it like that, that's pretty clever, setting it to 0%, it would still be cool to be able to turn them off for the most of them, and just set 0% for the few that doesn't go into standby :-)

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

Right, right, got ya @fribse - I'm working on that now :) Haven't had a lot of time the last few days to work on it, but I wanted to do a "if the light is off, then store that" section, as well as turning lights on that have a value set that are currently off.

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

@fribse - I added that in! Note, for this to work (by design), the light has to actually be told to "be off" (it has to be turned off via the "Turn Light(s) Off" button) - when you store a snapshot preset, that value will be stored with it, so if you have one light off and 2 lights on in the preset, that light should turn off when clicking on that preset (if it's currently on), and turn on when clicking another stored snapshot preset with it not off.

fribse commented 2 years ago

Hey, that sounds very clever, I'll do an update later today :-)

taburineagle commented 2 years ago

Nice! I updated all of the documentation for custom presets on the Wiki too -

https://github.com/taburineagle/NeewerLite-Python/wiki/(1)-The-GUI-(Graphical-User-Interface)