[APP] SK6812 Ledstrip

Apps
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I’ve made an app for controlling your SK6812 ledstrip with the help of McLightning V3.

AppStore: https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/nl.jplekkerkerker.ledstrip/SK6812-Ledstrip/
Github: https://github.com/Grooviee/HomeyLedstrip
McLightning V3: https://github.com/FabLab-Luenen/McLighting

To use the app you have to connect your ledstrip to an ESP8266 board and install the McLighting software on that. Instructions for this can be found at https://github.com/toblum/McLighting/wiki/Software-installation.

The app supports setting 3 colors, dimlevel, theme and themespeed.

Flowcards

Actions

  • Change color
  • Change theme and speed

Donations

If you like this app and want to support the development you can donate some beer/coffee so that I can improve the app even further.

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2

Hi @Grooviee,

do these LED strips have an advantage against other LED strips?
Or are there any differences compared to other LED strips?

Thanks in advance
Dirk

3

The advantage is that the SK6812 also has a white led, besides the red, green and blue. That way you can have a warm white color instead of the colder white the red, green and blue combined create.

4

Thank you for this app, now I’ve finally been able to connect my running lights to Homey.

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It’s great works perfect. Is there a possibility to play with segments which you can control in mcLightning but not in Homey. I’ve got 8 segments and would like to control with flows the color/brightness etc. of each segment.

6

The app uses the REST API, which as far as I know doesn’t support the segments. I will check if there are other ways to change the color and on/off state, but I won’t think it’s possible at the moment. When you(or anyone else) has an idea how this is possible I would like to know so I can implement it.

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Thanks alot. I haven’t got time to look into the code… but when i do and find something i will let you know.

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Just looked into McLighting V3 looks like the REST V3 do support the segments.

{
“segment”: 1,
“start”: 72,
“stop”: 143,
“mode”: 1,
“fx_mode”: 24,
“speed”: 253,
“brightness”: 46,
“color”: [
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0,
0
],
“ws_fxopt”: 176,
“hostname”: “McLightingRGBW”,
“mqtt_host”: “192.168.xxx.xxx”,
“mqtt_port”: 1883,
“mqtt_user”: “mqtt_user”,
“mqtt_pass”: “mqtt-password”,
“ws_seg”: 2,
“ws_cnt”: 144,
“ws_rgbo”: “GRBW”,
“ws_pin”: 3,
“ws_trans”: true
}

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