Arlec 5V RGB Stake Lights intergration - from Bunnings

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Grabbed these from Bunnings as I saw they had a 3 wire interface.
Solid win, this is connected to an ESP8266 running the FastLED demo but it works, they are some kind of WS281* chip at 5V
Ill drop them onto the PiHat running FPP shortly.

$99 - not to bad considering its getting to late to order from ray wu
 

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s.smith said:
Grabbed these from Bunnings as I saw they had a 3 wire interface.
Solid win, this is connected to an ESP8266 running the FastLED demo but it works, they are some kind of WS281* chip at 5V
Ill drop them onto the PiHat running FPP shortly.

$99 - not to bad considering its getting to late to order from ray wu
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That's good!
Are they running at 800khz or 400khz?
 
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Mark_M said:
That's good!
Are they running at 800khz or 400khz?
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not to sure, I cant see the chip as its a tiny, opaque bulb (i wasnt convinved there was an IC in there its so small).

Ill do some tests later tonight and see what I can come up with. Is there an easy way to tell?
 
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Interesting peace stake concept. Be curious to know the current draw, especially with those fine wires.
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yeah ill have to have a look. The default controller was definetly dimmer compared to 100% output on FPP.
This is the pixel, I see melted cables in my future :p

The supplied PSU is 2A 10W

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Mark_M said:
Those little seed pixels work well for small groups.
Certainly more than 50 need power injection.
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yeah my plan was to use the PSU supplied and just run them off an ESP8266 with some e1.31 -> NeoPixel code
Then its not connected to any of the big stuff.

And the default setup had 'All White', hopefully she'll be right for power injection, we shall see how it goes at 100% output though.
 
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run them off an ESP8266 with some e1.31 -> NeoPixel code
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Are you doing any pixels with xLights?

WLED is a great project for controlling pixels with an ESP82/32. Has a web GUI and app, no programming needed.
Or there is ESPixelStick firmware.

Both allow for xLights to send data to them.
 
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Mark_M said:
Are you doing any pixels with xLights?

WLED is a great project for controlling pixels with an ESP82/32. Has a web GUI and app, no programming needed.
Or there is ESPixelStick firmware.

Both allow for xLights to send data to them.
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Yep got it working with xlights before the rain hit. Does 130 pixels no issues.

I did try ESPixelStick but their flash tool would not work. I ended up using the underlying e1.31 lib from ForkInTheEye as it’s Example sketch had everything. So no coding in the end 😂
And I use WLED and tasmota for home stuff, I assumed mqtt would be to slow for a light display though?
 
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s.smith said:
I assumed mqtt would be to slow for a light display though
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Yes, but can use it to start WLED presets. WLED has a setting that will automagically change over to e1.31 data when present
 
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