nomadicsoul
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In 2021 I started my first display which was heavily based on Big W Genio Mirabella 250/500 strings of wifi controllable LEDs. The 240 versions are 2 wire and have RGB pixels, the 500 sets are also 2 wire but the more basic negative/positive swap for the 8 generic patterns.
I bought a set to test out if I could reverse engineer the Wifi API - my intention was to have a website people could scan a QR code to access on the letter box, which would then allow them to change colours and animation patterns on the lights. I got there in the end (and if there is interest I could do a full write up) but it was quite convoluted:
All the Kmart/BigW/Target/Bunnings smart christmas lights are using ESP2866 style chipsets which are linked to the Tuya Smart platform. The various Genio apps etc are just a skinned version of the Tuya base app. To make them controllable I:
- Registered them to Tuya app on my phone
- Assigned static IP on my router so they could be more easily addressed
- Registered as a developer for Tuya to get an API key, developer ket etc
- Ran a CLI script which then exposed the various UUID for each string of lights in my Tuya pp
- Used NodeRED and the Tuya plugin to then use JSON to send commands via Tuya Cloud to the lights to trigger various colours, animation modes
- Used WebSockets on a customer web page I made which in turn would send button presses (via JavaScript) to my NodeRED instance, which then triggered the various API calls for Tuya
This worked well, but I'm looking to WS2811 etc in 2022 (even maybe sequencing). I've invested quite a lot into the Big W product and would like to integrate them into xLights etc. Going via cloud would not be responsive enough, so would like to ditch the store controller and have them on DMX or 1.31 for instant feedback (and it cuts out the round trip to an overseas server too).
I've been looking at the Hanson Electronics site but it seems the 2 wire controller are for the more traditional (i.e. 500 string type set) which has the 8 animation modes (either green/blue or yellow/red on). Are there any third party controllers that could take command of the newer 2 wire RGB "addressable" pixels?
500x 2 wire 'traditional' animation lights: https://www.mirabellagenio.com.au/p...nio-wi-fi-500-led-multicoloured-fairy-lights/
240x 2 wire 'RGB individually controlled' animation lights: https://www.mirabellagenio.com.au/p...enio-wi-fi-240-led-colour-wheel-fairy-lights/
I bought a set to test out if I could reverse engineer the Wifi API - my intention was to have a website people could scan a QR code to access on the letter box, which would then allow them to change colours and animation patterns on the lights. I got there in the end (and if there is interest I could do a full write up) but it was quite convoluted:
All the Kmart/BigW/Target/Bunnings smart christmas lights are using ESP2866 style chipsets which are linked to the Tuya Smart platform. The various Genio apps etc are just a skinned version of the Tuya base app. To make them controllable I:
- Registered them to Tuya app on my phone
- Assigned static IP on my router so they could be more easily addressed
- Registered as a developer for Tuya to get an API key, developer ket etc
- Ran a CLI script which then exposed the various UUID for each string of lights in my Tuya pp
- Used NodeRED and the Tuya plugin to then use JSON to send commands via Tuya Cloud to the lights to trigger various colours, animation modes
- Used WebSockets on a customer web page I made which in turn would send button presses (via JavaScript) to my NodeRED instance, which then triggered the various API calls for Tuya
This worked well, but I'm looking to WS2811 etc in 2022 (even maybe sequencing). I've invested quite a lot into the Big W product and would like to integrate them into xLights etc. Going via cloud would not be responsive enough, so would like to ditch the store controller and have them on DMX or 1.31 for instant feedback (and it cuts out the round trip to an overseas server too).
I've been looking at the Hanson Electronics site but it seems the 2 wire controller are for the more traditional (i.e. 500 string type set) which has the 8 animation modes (either green/blue or yellow/red on). Are there any third party controllers that could take command of the newer 2 wire RGB "addressable" pixels?
500x 2 wire 'traditional' animation lights: https://www.mirabellagenio.com.au/p...nio-wi-fi-500-led-multicoloured-fairy-lights/
240x 2 wire 'RGB individually controlled' animation lights: https://www.mirabellagenio.com.au/p...enio-wi-fi-240-led-colour-wheel-fairy-lights/