any tips to get WS2811 strips working?

[fabsenet]

Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks Shane.

p.s running Windows 10

Originally posted by @shanosburgess in #69 (comment)

[fabsenet]

@shanosburgess: I extracted your question into a new issue for clarity.

You need to change this line in the arduino code:

adrilight/Arduino/adrilight/adrilight.ino

Line 38 in fa6311c

FastLED.addLeds<WS2812B, LED_DATA_PIN, GRB>(leds, NUM_LEDS);

WS2812B is the LED strip type.

Start here to find out, what you may want to change:
https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Chipset-reference

If this does not work, I am most probably not able to help you much further, sorry. I simply do not have experience with every LED strip out there.

[shanosburgess]

Hi, that seems to have done the trick it is now communicating with the lights, I think I need to mess around to find the correct order for RGB now lol
I have a couple of other questions though, when I try to set the position of the detection zones the left edge and top edge are not making contact with the screen they overhang so when trying to remove black bars I am to high at the top etc. also can you recommend a media player to use? when I try VLC in full screen the lights just go off.

Z wyrazami szacunku i podziękowania za pomoc Shane

[Kaitoukid93]

for ws2811 RGB order. just keep the LED type "WS2812B" and change the order to "BRG"

[fabsenet]

the preview of the detection zones is messed up in v2.0.7 (see #68).

I had no trouble with any media player lately. Except the original netflix windows 10 app sets a "protected content" flag and adrilight only sees the media player controls but not the actual video content.

I know you can change the media renderer in vlc (d3d, direct draw, ...) in the settings. this may have an effect. are you playing some specific video or does it happen with any video? (resolution, color depth, codec, ...)

Byłem bardzo szczęśliwy mogąc ci pomóc!

[shanosburgess]

I will have a play around with the settings on vlc when I get up in the loft next (when wife is out lol)
and report back to you.