Beetle v0.1.0

Beetle v0.1.0

The first release of Beetle: control an ELK-BLEDOM Bluetooth LED strip from Windows.

Strip control

• Connects over Bluetooth LE from the strip's live advertisement (the strip does not pair with
  Windows) and reconnects to your strip on launch.
• Power on and off, a colour picker with hex entry and twelve presets, and hardware brightness.

Ambient mode

• Follows your screen about 25 times a second, easing the strip toward its colour.
• Colour mode: Average follows everything; Selective ignores black, white and greys and follows
  only the colours that are left, holding the last colour when there are none.
• Sample area: full screen, center, an edge, or any area you drag out.
• Colour boost brightens and saturates colourful areas while dark greys stay dark.

Lives in the tray

• Closing the window keeps Beetle and ambient mode running. The tray icon brings it back, or turns
  the strip on and off, starts and stops ambient, and quits.
• One copy per session: launching Beetle again shows the copy already running.

Install

• Beetle-Setup-0.1.0.exe installs per user with optional Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts and keeps
  your settings when you uninstall.
• Beetle runs on the .NET 10 runtime, which the installer does not bundle. If it is missing,
  Windows offers to download it the first time Beetle starts.