More sophisticated led patterns in led-sw

[MerlijnWajer]

To be clear, low priority, but I wanted to document this at least.

Currently led-sw allows for r/g/b + on timeout and off timeout.

I wonder if we can add something for multiple points in time, and define how to get to those points.

I guess each point would be have:

• r/g/b value
• type: constant, or ramp-to-next-point
• time for point (for constant, just keep it at this value, for ramp-to-next-point, interpolate with values of next point over time)

[MerlijnWajer]

These are the Fremantle default LED patterns:

[MerlijnWajer]

Of course, these patterns would have to be written keeping in mind that changing the LEDs all the time causes a lot of wakeups, so going super fancy does not make a lot of sense, but some patterns (like: charging) could potentially be more fancy. And then users could decide if they wanted different/more fancy patterns at the cost of some battery life.

[IMbackK]

i dont agree with making led-sw more fancy at all. besides the powerconsuption concerns, every device (except pp idk there) has the ability to do patterns in hw. we should do fancy patterns there and led-sw is just a (simple) fallback

[IMbackK]

im going to close this as wontfix, since i dont think doing so makes any sense.
If this kind of pattern is desired device specific modules are needed, like led on cpcap-uc