Ledcontroller

An esp8266 based controller for ws2812 LED strips, written in Lua.

Development

Setup

1 These tools should be installed globally.

Install as follows:

$ npm install -g gulp
$ npm install -g nodemcu-tool
$ pip install nodemcu-uploader
$ pip install esptool

2 Then install other dependencies locally by running:

$ npm install

Upload the NodeMCU firmware

Just run:

$ ./flash.sh

Upload the files for the LED controller

Just run:

$ gulp

This will copy over all Lua files in src to the esp8266. If you run this command again it will only copy files that have been changed.

Run a Lua script from the bash prompt

There are two kinds of script that are invocable from the the bash prompt: commands and patterns. Both are stored in there respective folders. To run a script inside the 'command' folder, you can run:

$ ./run.sh <command>

To run a script inside the 'pattern' folder, you can run:

$ ./pattern.sh <command>

More

Here a few more things you can do:

Remove *.lc files from the esp8266

  $ ./remove_lc.sh 

Copy over all Lua files in src, changed or not

  $ gulp all

Reset the synchroniztion cache

Deletes all files in 'dist'.

  $ gulp clean # 

Fast dev cycle

Does the following 3 things in order:

1. copy modified files to esp8266
2. reboot esp3266
3. open serial connection to esp8266

$ ./cycle.sh

Lint your code Runs luacheck on your Lua files

$ gulp lint