this project is no longer maintained. Please see https://github.com/sticilface/Melvanimate for current project. Thanks

*Credits to Makuna for Neopixelbus *Credits to Forineye for E131

To compile this project requries

1. https://github.com/Makuna/NeoPixelBus/tree/UartDriven
   Must git checkout UartDriven
   
2. https://github.com/forkineye/E131
   
3. PubSubClient https://github.com/Imroy/pubsubclient
   
4. Simple Timer https://github.com/infomaniac50/SimpleTimer
   

The ESP must be set to 160Mhz, ideally with 1Mbyte of flash to allow OTA to work.

This is one of my first sketches, it is rough around the edges but seems to work well enough. Features include:

1. Control up to 250 LEDs with animation support, more without animations.
2. Colour RGB picker
3. Advanced palette control, choose from 7 different including random (the tick box selects random colour)
4. MQTT commands control mostly everything.
5. Web Interface does control everything.
6. Control LEDs using ADALIGHT via serial, DMX or UDP via wifi.
7. 9 different, highly customisable effects and animations.
8. LED configurations in strips, or spiral, (grid support not implemented yet).
9. 10 effects can be saved to EEPROM along with their configuration, and restored.
10. mDNS support, OTA update,

Instructions

First compile and flash to ESP8266 using the arduino IDE.

First boot of ESP should make an AP that you can join. Navigate to http://192.168.4.1/wifi and configure wifi settings, device name and MQTT server. Press submit, wait 30 seconds, and hit refresh. It should now give you the IP address it has recieved. This bit seems to be a bit shakey, with the ESP rebooting, sometimes it works fine...

Currently the WS2812 LEDs must be attached to GPIO2, I've found best results to use this as a level converter - 74HCT245N.

MQTT commands.

These follow the devicename/command/set in general and once values have been set the value is sent out using devicename/command.

• devicename/brightness/set - brightness (0 - 255)
• devicename/timer/set - timer (0 - 255)
• devicename/effect/set - sets the effect, use name of effect
• devicename/mode/set - on / off / 1 - 10 for presets
• devicename/toggle/set - toggle (Turns it on if off, and cycle through the saved effects)
• devicename/loadpreset/set - loads saved preset
• devicename/savepreset/set - saves preset
• devicename/autorestart/set - on / off (Turns autorestart on/off so ESP restarts whatever it was doing before)
• devicename/colour/set or /color/set sets colour.

Select from the CONFIG hyperlink. These are all in the range 0 - 255. Not all of them have functions for all the effects. Set the number of pixels here at the bottom. Just experiment with the settings. The important setting here is the Total X option that specifies how many pixels are in the x for grids. Currently only works for zig-zag orientation.

Squares - Random squares or strips when used with a linear strip. Control size using effect size, number of squares with effect count. Squares random is the same effect but with random sizes of square set by the min and max effect size.

Snakes - This effect is rather cool, and very flexible :) pixels move around leaving a tail. size of tail is set with the effect size. Again, the number of effects can be changed. Play around with it. Snakes overlap relaxes the rules about overwriting an animating pixel so you get a slightly different effect. These effects can produce plasma type effects, very lava lamp like.

These are a bit work in progress and not all effects use them in the same way. In general, by picking a palette the effects and colours that are created are based on that palette. Exlaining these is quite complicated, see here http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-harmonies.htm for better examples. In general the palette range box in CONFIG gives the spread of the palette, and the number of colours gives the number of colours for that palette. This applies only for even-spread palette. complementary always has 2 colours, triadic has 3 etc, Tetradic has 4 ...

• ALL = All colours, so this essentially means random colours
• Complementary = Two colours, on opposite sides of the HSL colour wheel
• Monochromatic = NOT WORKING YET
• Analogous = Three colours, original plus two to the right. The spread is given by the (palette range) option in CONFIG where the amount is 10 / range. So if you enter 50 in the palette range box you will get three colours spread over 0.2 in HSL colour space.
• Split-Complements = 3 colours.
• Triadic = 3 colours.
• Tetradic = 4 colours
• Even-Spread = Takes the number of colours in palette and spread them around the HSL colours space
• Wheel = Not really working properly