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Support of matrix

Open wunderbaum opened this issue 6 years ago • 20 comments

Hi, is there any plan to support such led arrays:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000345359803.html

wunderbaum avatar Jan 23 '20 13:01 wunderbaum

Matrix is WS2812B so it's supported by project.

srg74 avatar Jan 23 '20 14:01 srg74

@wunderbaum, you can define 16 segments with 16 pixel each, then the selected effect will show across the whole pannel.

Def3nder avatar Jan 23 '20 16:01 Def3nder

Yes, matrixes are supported, but there are no effects yet that take advantage of them. That is planned, but there are a few more features i'd like to add first.

16 segments are unfortunately not possible, 10 is the limit right now.

Aircoookie avatar Jan 23 '20 16:01 Aircoookie

Ok, thanks for the quick response! When I order now, it takes 6 weeks Is it worth it?

wunderbaum avatar Jan 23 '20 22:01 wunderbaum

@wunderbaum those matrices definitely look cool even with most of the 1D WLED effects. If you are interested in E1.31 driving (e.g. Vixen, xLights), you can also use 2D effects. So I would say, go for one :)

Aircoookie avatar Jan 24 '20 22:01 Aircoookie

this is my matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjyDDL7gY1I&t=33s thanks @Aircoookie

yusufsulaiman avatar Jan 25 '20 12:01 yusufsulaiman

Yes, matrixes are supported, but there are no effects yet that take advantage of them. That is planned, but there are a few more features i'd like to add first.

16 segments are unfortunately not possible, 10 is the limit right now.

I hope you will add support for LED matrix. since rocket life has ceased to exist you have a great angle to play.

KaizenKuba avatar Feb 05 '20 13:02 KaizenKuba

I’d really like to see matrix support. I’ve got WLED running on the M5Stack Atom Matrix board which is a micro 5x5 led matrix and esp32 configuration (about an inch cube). The web interface is a little slow but would be very cool if some matrix effects were available.

tkerby avatar Mar 01 '20 12:03 tkerby

hi @tkerby can you share how you got Wled running on the Atom Matrix? thanks

alperkal avatar Apr 07 '20 20:04 alperkal

Another vote for matrix, and to suggest option for each row / column to have different length and base offset from center to enable layout of a matrix within any convex polygon and not just rectangles. For some shapes such as triangle or parallelogram, ability to do a half 'pixel' offset for rows would be nice to have and still see fx display accurately.

16 sounds like a nice power of 2 for segments, if resources allow for it.

djasonic avatar Aug 23 '20 19:08 djasonic

Any news on matrix support? I'm a big fan of WLED and would love to see some 2D effects on my 16x16 led matrix.

jlaitinen81 avatar Dec 14 '20 09:12 jlaitinen81

@jlaitinen81

Matrixes work out of the box. I have 3 x 32 x 8 WS2812s chained into 96x8 strip. It works great.

What I am having issues with is scrolling text. I can not get Jinx to produce any output whatsoever, QLC+ works, but produces ugly output and completely unreliable. Within 30 seconds some letters just flip upside down and start producing a tail that never goes away. I am not familiar with DMX on WLED and whatever help resources exist, they are rather cryptic, incomplete or outdated.

pruchai avatar Jan 08 '21 15:01 pruchai

I can not get Jinx to produce any output whatsoever

I was having this issue to and found that using the output patch from the setup menu I could click the fast patch button and after doing that it would work.

jneilliii avatar Jan 17 '21 09:01 jneilliii

How to make a 16x16 matrix and 2D effects work?

viktor6 avatar Nov 30 '21 20:11 viktor6

Use soundreactive fork.

blazoncek avatar Nov 30 '21 20:11 blazoncek

@blazoncek I did not understand you

viktor6 avatar Nov 30 '21 20:11 viktor6

Vanilla WLED does not yet support matrices. Soundreactive fork does. Use Discord for support questions. Link on the front page.

blazoncek avatar Nov 30 '21 20:11 blazoncek

So, maybe anoyne can help me with 12 strips 8 pixel each (96 led total), zigzag connection? Do i need to make 12 segments with each 2nd with reverse order or there is special configuration?

p.s. Seems to found right config Screenshot_1

RBSVader avatar Jul 18 '22 10:07 RBSVader

As of May 2022 I am experimenting with 2D implementation. Alpha grade binaries are available from @srg74 in his Wemos Shield repository (check experimental folder). 2D support may be included in WLED 0.14 later this year.

blazoncek avatar Jul 18 '22 10:07 blazoncek

Thanks. Tried "sound reactive" 0.13.1 version (here), working well so far. Had to do factory reset, though, as Home Assistant integration stopped working. Now everything is okay. Thanks to all!

RBSVader avatar Jul 18 '22 12:07 RBSVader

0.14 will add 2D support for matrices.

blazoncek avatar Oct 10 '22 06:10 blazoncek