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Neopixel support

Open bennuttall opened this issue 8 years ago • 4 comments

A big task, but we should see if we can add neopixel support.

bennuttall avatar Aug 04 '17 10:08 bennuttall

check the pi neopixel library (https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x) for example code. since that is all built separately from rest of this system, it might take a fair bit of effort.

MauiJerry avatar Oct 23 '17 03:10 MauiJerry

I'd posit that these days, a library without Neopixel support will probably be ignored (with frustration) by a lot of people...

jantman avatar Jul 20 '23 22:07 jantman

Don't write comments like that. Open source maintainers don't owe you anything.

gpiozero had simple goals to make it easier for educators to teach basic physcial computing. We expanded the library a lot but things like I2C and neopixels add a whole layer of complexity to it. There are other libraries you can use to control neopixels and you can use them alongside gpiozero.

bennuttall avatar Jul 21 '23 09:07 bennuttall

I'd posit that these days, a library without Neopixel support will probably be ignored (with frustration) by a lot of people...

Not a very kind thing to say!

You can successfully run GPIZERO & separate Neopixel / WS2812 library simultaneously

Perhaps you should try this ?

dsssssssss9 avatar Jul 21 '23 17:07 dsssssssss9