[DIY] AtmoOrb - A Hue like mood lamp based on Particle Photon with NeoPixel - *Tutorial added* (2 Viewers)

[Rick164]

Reverted the "don't send color info on same color change" as in some cases it will cause an issue during turn off / clear led events as it might miss it due to WiFi packet loss and leave the Orbs on, gonna work on a better implementation for that but most likely gonna require Hyperion core changes as well as right now it's impossible to detect that reliably.

 

[pur_berger]

Hello,

a quick one - for area selection where is 0/0 and where 100/100? So if I want for example select 1/4 in the lower left corner - what values do I need to use?

THX

 

[Rick164]

Basically you have 2 values for vertical and horizontal so if you want to only scan the top left corner it would be:

Vscan: 50 <-- scan 50% of vertical screen space
Hscan: 50 <-- scan 50 % of horizontal screen space

Can invert zone if you want if for the top right one

Btw for the Hyperion users there's a core change that will make sure it doesn't keep on sending when there's no new data, it's already in the beta branch

https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion/commit/c7fbdce5dc7fde8b8e188320408dc547b9ad5e51

 

[pur_berger]

What I'm seeing is that after about - 15 minutes proton will stop receiving data - when I "reset" it (either through the android app - with "LED Off" or unplug it) it works again ...

 

[Rick164]

Which color is the internal led blinking when it stops receiving?

 

[pur_berger]

blue constantly flashing. What I now have also seen that if you leave it it will come back and some sort of works of the last 8 seconds of colors and works ok afterwards again.

 

[Rick164]

Blue pulsing means it lost connection or was rebooted into listening mode:

https://docs.particle.io/guide/getting-started/modes/photon/

Could be a couple of causes:

- WiFi connection lost (range / compatibility)
- Heat or bad solder connection
- Make sure to use the latest sketch

8 seconds before coming back does sound like a WiFi disconnect so if possible would check the AP logs and if the AP has any multicast throttling / buffer options best to disable as well.

 

[pur_berger]

Ok - sorry - accrding to the list it's "breathing"

 

[Rick164]

So it's breathing blue when the error occurs?

 

[pur_berger]

mhm.