ESP32 Substitute For Lighting Show Controller

As an organization, NanoLeaf has been producing modular lights that may be simply snapped collectively into numerous geometric shapes for round a decade. Similar to the addressable LED mild strips many people are conversant in that additionally turned common round a decade in the past, these modular lights are presupposed to be simple to configure, customise, and program. But their controllers are notoriously finicky in accordance with [Myrik] who discovered that a simple ESP32 could be used to replace them when they eventually fail.

Part of the rationale [Myrik] discovered this to be easy is that the corporate publishes their firmware and makes it primarily out there to anybody. Whether or not this was purposeful will not be clear; however in both case it solely requires slight modification to run on the ESP32. When plugged into an present string of panels, the panels themselves report their positions and orientations over a single information bus which the ESP32 has no drawback deciphering. The ESP32 may talk its standing over the community, that means that it might probably in flip be managed by every other lighting software program a consumer may need.

There’s a separate Reddit post about this construct as, with different customers providing different potential options to the controller challenge. But we’re at all times blissful to see extra open options to {hardware} failures which maintain fascinating issues like these out of the e-waste pile, or simply building NanoLeaf-inspired replicas from the ground up in the first place.