Feature request - colorlight support

[howels]

Would be great to directly control colorlight without FPP in the chain.

[ewowi]

Great idea! Has it been done before ?

And the colorlight card needs a dedicated Ethernet connection, we need a board to drive that via a usb to Ethernet converter cable.
(P4 / s31...)

And preferably use the existing ethernet cable if we want to also receive artnet and send through

[howels]

Great idea! Has it been done before ?

And the colorlight card needs a dedicated Ethernet connection, we need a board to drive that via a usb to Ethernet converter cable. (P4 / s31...)

And preferably use the existing ethernet cable if we want to also receive artnet and send through

Yes - probably something we need at least ESP32-P4 or maybe a Linux host to drive as typically you are looking at tiling multiple panels and the buffer sizes are quite high for ESP32 (I am running 128x128 Hub75 on a patched WLED build and it's at the limit in terms of speed of updates and buffer sizes). Should be possible to use a single ethernet cable for modest setups, but a multi-homed gigabit Linux host would be needed for optimal performance.
The code is present in FPP and I also saw this https://github.com/kostaman/LED_Matrix-1

[ewowi]

It runs already on raspberry Pi see https://youtu.be/pL1zoCUo49o?is=_RcW-QIJaEZSGweN

That's also what I have setup, see https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonModules/s/WuxZZcB30m

But running on esp32 would be much more fun !

[howels]

It runs already on raspberry Pi see https://youtu.be/pL1zoCUo49o?is=_RcW-QIJaEZSGweN

That's also what I have setup, see https://www.reddit.com/r/MoonModules/s/WuxZZcB30m

But running on esp32 would be much more fun !

The point is not having to use FPP just to convert DDP to colorlight. FPP shouldn't be the only piece of software which does the colorlight protocol. Would make more sense to do this in ProjectMM as a single step and use the pi for something else (or run ProjectMM on the pi).

[troyhacks]

Looked into this and I would say it's possible - we don't have great capacity on the ESP32 family to receive a ton of packets, but there's no problem in sending a ton of packets! (As shown by the fact we can send DDP or Art-Net to FPP to a ColorLight card.

There's some extremely premlliminary ColorLight code in WLED-MM-P4 that's mostly AI faffing - and it doesn't work - but at one point I started, based mostly around the FPP ColorLight source code.

So I'd start with the FPP source if I were to hack on it again.

[ewowi]

There's some extremely premlliminary ColorLight code in WLED-MM-P4

How did you wire up using its own Ethernet protocol to the colorlight card? Using the p4 Ethernet plug or with usb to Ethernet connector? And did you manage to talk to the card via this ?