Brightlight is a lighting controller for pixel addressable LED strips, intended for domestic mood lighting.

It has two parts. A low level controller responsible for generating the LED strip waveforms, written in Arduino C using the Teensy 3.x controller.

A website interface to control one or more Teensy boards via USB. This is written in GO and runs on a raspberry Pi or similar.

• Install Arduino 1.6.3
• Install Teensyduino 1.26
• Alternatively use PlatformIO

• Download RASPBIAN STRETCH LITE
• Create a (4G) SD card with etcher
• Create a new file called "ssh" on the SD card's FAT boot partition. This will enable the SSH daemon immediately after the first boot.
• SSH onto pi from Windows or Mac (default password raspberry)

ssh pi@192.168.0.XXX

• On pi set up auto start

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

• On pi in nano add

export BRIGHTLIGHT=/home/pi
/home/pi/brightlight > /dev/null 2>&1 &

• On PC build website and brightlight executable

full-build.bat

• On PC copy executable to pi

scp  ./brightlight pi@192.168.0.XXX:/home/pi

• On pi make executable run-able

sudo chmod +x ./brightlight 

• On pi create folder

mkdir ui2 

• On PC copy ui files to pi

scp -r ./ui pi@192.168.0.XXX:/home/pi
scp -r ./ui2/build pi@192.168.0.XXX:/home/pi/ui2

• Reboot

sudo reboot

• Killing running copies

sudo killall -q -9 brightlight

https://golang.org/dl/

https://www.jetbrains.com/go/

With ANSI terminal emulator enabled for logrus

#####UI

• Scrolling slider for config setting is horrid

#####Engine

• Candle
• Fair ground light chasers
• Static string (Gazebo lights)
• Overlay pieces (corner + mirror)
• Clock
• Security indicators
• Fade between animations
• Cylon stacking
• Plasma charging bulls
• Meteors
• Fireworks
• Support for alexa