I’m new to pixelblaze, but not new to LEDs strips or matrices, been doing my own for around 8 years now, and been using either my own code to power my strips, or more recently the Vrabocry WS2811 WS2812B LED Controller Bluetooth Music with MIC, which honestly have been an incredible value for $10, and the fact that they work with bluetooth has been useful for my wearables.
I got a couple of V3 picos and was wondering how I get 100+ patterns on them like my existing controller I just mentioned. I know about the website where I can download patterns one by one, but I’d like to save time and ideally get a bundle of best extra patterns and load them up all at once, so I can have pixelblaze get close enough to what my existing controller already has in amount of patterns.
Is there a way to do that? More generally for simple 1D patterns, what’s the practical limit of how many I can load before running out of memory (yes, I understand it depends on the code complexity of each pattern)?
Hi @marcmerlin ,
Once you have everything set up like you want, you can download a backup archive of the whole thing. Look for that on the settings tab.
Thanks, this is helpful for later indeed, avoiding slow and repetitive manual loop.
but that’s exactly the loop i’m trying to avoid when setting it up, if I want to add 50 patterns, I’m not really interested in adding them one by one by downloading form the site and importing the pattern manually, it seems like it would take hours of painstaking work.
Is there not a way to automate that, or is there not an already made archive with a lot more patterns than I can just load all at once?
Just the bunch it ships with currently. The next release has some integration with the pattern site that makes it one click to try/install. But that’s not released.
thanks for the update, much appreciated.
In the meantime, am I correct that then it would just take one person to go through work of importing all those patterns one by one, make a backup of the combined result, and post it for others to be able to use without re-doing all the manual work?
If so, is there someone who already did it, and can post their backup?
