This isn’t so much pattern management, as obviating the need to manage patterns while in a group. The patterns from the leader are used, and the patterns that are installed on the followers doesn’t change and isn’t needed/used at all unless they leave the group.
So on pattern change the leader will send the pattern code out to the follower pixelblazes over the network? Regardless this still gets rid of the step where I have to copy the pattern to all my pixelblazes in my network before checking to make sure everything looks good. Huge improvement in the development loop!
Each Pixelblaze can have its own pixel map. Using the fake pixel trick, you can divvy up the world coordinate space across multiple individual pixel maps. Or use the nodeId() in pattern code with the coordinate transformation api.
Ah yes ok this is the same thing I do. Cool to know you can use nodeId() in the pattern code though, that makes it a little less manual to do the mapping on each Pixelblaze.