I just tweak with max brightness in the settings with a switch between a PB and the light strip so when I send the PB into a reboot loop, I flip the switch and lower the max brightness in the settings by a point or two, repeat.
Yeah, I think that approach wouldn’t be a bad idea. Throw in a top-level var for the brightness once you find them for whatever… Then set brightness back to 100% and use the var in your patterns’ brightness in the render loops.
Hmm… It’s just a shame that the pixelblaze gets stuck into a reboot loop instead of detecting that outgoing amps is getting too high for the amps it’s able to get, and go “Wosh man, this is too much, I draw the line here!”. Damn physics for making this simple-sounding idea into something disgustingly complex and expensive!