Any update as to when FastLED will support the RGBW SK6812 chipset?

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Any update as to when FastLED will support the RGBW SK6812 chipset?
I searched on here and the last date anyone mentioned them was back in October. I’m going to pick up a meter from Adafruit to use in a lamp but would like to eventually use FastLED instead of Adafruit’s library.

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Still working on it - (while there’s a trivial way to just support throwing an extra byte of data out - to actually support RGBW involves re-creating all the functionality we have that takes CRGB objects to take CRGBW objects (or - what I’m actually doing - is making it all generic and configurable - but it’s a large set of changes, and will touch nearly every piece of the library) - especially because, in the interest of optimizing memory usage, FastLED’s CRGB objects are only 3 bytes per pixel - and RGBW output requires 4 bytes per pixel. I don’t have an ETA yet for it though - there’ll be an announcement here when I do.

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@Daniel_Garcia Thanks for the response. It’s good to know that it is being worked on.

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I’m using these as well, purchased as RGBW Neopixels with warm white. The Adafruit Neopixel library initialization line says, “NEO_GRBW”.

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Thanks Daniel!
I would love to hear from you about your update!

Thanks for developing this great library!

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Is there any idea of an ETA for RGBW SK6812 support?

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No, work and life haven’t given me much time to work on it over the past few months.

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OK. I look forward to when you are able to. Thanks for the update.

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Any updates on FastLED RGBW support?

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Major development work on the library is on indefinite hold - please see the pinned post in this community.