Hello everyone! I am new to the FastLED world.

Scott_Peterson · August 31, 2017, 12:17am

Hello everyone! I am new to the FastLED world. I am trying to install the ESP8266-FastLED-WebServer onto my D1 Mini. I have all of the libraries required even IRremoteESP8266.h. I have already uploaded the data files into SPIFFS, but when I try an upload the main file I get the following error:

‘IRrecv’ does not name a type. I looked up this error and it is usually caused by the library not being installed. I reinstalled it though the IDE and tried it again. I also downloaded an older version to see if there was a compatibility issue, but that did not resolve the issue. Even installing the IRremote library did not solve my problem.

The error is happening on line 34 :

IRrecv irReceiver(RECV_PIN);

I do not have an IR receiver installed yet and have not changed the RECV_PIN value from 12. I tried changing it earlier to D5 or another pin on the D1, but I got the same error.

Not sure what I am missing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

marmil · August 31, 2017, 1:06am

Line 34 of what code? Please put your code on http://gist.github.com and share the link.

Scott_Peterson · August 31, 2017, 1:28am

Sorry. I thought I explained that in my first post.

github.com

jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver/blob/main/esp8266-fastled-webserver.ino

/*
   ESP8266 FastLED WebServer: https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver
   Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Jason Coon

   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/

//#define FASTLED_ALLOW_INTERRUPTS 1
//#define INTERRUPT_THRESHOLD 1

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It’s Jason’s webserver code. I have only changed the SSID and password and Installed the required libraries.

Marc_MERLIN · August 31, 2017, 2:59pm

Infrared and FastLED will not work well together on ESP8266, I know, I tried (the infrared interrupts are a bit too long and cause the FastLED bit banging to glitch)
You’ll want the I2S neopixel library, see this for an example: https://github.com/marcmerlin/Neopixel-IR
define ESP8266I2S to use
https://github.com/JoDaNl/esp8266_ws2812_i2s/

Scott_Peterson · August 31, 2017, 5:44pm

Thanks Marc. I will definitely add that once I can get this to compile one without giving me errors.

Scott_Peterson · August 31, 2017, 6:11pm

Jason Coon helped me figure it out. The latest version of IRremoteESP8266 that the IDE installs is not compatible with the current version of the webserver code. Switching to an older version resolved the issue.

Marc_MERLIN · August 31, 2017, 6:12pm

oh good. Please let me know if you get both working without glitches. For me the infrared code caused display glitches with fastled for me as explained above.