Hello, I got my LED matrix working with SmartMatrix,

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Hello, I got my LED matrix working with SmartMatrix, I managed to connect it with wires, thank you @Jason_Coon
I can run the SmartMatrix examples, but have problems when trying to run the Smartmatrix sketch in FastLED examples, I have removed and updated with the latest version downloaded from GitHub - FastLED/FastLED: The FastLED library for colored LED animation on Arduino. Please direct questions/requests for help to the FastLED Reddit community: http://fastled.io/r We'd like to use github "issues" just for tracking library bugs / enhancements. , but it keeps saying that I have version 3.001.001 “C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\teensy\avr\libraries\FastLED/FastLED.h:17:21: note: #pragma message: FastLED version 3.001.001
SmartMatrix: In function ‘void setup()’:
SmartMatrix:66: error: no matching function for call to ‘CFastLED::addLeds(CRGB [1024], int)’
LEDS.addLeds<SMART_MATRIX>(leds,NUM_LEDS);”

I have even removed it and copied the files in Teensy libraries, but same error, I don’t understand …

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Tried the FastLED example in the SmartMatrix library? I think SMv3 may have broken/changed the integration with FastLED: https://github.com/pixelmatix/SmartMatrix/blob/master/examples/FastLED_Functions/FastLED_Functions.ino

And, again, I think you’ll find more support for this over in the SmartMatrix community: http://community.pixelmatix.com

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@Jason_Coon ​ yes I tried the fastled functions example in smartmatrix, it works fine. I was a bit lost because I didn’t see fastled initialisation in the code, it didn’t seem familiar to me.

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Yeah, until FastLED is updated to work with SMv3, you’ll have to use it from the SM side. Meaning you can still use most of FastLED, but you won’t call FastLED.addLeds, FastLED.show, etc. Instead you call backgroundLayer.swapBuffers(false);

I think SMv3 broke compatibility with FastLED, but added support for multiple configurable layers, larger panels, different layout configs, etc.

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@Jason_Coon ​ very new to me, indeed there is an example with multiple layers, very neat. Maybe I can try to find a previous version of smartmatrix in the meantime. I saw a library called Aurora that seemed nice, does it work with fastled ?

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SMv2 is still available here, should work with FastLED like it used to, but not sure it’ll work with your 64x32 panel: https://github.com/pixelmatix/SmartMatrix/tree/SmartMatrix2

Aurora isn’t a library, it’s an application built with SmartMatrix and FastLED: https://github.com/pixelmatix/aurora

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@Jason_Coon indeed it works with v2.2 but doesn’t support 64*32. I’ll check the fastled example in the smartmatrix library, once again thanks a lot for for your valuable help :wink: I still can’t believe I have 2,000 pixels for 15€ :stuck_out_tongue: