Hello - I’m just starting off with the FastLED library. I have a string of SK6812 LEDs which are RGBW. The library supports the SK6812 which as I understand are also called WS2812B, but all the examples are RGB only, and don’t seem to make use of the White LED.
Is there any support for the WHITE element of RGBW LEDs in this library currently?
Thanks much!
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Currently FastLED does not support RGBW leds. It’s in the works but requires a huge amount of code rewrite so it’s unknown at this time when it might be supported.
Hi Marc - I can understand the level of code changes that would be required for full RGBW support. That said, we aren’t even using the W LED - it just happens to be the strip that was speced into the project. Instead of full RGBW support, can you do a “hacked” support of just loading all zeros into the W field (so the WHITE LED is never sent real data), and transmitting a 32b package as an Rx8 Gx8 Bx8 [0x8]? I “think” this could fall in the phy layer (the data transmitter section), and not require changes to the library otherwise??
Since we are driving a very large array (over 30,000 LEDs, divided into 6 “nodes” with 4 strings per node), having support for multiple simultaneous strings is very appealing.
Thanks much for consideration
D