Hello, New here and a bit of a noob at FastLED and Arduino for

Frisbee_Puppy · January 7, 2017, 10:31pm

Hello,
New here and a bit of a noob at FastLED and Arduino for the most part. I am trying follow a really awesome tutorial posted by a BRUHautomation featuring the FastLED lib (i will link below). I have installed the proper libraries and board manager to my Arduino IDE but when I attempt to compile the code I am given the error “‘WS2811’ was not declared in this scope” for line 28 : “#define LED_TYPE WS2811” I have tried tweaking the code but I really don’t know enough to have any successful results. I really want to get this automation set up but this error is standing in the way. Any help would me very appreciated! Thanks!

the code in question:

github.com

bruhautomation/ESP-MQTT-JSON-Digital-LEDs/blob/master/ESP_MQTT_Digital_LEDs/ESP_MQTT_Digital_LEDs.ino#L15


      
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  Thanks much to @corbanmailloux for providing a great framework for implementing flash/fade with HomeAssistant https://github.com/corbanmailloux/esp-mqtt-rgb-led
            
            To use this code you will need the following dependancies: 
            
            - Support for the ESP8266 boards. 
                  - You can add it to the board manager by going to File -> Preference and pasting http://arduino.esp8266.com/stable/package_esp8266com_index.json into the Additional Board Managers URL field.
                  - Next, download the ESP8266 dependancies by going to Tools -> Board -> Board Manager and searching for ESP8266 and installing it.
            
            - You will also need to download the follow libraries by going to Sketch -> Include Libraries -> Manage Libraries
                - FastLED 
                - PubSubClient
                - ArduinoJSON
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#include <ArduinoJson.h>
          #include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
          #include <PubSubClient.h>

Frisbee_Puppy · January 8, 2017, 4:14am

And just to clarify i am using the NodeMCU board.

Jeremy_Spencer · January 8, 2017, 8:25am

I’ve just downloaded the code from GIT and it compiles fine on my system (IDE 1.6.13 with windows 8.1 and FastLED version 3.001.005)

Frisbee_Puppy · January 8, 2017, 10:14pm

Updated to the latest IDE, had some library conflicts and after cleaning those up i got it working. Thanks Jeremy.