Here’s a different take on using FastLED and addressable strips using PC based software called Vixen. Just managed to get it running yesterday, so it’s early stages for me.
http://blog.huntgang.com/2014/11/08/vixen-lights-3-x-arduino-pixel-controller-ws2812b/
Ah interesting! Thanks for sharing this!
There are definitely pros and cons to using this package for us FastLED users.
For instance, it really just wants to send a continuous stream of RGB data to the Arduino.
What I would like to do, however, is to use Vixen to send serial commands to the Arduino, which already has a bunch of ready to run FastLED routines. Vixen isn’t really made for this, so I think it’s going to be kludge time.