I have a newbie question:

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I have a newbie question: Does FastLED 3.1 allow one to read the RGB values in any givien pixel?(APA102 or WS2812)? And maybe report it back in the Serial monitor? (I’m using Mega2560)
I am able to create some nice colors using a PIR sensor converting distance to the HUE colors in an APA102 strip. I would like to know the value of these colors. Any ideas? Thanks

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Just read the value out of the CRGB or CHSV array. No API needed.

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Yeah, expanding on what Peter said, assuming you have this line near the top of your code:

CRGB leds[NUM_LEDS];

You should be able to get the color for any pixel like this:

CRGB led = leds[index];

byte r = led.r;
byte g = led.g;
byte b = led.b;