So I put together a VB application for communicating commands to the Arduino for

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So I put together a VB application for communicating commands to the Arduino for things like lowering brightness or turning the LEDs on and off, or even selecting a pattern. See my project here: https://github.com/jbud/ArduinoCommunicationApp

I modified the DemoReel example shipped with FastLED so that it would be easier to find what I changed.

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Please Note: This does require FastLED 3.1 because that is what DemoReel uses. 3.1 is available on github as a branch

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That is certainly interesting! I will definetely check this out in next days. Thanks!

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Nice - just installed Visual Studio and added some of my own patterns :slight_smile: - I think I will use it on one of my projects as a start so I don’t have to invent the wheel a second time.
Big TX

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Great! Glad my project could help you out.

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can you guide me how to do it?

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Well, if you compile the application in Visual Studio, then you’ll get an exe file you can launch. Use the Arduino IDE to upload the program (DemoReel100.ino) in the ScriptForArduino folder. Please note that the app does not automatically populate with the available patterns and are hard-coded, however you may edit the code if you please. Consider it a standard open gnu project, you may use my code, but don’t sell it please.

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Be sure to edit the DemoReel100.ino file to have the correct headers for your LEDs, and be sure you have FastLED library in your arduino at least version 3.1

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FastLED documentation is here: https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/Overview

The application is in VB, you can google for documentation on Visual Basic for programming and compiling help. Hopefully I’ve at least helped a little.

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Thanks a lot …its working