LEDSpicer, LED animation controller for Linux.
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@ScherzKeks said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
@MeduZaPaT
you are da man! That was indeed the problem. I changed the boards ID back to 1. No clue I had modified this before.
It is working now, thanksI'm glad to hear that now is working, first time someone uses an ID different than 1, was unsure of that functionality, so thanks you for the test 👍🏻
Let me know if you have more questions, I need to create some YT tutorial videos for the animations. is kind of easy to understand but lots of details and options.
specially the masking and color mixing features that is extremely useful if you know what it does 😅
PS remember to remove the enable samples config ure flag, so it does not overwrite your settings, or make backups of your config and profiles, I will share some of my so anyone can use them as reference, I got really cool effects based on games and emulators -
@MeduZaPaT
Thanks I might get back to you later ;)
I'm gonna build a full size cab (Bitcade Kit) and until that arrives in May I'm familiarizing myself with the led stuff. I got my Pi already fully set up and configured.
My major point is to have only the per rom/emulator required buttons lit. Animations are a goodie for now ;) -
@ScherzKeks said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
@MeduZaPaT
Thanks I might get back to you later ;)
I'm gonna build a full size cab (Bitcade Kit) and until that arrives in May I'm familiarizing myself with the led stuff. I got my Pi already fully set up and configured.
My major point is to have only the per rom/emulator required buttons lit. Animations are a goodie for now ;)Cool, I'll like to see that project done , the launcher allows you to react in different ways based on the game, you can trigger a profile by game controllers setup, by emulator name or by game rom name, I normally use the by controller with a fall back to rom name or emulator name.
This program allows not only to light buttons, but to add small animations 😏
I do that for some games and the effect is amazing.
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Version 0.3.5 released
You can install over the other version without problems.
For more info go here https://github.com/meduzapat/LEDSpicer/releases -
@MeduZaPaT Version 1.0.19 of libusb-1.0. If I run sudo apt install libusb1-0 it fetches the same version from jessie. when I use "sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev" it states "is is already the newest Version" when I start "./configure CXXFLAGS='-g0 -03'--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" then there are many many checking lines and at the end I get the error "configure: error: libusb1-0 development library was not found"
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@Gh0strider said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
@MeduZaPaT Version 1.0.19 of libusb-1.0. If I run sudo apt install libusb1-0 it fetches the same version from jessie. when I use "sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev" it states "is is already the newest Version" when I start "./configure CXXFLAGS='-g0 -03'--prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" then there are many many checking lines and at the end I get the error "configure: error: libusb1-0 development library was not found"
I fixed that issue, if you pull the lasted version that error will be solved.
also I found that Jessie have compile issues, it does not support C++11 out of the box if you upgrade to Stretch this issues will be gone. -
Nice!
I have all installed, but i have an error... :(
pi@retropie:~ $ sudo service ledspicerd start Job for ledspicerd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ledspicerd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.Install here: home/pi/LEDSpicer
But this...? Below.../configure CXXFLAGS='-g0 -O3' --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc--------- build settings ----------- C++ Compiler : g++ -g0 -O3 Linker : /usr/bin/ld Includes :-I/usr/include/libusb-1.0 -bash: ---------: command not found Libraries :-lusb-1.0 -ltinyxml2 -lpthread -ldl Libpulse : yes: -D_REENTRANT -lpulse Prefix : /usr Systemd : /lib/systemd/system Devices dir : ${exec_prefix}/lib/ledspicer/devices Actors dir : ${exec_prefix}/lib/ledspicer/actors Data dir : ${datarootdir} Config dir : /etc Develop mode : no Copy samples : no --------- Output Plugins -----------When install LEDSpicer all it's ok! ... but when i put this... sudo service ledspicerd start ... Fail!
Someone can help me? Please! :)
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@mdsavio said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
Someone can help me? Please! :)
Thanks, I msg you!
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@MeduZaPaT ... Aquí escribo el journal...
May 08 23:17:01 retropie systemd[1]: Started Cleanup of Temporary Directories. May 08 23:17:01 retropie CRON[905]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root May 08 23:30:53 retropie sudo[949]: pi : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/pi ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/service ledspicerd start May 08 23:30:53 retropie sudo[949]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by pi(uid=0) May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Configuration file /etc/systemd/system/rgbcommander.service is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Starting LEDSpicer a LEDs controller and animation daemon that will handle LEDs of different devices.... May 08 23:30:53 retropie LEDSpicer[976]: Error: Unable to read the file /etc/ledspicer.conf May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: Failed to start LEDSpicer a LEDs controller and animation daemon that will handle LEDs of different devices.. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Unit entered failed state. May 08 23:30:53 retropie systemd[1]: ledspicerd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 08 23:30:54 retropie sudo[949]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root -
@MeduZaPaT
I'm almost finished with my project and doing now the final polishing on the software configuration.
Do you have by chance a configuration example for the Pulseaudio animation?I'd like to use it as the default profile once ledspicer is loaded, so it can react to the boot video. However it doesn't seem to do anything atm. do i need to ledspicer the audio device?
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@mdsavio
possibly a little late response to your issue.
Make sure your ledspicer.conf is located in /etc/
If not you can do the followingsudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install locate sudo updatedb sudo locate ledspicer.confThis will install locate, a quite easy to handle search for files. with the command locate you can then search for files throughout the filesystem. I recall that I also had an issue in the beginning with the ledspicer.conf not being correctly read, although it was at the correct location. But first try that and post the results.
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New version 0.3.6 is now available, this version includes:
- New Rom detection system based on a data file (using Mame is not a good option on retropie)
- Added a new kind of plugin, Input plugins, three of them:
- Mame Connects to mame and reads the output events to light elements or groups on the layout
- Impulse Lights elements when a button is press
- Actions Allows the creation of interactive input, like when you insert a credit, the start will blink and stuff like that
- Added more debug modes
- Improved speed
- Lot more!
I left some demo videos on the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LEDSpicer-2393969390678210/
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@MeduZaPaT Thanks! I understand that the mame output lights only work with the standard mame but not with any retroarch-based version (mame2003, mame2003-plus, mame2010), do they?
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@janderclander14 said in LEDSpicer, new LED animation controller for Linux.:
@MeduZaPaT Thanks! I understand that the mame output lights only work with the standard mame but not with any retroarch-based version (mame2003, mame2003-plus, mame2010), do they?
I was unable to test them, basically they need to support the OSD output via network, anyway I added another plugin that simulates this feature somehow.
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New Input plugin demo video:
https://www.facebook.com/2393969390678210/videos/870935216617871/
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How do we incorporate the input code?
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@nukeray
I have LEDspicer running. Everthing is setup using ledspicerd -e and -l. Not able to figure out how to LoadProfile command line test. More importantly though I would really like to know how to use the input code for MAME. I am running the latest version of SDLMAME not Retropie so OSD is working fine. Any help would be awesome!!Doug
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@nukeray Excellent, the first part is done, can you msg me throw FB so I can help you easily?
https://www.facebook.com/LEDSpicer-2393969390678210 -
New Release of LEDSpicer is out, 0.3.9
this version includes:- Improves Pulseaudio plugin render.
- New PulseAudio mode "Wave" (check video).
- Adds new actor plugin FileReader, this plugin allows the user to create frames on an XML file, right now only RGBA format, more coming soon.
- Lot of bug fixes.
- Code improvement.
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This is awesome!
How difficult would it be to add support for the howler?
The software was written in C and the source is available on github already.
https://github.com/wolfwaretech/Howler-Arcade-Controller-Firmwarewould love to be able to use the controller I have rather than have to buy a new one.
Keep up the good work.
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