RGB LED Nodejs

[Joseph Sammarco]

Hello,

I have nodejs running great but looking to control ws2812b RGB LEDs (Neopixels).
Here is a library with node for the RPi. How could I do this with the Omega?
https://github.com/ajfisher/node-pixel

Thanks

[Boken Lin]

Hi @Joseph-Sammarco, we're working on our version of it. There are some differences between the Raspberry Pi version and our version. Should be out really soon. Stay tuned!

[Joseph Sammarco]

@Boken-Lin That would be awesome. Would be great not to have to use an Arduino to do that and relay messages over pins or USB. Hey, if I were to want to use USB serial to communicate with an Arduino what would be the easiest way??

Thanks,
Joe

[Craig Soich]

@Boken-Lin I have some strings of these lights as well (both the Vcc-clock-data-gnd and the Manchester-encoded Vcc-data-gnd versions) and my projects usually end up using them in some way or another. I'm very interested in this library, and very interested in not having to port this library myself!

[Boken Lin]

@Joseph-Sammarco If you plug the USB to serial on the Omega, it should be recognized as /dev/ttyUSB0 or under a similar name. Once you've connected the TX and RX from the USB to serial to the RX and TX on the Omega, respectively, you can simply issue the echo command to write to /dev/ttyUSB0.

[Boken Lin]

@Craig-Soich Yup! We are looking forward to it ourselves because we want to decorate our Christmas tree with Neopixels

[V_Baczynski]

Hello,

so you wrote neopixel library?