Controller for elgato light strips
The controller reads a list of timers and executes them at the specified time.
Fun fact: this library has been in continuous operation since December 2023.
- Timers
- Transitions
- Automatic detection of lights entering and leaving the network
While the controller could be any computer with a python environment and the appropriate libraries installed, it was built for a raspberry pi.
The controller looks for transitions in the file light.transition unless otherwise specified.
Each line is a timer of the following format: __,__,time,lights,transition,end
time is 24 hour time in the format HHMM
lights is a list of ip addresses separated by a |
an example of this is 192.168.86.0.1|123.123.13.1.1
if lights is left blank, the controller will run the transition on all lights.
transition and end are sets of colors in the following format: hue|saturation|brightness|duration of color|duration of transition to next color
each color is separated by a ;
Both the duration time and transition time are in MS.
hue, saturation, and brightness are floats, both times are ints.
The first two slots regard features that are still in progress, so they can be left blank because their values have no impact on the controller.
In this release, the transition file can only be modified manually; however, there is no need to restart the controller when modifying the transition file because the controller will automatically reload the file.
Examples of what these .transition files look like can be found in demo.transition and light.transition
To run the controller, use the command python3 controller.py in the project directory.
To make use of multicast, this project requires zeroconf
The library can still work by manually assigning static IP addresses, but at the moment the controller assumes the user has zeroconf installed and will be unusable without it.