Organize effects in UI by supported # colors

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After working with WLED a lot over the weekend with 450 LEDs and 7 segments, we realized color selection is often ignored.

Made me think that it sure would be nice if the effects list UI had 2-tier selection:
1-Color Effects
2-Color Effects
3-Color Effects
Predefined Color Effects

In the predefined, any effect that ignores color selections goes there.
In 1-Color effects, any effect that ignores colors 2 & 3 goes there.
In 2-Color effects, any effect that ignores color 3 goes there.
3-Color effects is the small subset of effects using all 3 colors.

Perhaps it could be checkboxes, Effects filter: # of colors [ ] 1 [ ] 2 [ ] 3 [ ] N/A and if none are checked, the entire list of effects appear.

A greasemonkey (tampermonkey) script could do it in a web browser.

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I agree that it would be nice to show # of colors used in the effects. Right now, it is just a trial-and-error process.
I like both of your ideas.

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I agree totally also. Hopefully that will be something in future updates. I would also like to see a section on where you could build your own simple light effect and save it

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Just so they’re linked, here’s my related suggestion about showing the colours in the UI.

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People are working on this…

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Thats great news. I had the same feelings as OP.