Questions about Segments... How and Why

Questions
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WLED 0.10.2, 812 LEDS (WS2811), 1 nodeMCU

  1. I want to make 3 segments for sides and front of house (to display Halloween Eyes on front only). When I make only segment 2 active, segments 1 and 3 still display solid colors (orange and green)… so how do I turn those off? How are palettes set for inactive segments?
  2. Can I make a sequence of this #2 segment only (to play in rotation with other effects).
  3. How do I get sequences to stick? If I reboot WLED , all settings come back except segments. Only segment 0 is present after reboot.
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Start here… https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/Segments

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I had read that several times before but missed that preset 16 saved the segments. Thanks.

John

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Hi,

Maybe you can configure black color for segment you want off.

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The question is HOW to program the other sections (1 and 3). They are
not active (no checkmark) and thus can’t be selected.

Curious minds want to know…

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Are you saying you can’t select them (get checkmarks)?

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No, I can select any of the three segments. The question is: when I select an effect for the #2 (checked) segment, the other segments light up also but in solid colors. I would think that they should be off because they are unselected. How do I control the unselected segments?

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Selecting allows editing. It’s not to enable them.

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So… all segments are always on… If I want only segment 2 to light up then I program segments 1 and 3 as black. Is that right?

If I set up 3 segments as above and save it to P16… and I want to sequence with 14 and 15, say… 14 = effect A; 15 = effect B; 16 = Segments programmed as above… the sequences stick from 16… I can’t go back to all leds on a single effect unless I reset the segments (which goes to 0 segments). So I don’t think what I want will be practical until segments can be saved in every preset.

This is hard to explain. Foo.

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Segments only do what you tell them. :wink:

Yes, if you just want 2 on, you have to turn off 1 and 3.

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but to be clear, you can’t turn 1 and 3 off… but you can make them display black. Correct?

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Yes. That’s also off. :wink:

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So, expanding on this. Is it possible to save a preset that does not affect what’s going on with segments 1 & 3? Could I have a preset for a set of segments that only affects those segments and leaves the other segments unaffected?

If I need to blackout the other segments, then in order to just have presets for just these 3 segments I would need to have 9 different presets to cover all combinations of just 1 effect. This would massively blow out the presets if I wanted different combinations of effects.

I do realize that this could be fixed by using the JSON API and code to keep track of everything separately to WLED, but I just wanted to check that there is no other way forward before taking that leap into coding.

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You can experiment by editing API in preset.
Technically it is possible, but perhaps not by using GUI.

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Once you know the json required to perform the “ignore” segments task, you can create a preset that run a json blob (as if it were sent from outside wled).

Is that true, or did I misunderstand how that works?

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Not sure if I understand your question…

If some options are missing from (valid) JSON constructed, they retain their old values. WLED doesn’t care where JSON comes from…