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The RGBLED Sequencer as shown in the pic above is the latest addition to the RGBLED Project....A limited amount of pcbs were manufactured and made available to those that pre ordered them.
The Sequencer was designed in response to requests for a stand alone controller . Some Users did not want to leave a computer running in order to use their RGBLED Boards..... The Sequencer currently stores up to 64 different Sequences .. Sequences can be of any length and are only limited by the size of serial eeprom installed on the board .. A Sequence can be a single RGBLED command or many many commands.... Sequences are written into a single text file (sample shown in pic above) and then can be parsed and loaded by the Sequencer App into the Sequencer via a serial link... The User can then if they wish disconnect the serial link and has two options of control.. The Sequencer uses a Rotary Encoder which depending on which one of five functions is selected performs the necessary task....The five functions are Sequence Selection , Toggle all leds ON / OFF ,Colour Hue Selection ,Colour Saturation selection and Colour Brightness.... So the User can select a Sequence to run by setting the proper function and turning the rotary encoder to the correct sequence and pressing select......... Theres also provision to connect external triggers to 8 different inputs and the User can program the triggering of these inputs to run a selected Sequence ...The triggers can be ALL low to high or ALL high to low triggers.... In my own RGBLED setup I now only require a single scheduled event to trigger my Evening + Morning routines. The scheduled event at 7:00 pm sends out a command using xPLIO to tell the Sequencer to run Sequence #3 ...This is quite a long repeating Sequence....At 11:30 pm a command is sent out via xPLIO to tell the Sequencer to run Sequence #4 (RGBLED ALL OFF). Im also able to trigger the above Sequences using the trigger inputs ....You can also send pass thru commands which goes directly to the RGBLED Boards and this is quite handy as it allows the current Sequence to continue . This was just a quick rundown on the Sequencer so I may have missed some features... All in all I think this is a great little addition to the RGBLED Project and im considering connecting my triggers inputs to Homevision via a HV I/O Expander.... More Soon
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