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Utilities

Charlie Powell edited this page Oct 8, 2020 · 3 revisions

Useful Utilities

Covers useful utilities that are included within the plugin to help you get setup and diagnose issues with your hardware.

Provided for convenience, I make no claim that they are 100% accurate.

LED Strip test

Requires M150 intercept to be enabled

Press the 4 buttons to check that each segment of your LEDs are working. Useful if the colours are showing wrong, some LEDs don't work or anything hardware related. Each button sets that colour to maximum intensity, to isolate the individual colours.

Power Calculation

Calculates the approximate power consumption of the LED strip. Useful to work out if your power supply is up-to-the task.

The nominal value included by default is 40mA, since this is what I have found to be most common. Brighter LEDs take more power, so adjust to what you think is right.

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