jameshagerman / rpi-tcl-server-p9813

Playing around with the raspberry pi's spi port and node.js

Raspberry Pi SPI based RGB LED network server

This app was written by James Hagerman.

This project is a socket server that takes space delimitated strings of 24 bit hex colors and dumps those colors out over the raspberry pi's SPI bus to the Total Control Lighting addressable LED chains.

Also included is a Processing app that will connect to the raspberry pi and cycle through HSB colors as quickly as it can based on the Hue cycling from 0-360 degrees.

This project depends on the wiringPi libraries by Gordon Drogon. Thanks Gordon!

Some of the code was also ripped from the Total Control Lighting Arduino TCL library. Since TCL doesn't tell it's customers what chipset is being used in their products, this was the only sure way to get the code working correctly.

Build

Build on the Pi itself:

make

Transfer all files to the Pi using SCP THEN build on the pi via SSH:

make -f Makefile.scp