Addressable LEDs ?

[KriegerKarl]

Hey, i'm currently planning my new PC, and of course it's 2017, so RGBify all the things !

If i understand it correctly, i can use any WS1812B LEDs, the 3A are easy to avoid by soldering a custom +5v/ground cable for my modular PSU, but i read somewhere that Aura currently only supports 60 LEDs... is that true ? And if thats the case, is someone here already working on that problem ?
And the other thing is, with a PSU cable it's easy to power a few meters of strip, but thats pretty useless if i can only apply a single effect on the whole strip.
Wouldn't it be cool to split up the strip in different zones with different effects ?
Is there a way to implement something like that trough the SDK ?

[PsY4Meuh]

Hey AMKriegerKarl,

AkaNe@Asus will confirm this, but actually, the AURA software allows only 60 LEDs, and the SDK don't allow access to addressable strip at all.

Here are the tests i made with a 1m 144 leds addressable strip in the AURA Software :
- We can't enter more than 60 leds in the 'settings' tab
- 'Static', 'Breathing' and 'Color cycle' effects lights up 120 leds
- All other effects lights up only 60 leds

[KriegerKarl]

Hey AMKriegerKarl,

AkaNe@Asus will confirm this, but actually, the AURA software allows only 60 LEDs, and the SDK don't allow access to addressable strip at all.
- All other effects lights up only 60 leds

Oh... hm. Well, that's a bummer. Is it just not implemented yet, or will addressable LEDs always be a thing that users can't modify ?

[AkaNe0]

Hey AMKriegerKarl,

AkaNe@Asus will confirm this, but actually, the AURA software allows only 60 LEDs, and the SDK don't allow access to addressable strip at all.

Here are the tests i made with a 1m 144 leds addressable strip in the AURA Software :
- We can't enter more than 60 leds in the 'settings' tab
- 'Static', 'Breathing' and 'Color cycle' effects lights up 120 leds
- All other effects lights up only 60 leds

From now in the AURA software, only up to 60 LEDs can be controlled. I already added a request to see if we can get this limitation removed.

I understand more and more people are using longer cable strips with more addressable LED.

[KriegerKarl]

From now in the AURA software, only up to 60 LEDs can be controlled. I already added a request to see if we can get this limitation removed.

I understand more and more people are using longer cable strips with more addressable LED.

And SDK support + maybe the option to split a strip into differnet zones ?

[namoi]

And SDK support + maybe the option to split a strip into differnet zones ?

You can tweak this via lastprofile.Xml.
Check a tag with led counts and change it. I highly suggest not to go crazy (120 should be fine).
Then stop and restart lightingservice.

I didn't try this myself as i don't have an adressable headers mobo but i read this on nzxt subreddit where a guy could make nzxt aer fan work with Aura and also tweaked the number of leds on its strips.

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[KriegerKarl]

You can tweak this via lastprofile.Xml.
Check a tag with led counts and change it. I highly suggest not to go crazy (120 should be fine).
Then stop and restart lightingservice.

I didn't try this myself as i don't have an adressable headers mobo but i read this on nzxt subreddit where a guy could make nzxt aer fan work with Aura and also tweaked the number of leds on its strips.

Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk

Oh wow, that sounds awesome !
I'll try to find that original post. Thx for the hint.

[KriegerKarl]

fyi, this guy posted an awesome video on youtube on how to use up to 128 LEDs, power them directly from the PSU, and how to connect them in parallel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub-EWTsMPkg