Adalight-FastLED VS CorsairLightingProtocol

Software and Hardware used: I am using Adalight Fastled (https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED) with a WS2812B strip.

Run Adalight with Prismatik.

The sketch I used for the DIY Ambilight can be found here: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED/blob/master/Arduino/LEDstream_FastLED/LEDstream_FastLED.ino

Use this code instead. Define the LED type, data, and clock pins at the top.

Of course, here it is: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED

I have uploaded a sketch Adalight-FastLED to an Arduino Mega. The following description is the requirement for my c# app that is using a slightly modified Ardity to send byte[] instead of strings to the Arduino.

another warning: the off the shelf kits come with a relatively low baked-in baudrate (115200, but confirm with your seller), this might limit your LED framerate, read this, so don't set your software to 360-noscope-fps capture right away... so either you are fine with what you'll get and you leave it at that or you want a higher rate, in which case you'll need to flash it with any other arduino ambilight sketch (such as this) with values that work for your board (any arduino ambilight tutorial on the subject will do)

I used this: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED If you need any further help, dm me. I'm electrician, so I didn't need to learn how the electronics work.

Though instead of paying for Corsair's stuff, it's possible to spoof it with an Arduino.

Or it's even possible to make your Arduino work as a Corsair Commander Pro using this (but you need to get one with a compatible chipset, like Pro Micro)

you can use this if you know a bit about electronics https://github.com/Legion2/CorsairLightingProtocol

The library is compatible with all boards using the MCU ATmega32U4. This includes Arduino Leonardo, SparkFun Pro Micro, Arduino Micro, and Adafruit 32u4 AVR Boards. It also supports the Arduino Uno and Arduino Mega, but this requires the HoodLoader2 bootloader, see this wiki for more details.

It's also worth noting you can make DIY Corsair controllers (can appear either as Corsair Node Pro or LS100 in both ICUE and SRGB) and they're pretty cheap with a microcontroller. I've done this successfully. Information on doing this can be seen here: https://github.com/Legion2/CorsairLightingProtocol https://github.com/Legion2/CorsairLightingProtocolBoards

RGB is controlled by an Arduino Beetle with CorsairLightingProtocol through openRGB. Which allows me to do funny RGB puke: https://youtu.be/ecw56ruBseo https://youtu.be/4Te-m9P7mEs

It seems like you got your questions answered but since I'm here and just as an FYI in case you might expand in the future. You can build a virtual lighting node pro out of an arduino board. IDK much about the details other than that people have already done most of the work for it. https://github.com/Legion2/CorsairLightingProtocol But I imagine it'll be the cheapest or easiest rout since you can get arduino for only a few bucks. I wish I had more knowledge about arduino. I'm thinking of making a DIY nanoleaf equivalent and if I run it off ICUE I'm stuck with its too small of a LED limit. Those ceiling strips are ICUE's max of 138 LED and stretching out 5v that long gives me power drop issues. I can only get away without having to add power injection because the static blue is set to only 16% opacity in ICUE so the full power blue wave can be seen well traveling over it.