--[[ Script to control LED strips based on the roll of the aircraft. This is an example to demonstrate the LED interface for WS2812 LEDs --]] -- luacheck: only 0 --[[ for this demo we will use a single strip with 30 LEDs --]] local num_leds = 30 --[[ use SERVOn_FUNCTION 94 for LED. We can control up to 16 separate strips of LEDs by putting them on different channels --]] local chan = SRV_Channels:find_channel(94) if not chan then gcs:send_text(6, "LEDs: channel not set") return end -- find_channel returns 0 to 15, convert to 1 to 16 chan = chan + 1 gcs:send_text(6, "LEDs: chan=" .. tostring(chan)) -- initialisation code --serialLED:set_num_neopixel(chan, num_leds) serialLED:set_num_profiled(chan, num_leds) -- constrain a value between limits function constrain(v, vmin, vmax) if v < vmin then v = vmin end if v > vmax then v = vmax end return v end --[[ Table of colors on a rainbow, red first --]] local rainbow = { { 255, 0, 0 }, { 255, 127, 0 }, { 255, 255, 0 }, { 0, 255, 0 }, { 0, 0, 255 }, { 75, 0, 130 }, { 143, 0, 255 }, } --[[ Function to set a LED to a color on a classic rainbow spectrum, with v=0 giving red --]] function set_Rainbow(chan, led, v) local num_rows = #rainbow local row = math.floor(constrain(v * (num_rows-1)+1, 1, num_rows-1)) local v0 = (row-1) / (num_rows-1) local v1 = row / (num_rows-1) local p = (v - v0) / (v1 - v0) r = math.floor(rainbow[row][1] + p * (rainbow[row+1][1] - rainbow[row][1])) g = math.floor(rainbow[row][2] + p * (rainbow[row+1][2] - rainbow[row][2])) b = math.floor(rainbow[row][3] + p * (rainbow[row+1][3] - rainbow[row][3])) serialLED:set_RGB(chan, led, r, g, b) end --[[ We will set the colour of the LEDs based on roll of the aircraft --]] function update_LEDs() local roll = constrain(ahrs:get_roll(), math.rad(-60), math.rad(60)) for led = 0, num_leds-1 do local v = constrain(0.5 + 0.5 * math.sin(roll * (led - num_leds/2) / (num_leds/2)), 0, 1) set_Rainbow(chan, led, v) end serialLED:send(chan) return update_LEDs, 20 -- run at 50Hz end return update_LEDs, 1000