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set patterns in blink(1)
Posted on 2015-01-29
I bought a blink(1) http://blink1.thingm.com/ and am playing with it. Does anyone have one of these? I'm trying to figure out how to set and play patterns. There is NO documentation and I can find no examples by surfing. The "help" gives the syntax as:
--setpattline <pos> Write pattern RGB val at pos (--rgb/hsb to set)
--getpattline <pos> Read pattern RGB value at pos
--savepattern Save color pattern to flash (mk2)
--play <1/0,pos> Start playing color sequence (at pos)
--play <1/0,start,end,cnt> Playing color sequence sub-loop (mk2)
I've tried a bunch of things, but nothing works. No idea what <pos> means, no idea what start, end, cnt, or for that matter 1/0 mean.
Any idea how to make it blink forever without the blink1-tool having to run forever (I was hoping maybe the --play would do that)
Any idea how to use --servertickle? `blink1-tool --servertickle 1` turns on apparently random leds forever, but trying args e.g. 1,0,1 doesn't seem to have any effect. If I could get this to alternate color/off I could do my blinking light thing.
I'm running this on Linux using the command line tool: blink1-tool. If anyone has one of these nifty little devices I'd like some help. Thanks
--setpattline <pos> Write pattern RGB val at pos (--rgb/hsb to set)
--getpattline <pos> Read pattern RGB value at pos
--savepattern Save color pattern to flash (mk2)
--play <1/0,pos> Start playing color sequence (at pos)
--play <1/0,start,end,cnt> Playing color sequence sub-loop (mk2)
I've tried a bunch of things, but nothing works. No idea what <pos> means, no idea what start, end, cnt, or for that matter 1/0 mean.
Any idea how to make it blink forever without the blink1-tool having to run forever (I was hoping maybe the --play would do that)
Any idea how to use --servertickle? `blink1-tool --servertickle 1` turns on apparently random leds forever, but trying args e.g. 1,0,1 doesn't seem to have any effect. If I could get this to alternate color/off I could do my blinking light thing.
I'm running this on Linux using the command line tool: blink1-tool. If anyone has one of these nifty little devices I'd like some help. Thanks
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are you using the mac osx installer? did you download and compile the binaries from https://github.com/todbot/blink1/releases/tag/v1.94 ?
Active 2 days ago
Hmmm, don't recall checking the MAC OS and Apple topics; I intended to check Misc Hardware and Linux.
This is installed on a Linux OS and I did successfully get, and make from source. The device and software work OK, I just can't find any docs on the pattern/play commands and I'm not figuring it out from the `blink1-tool` command help, nor by experimentation.
I've tested --blink -1, and --blink 1024, but 512 seems to be the max value allowed. This give a little over 4 minutes of blinkage. Changing the millisecond fade time still does not let it exceed the 4+ minute time.
This is installed on a Linux OS and I did successfully get, and make from source. The device and software work OK, I just can't find any docs on the pattern/play commands and I'm not figuring it out from the `blink1-tool` command help, nor by experimentation.
I've tested --blink -1, and --blink 1024, but 512 seems to be the max value allowed. This give a little over 4 minutes of blinkage. Changing the millisecond fade time still does not let it exceed the 4+ minute time.
Active 1 day ago
Seems quite proprietary. Is there a man page for blink? Have you tried contacting them? http://blink1.thingm.com/contact/
Active 2 days ago
Did contact them and received the reply below. Will try to pursue information ASAP.
Hi Mark,
We have a list of various help resources here:
http://blink1.thingm.com/help/
There's a sub-reddit as a forum but if you have a specific bug/issue you might
want to open an issue on github (which also often functions as a forum)
To address your specific concerns about blink1-tool: you're right, the docs are
sparse and scattered. blink1-tool can do a lot of stuff (it's what I use
primarily to exercise blink(1)s) and it should be better documented.
I've started collating the docs in one place here:
https://github.com/todbot/blink1/blob/master/docs/blink1-tool-tips.md
and I'll eventually put it up on blink1.thingm.com.
Let me know if you have any questions,
-=tod
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