New open-source LED controller...

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Originally Posted by daplatapus

With my Jarduino setup I've got 7 channels with the moon lights included. Each channel is separately controlled and only one colour comes on at a time. But that's a one time set up and once dialed in never touched again.

That's a bit different than what I have set up. Currently there is morning, midday, evening, and night "points". You set the time that each point starts, the level of each channel, and the ramp time:



How do you feel about that?

Originally Posted by daplatapus

One feature I want to incorporate but don't have yet is a acclimation feature. You get new corals in, hit a button and the fixture dims to say 60% of your regular day to day functions, and over the course of say a week or 2 maybe, it ramps back to the original settings. Perhaps an increase of a few percent per day or something.

I think that's a useful feature worth adding.

Originally Posted by daplatapus

For the techy photo guys they may want a save function for say 10K, 15K or 20K, so that if they're going to take pics but their cameras suck at certain K ratings they just hit a pre-set button that they made when they first set it up, and voila perfect light mix for pic taking.

Totally. You can accomplish this with the Scenes feature.

Originally Posted by The Grizz

With my large DIY build I have 5 channels in use with my Profilux 2ex. I can't do moon cycles with it or any other special lighting features, would really like to do at least the cloud cover thing just cause the affect looks pretty neat. I have my LEDs setup so one row of blues come on first, then 2nd row blues, then 1st row whites followed by 2nd set of whites. Red & greens come on later in the morning followed by the high noon kit of white. I would like to add some true UV as I have an extra driver. The acclimation feature would be pretty unique as well.

The special lighting features will be covered. What do you think about the day-to-day stuff though? Do you think you'd be happy with our current settings?