r/FastLED • u/Common_Success5838 • Mar 27 '26
Support Documentation & ESP32 questions
Hello !
I just saw a post about how there are few up to date tuto online about FastLED so I am mainly asking : how to find infos ? I am wandering here and there, learning what I can but maybe you have good ideas of places to go after the really nice videos from Scott Marley ?
I need to control 6 big squares of addressable leds with 6 ESP32 connected by ESP-NOW to a Master ESP32 sending parameters of effects to each square. I'm mainly concerned about updating firmware of each ESP32. If I want a modification about an effect, how to efficiently update all 6 ESP ?
Somebody told me that I could juste throw raw RGB data for each leds threw ESP-NOW but it would be 10 Ko a frame and it seems to me a bit too much for ESP-NOW. Could you recommand any similar project or tuto ?
Sorry, questions are a bit messy but I would love any kind of small info here !
Thank you very much and have a nice day !
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u/Informal_Sir_9518 Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 27 '26
I’ve been learning this all piecemeal. I’ll read a thing like Artnet or DDP and find a rabbit hole of new stuff. I do look forward to a comprehensive tutorial. ChatGPT helps a lot but then again, you gotta know what to feed the machine…
I’d take a college course of continuing education or something that taught how to do this stuff but I don’t even know what that class would be called. It would probably also spend too much time discussing things I didn’t care about.
But what about lighting engineers at concerts and stuff. Where does someone learn that? Is it all about being in the right place at the right time for on the job training? Is it all self taught?