Change Colour without Blank

[AndreHellmuth]

Is it possible to change the colors without the Blynk app? Unfortunately, Blynk has become very expensive to fully utilize.
Greetings: André

[florianL21]

Currently it is only possible to set the colors of the LEDs statically for certain sections. This is done in the Configuration.h file. For example here: https://github.com/florianL21/LED-ClockShelf/blob/master/lib/LED_clock/Config/Setup/diy-machines/Configuration.h#L101

Changing the colors during runtime without Blynk is not possible. But I have been using the free version of Blynk in the past and the documentation should show you a configuration that you should be able to use with the free version

[Godzookee]

I am wondering if Blynk has changed it's pricing model as currently it is only allowing 5 Datastreams under the free tier. If I am reading your documentation correctly we need 18.

Love the project by the way have been building mine for about 3 years now on and off. Finally I am on the homeward stretch. Hopefully only a few weeks to go. :)

[florianL21]

Yeah that is quite possible sadly.
I do want to pick this project back up and I am convinced that it should be quite easy to add support for setting everything up over MQTT and as a result also Home Assistant as there is an awesome library that makes interfacing with it extremely easy.

So maybe check back in a few months ;)
Or if you are impatient contributions are always welcome

[acircleda]

I just built the clock and realize the free tier of Blynk is very limited. Any chance of supporting this idea, or integrating https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED-App ?

[florianL21]

As far as I can tell the WLED app is quite dependent on controlling an actual WLED device. I am afraid this would require to really spend some effort on making this clock controller "look" like a WLED device which does not make much sense.

Like I said above, I do want to get an Integration with Home assistant working via MQTT using this library: https://github.com/dawidchyrzynski/arduino-home-assistant
But I don't have very much time right now to implement this. So contributions are very welcome :)