[mazevx]

If you have one of those strips thats right, but i use single LEDs wich called "breadboard friendly"
So I have to wire them, there was a discription about the use of them but i cant find that anymore, think that was in the OP Forums...

[hwh]

The ws2811 leds normally have 6 connections, 3 running down each edge of the board.

Power in and ground connect to the corresponding pins on the "in" side, and the input from the FC goes to the "in" pin.   Power and ground on the other edge go to power in and ground on the next led in the chain.  "Out" on the first led goes to "in" on the second one.  The same pattern continues for the additional leds.

The wiki https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Setup+WS281x+Led shows one of the strip versions.  On the left the pins next to each other are connected together (DO to DIN, +5 to +5, GND to GND) when it's manufactured.  To make a single led module they just cut them apart between DO and DIN.

[fyoory]

Yea I was only able to get leds working in cleanflight on a cc3d evo on my quad multicopter.    If your hard up to get them going on non revos then this is probably the way to go.    I was able to get it to light like 1 led on my evo but it took 5 minutes and just stayed yellow.  Not much use there other than a night light lol.

[zukenj]

I use the ServoOut6 and It light up fine, but then it will blink only one color (Light Blue) I think. It will not show any variant.

I haven't tested with the NEXT compilation. I will tonight and post back.

[hwh]

The ws2811 led support isn't related to the next branch, it's in the last release.

When you followed https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Setup+WS281x+Led and changed the WS2811LED_Out setting to ServoOut6 did you save it?  At the top left of the screen there is a green arrow pointing upward, that sends it to the revo temporarily but doesn't save it so it will stay over a power cycle.  The one that looks like a hard drive with a red arrow pointing up saves it so it will persist over a power cycle.  When I save settings on a board I usually check it by disconnecting the board, reconnecting, and see if the setting I changed is still changed.

The ws2811 support is only for the revo and revo nano boards, it doesn't work on cc3d boards.

[Lazaros]

I thought I recalled that you can leave the WS2811 LED's daisy chained like they come pre-wired, and up to some number...  Just glanced at the source code.  Looks like 10 will work? all the same color.

Indeed...it's 10...I had connected two strips in series (8 each) and at the beginning I though one strip was "damaged" 
put them in parralel and...all lit up...

[zukenj]

The ws2811 led support isn't related to the next branch, it's in the last release.

When you followed https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Setup+WS281x+Led and changed the WS2811LED_Out setting to ServoOut6 did you save it?  At the top left of the screen there is a green arrow pointing upward, that sends it to the revo temporarily but doesn't save it so it will stay over a power cycle.  The one that looks like a hard drive with a red arrow pointing up saves it so it will persist over a power cycle.  When I save settings on a board I usually check it by disconnecting the board, reconnecting, and see if the setting I changed is still changed.

The ws2811 support is only for the revo and revo nano boards, it doesn't work on cc3d boards.

hwh

Thanks for your reply.

You are right, it is always a good idea to double check. but I am sure I save it because, I turned the Quad off and took it outside, turn it back on, and the LEDs showed different colors when the board was booting, then one blinking color.

I will do a small video today, and post the link.

Thanks

[hwh]

... the LEDs showed different colors when the board was booting, then one blinking color...

Blinking changing colors during boot up and then blinking one color would be normal.  The color pattern should change when you arm and when you change flight modes according to the chart in the wiki https://librepilot.atlassian.net/wiki/display/LPDOC/Setup+WS281x+Led#SetupWS281xLed-Ledbehavior

The blinking blue you described sounds like idle.  Try forcing an error like unplugging power to the receiver an see if the pattern changes to receiver error, the orange flash is pretty noticable 

[zukenj]

That is a good test. I'll post results

[zukenj]

Here is a link to the video, LEDs light Yellow when Radio Disconnected and Blue when after boot.

[Dark-Hawk]

I thought I recalled that you can leave the WS2811 LED's daisy chained like they come pre-wired, and up to some number...  Just glanced at the source code.  Looks like 10 will work? all the same color.

Could you point me to the codeline for this? I was looking for that, but somehow i didnt found it. I'm using an adafruit neopixel ring, but since just 10 leds are called, nearly half the ring stays dark.

[hwh]

It's in flight/pios/inc/pios_ws2811.h

#define PIOS_WS2811_NUMLEDS 10

[hwh]

Here is a link to the video, LEDs light Yellow when Radio Disconnected and Blue when after boot.

You're right, in your video it doesn't look like the flight mode is flashing in the led strip. I can't check this right now because I don't have a ws281x connected to a running quad.  Toward the end of this week I'll be up again and I'll check this out.

[zukenj]

Thanks hwh

[Torsten]

hi can i do this without cleanflight
i use librepilot but i don`t will change to cleanflight
can you help me