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Lightrix: Drive Adafruit Neopixels over Matrix

Installation

You will need a Raspberry Pi that is attached to your network. I am using a Raspberry Pi Model A+ due to its really adorable formfactor and the fact that I have some WiFi dongles laying about.

First off, get the rpi_ws281x library working, and verify that strandtest.py works for you. I followed this Adafruit tutorial to get it working, I would recommend the same; you will need a 3v3->5v logic level converter, which is unfortunate, but it makes this so much easier.

Once you have that working and installed, install the matrix-client from Pip.

sudo pip install matrix-client pyyaml pytz

Yes, I install it in to the main Python library path, because I'm an infoterrorist. It's an embedded Raspberry Pi, deal with it.

Usage

  • Create a ~/.mcatrc
  • Run python ./lightrix.py --room "<YOUR ROOM ID>" -c ~/.mcatrc and it'll fire up
  • Go in to the room and type "rainbow"