L8
A gem for communicating with an L8 SmartLight over USB.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'l8'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install l8
Usage
To connect to your L8 Smartlight, determine the serial port it's on:
require 'l8'
l8 = L8::Smartlight.new('/dev/tty.usbmodem1421')
Changing LEDs
Use set_led to set one of the LEDs to a color. The arguments are:
- x coordinate of the LED (0..7)
- y coordinate of the LED (0..7)
- red color value (0..15)
- green color value (0..15)
- blue color values (0..15)
For example, to set the 5th LED in the 3rd row to orange:
l8.set_led(2, 4 ,15, 7, 0)
Clearing the LEDs
Use the clear_matrix method:
l8.clear_matrix
Changing the Super (Back) LED
Use the set_superled method and pass 3 color values (0..15):
l8.set_superled(0, 0, 15)
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/spilth/l8/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request