brianholley / picotile

DIY nanoleaf replica control software

Picotile

DIY nanoleaf replica control software

Hardware

Currently designed for:

• ESP8266 microcontroller
• WP2812B strand lights
• Light panels

Feature set

Current + Planned features:

• Flexible tile arrangements
• Brightness
• On/off
• Light modes
• Palette switching

Running modes

Automatic - cycles through these patterns:

• Fade - single color fade transitions
• Fire - warm color palette mimicking firelight
• Firefly - darn nighttime with fireflies
• Pulse - single color pulses through the tiles
• Rainbow - chasing rainbow lights
• Starburst - tile color explosion and fade

Single - lock to single pattern above

Manual - toggle individual tiles on/off or color

Instructions

Debugging the web app:

1. cd webapp
2. npm install
3. npm run start

Publishing the web app to the ESP8266

1. cd webapp
2. npm run build
3. In the Arduino IDE: Tools | ESP8266 Sketch Data Upload

Running on the Arduino:

1. Open picotile.ino
2. Upload the data folder into SPIFFS memory
3. Run project

Intial setup (wifi configuration):

1. TBD

Dependencies

Arduino dependencies:

• ESP8266 board
• FastLED
• WiFiManager
• Arduino WebSockets
• ArduinoJson

Packages:

Name	Installed
ArduinoJson	6.21.3
FastLED	3.6.0
WebSockets	2.4.0
WiFiManager	2.0.16-rc.2

Installation (with arduino-cli):

arduino-cli lib install ArduinoJson@6.21.3
arduino-cli lib install FastLED@3.6.0
arduino-cli lib install WebSockets@2.4.0
arduino-cli lib install WiFiManager@2.0.16-rc.2