I had an Arduino UNO working on a single strand of lights, (150 WS2811), but the transitions were way too slow. Even without delays inserted into the code, the led transitions were nowhere near the speed I needed them to be.
Then I saw the Teensy 4.0 board that was 600 MHz instead of the Arduino's 16MHz. Anything I read indicated that it was 100% compatible with existing Arduino code. Once I got the board in, plugged it in and tried to run the EXACT code that the Arduino UNO ran, everything went for shit. Instead of faster transitions, less than half the lights did anything, and the ones that DID do something just flashed white. I tried setting the max refresh rate, but then I was no further ahead than I was with the Arduino UNO. Then I tried using the OCTOWS2811 library, but that too was useless since I am only trying to control a single string of lights.
No matter what I do, I can't get FastLED to work properly on the Teensy 4.0. Even the examples that come with the Teensyduino don't work properly. All I need is a fast controller for a single strand of 150 lights that can cycle the whole strand in about 1/10th of a second. FastLED can't do it, and OCTOWS2811 isn't for single strands. So what or where do i go now?
Then I saw the Teensy 4.0 board that was 600 MHz instead of the Arduino's 16MHz. Anything I read indicated that it was 100% compatible with existing Arduino code. Once I got the board in, plugged it in and tried to run the EXACT code that the Arduino UNO ran, everything went for shit. Instead of faster transitions, less than half the lights did anything, and the ones that DID do something just flashed white. I tried setting the max refresh rate, but then I was no further ahead than I was with the Arduino UNO. Then I tried using the OCTOWS2811 library, but that too was useless since I am only trying to control a single string of lights.
No matter what I do, I can't get FastLED to work properly on the Teensy 4.0. Even the examples that come with the Teensyduino don't work properly. All I need is a fast controller for a single strand of 150 lights that can cycle the whole strand in about 1/10th of a second. FastLED can't do it, and OCTOWS2811 isn't for single strands. So what or where do i go now?