Low level control of color kinetics parts? e.g. chromasic protocol

KeithE

Has anyone controlled the Color Kinetics LED lights directly without using the Philips controllers? I couldn't find anything here on the forums about it, except some discussion about PWM IP.

The closest thing that I could find to a datasheet for the light control is this:

http://www.colorkinetics.com/support/datasheets/Chromasic1.pdf

A friend has a bunch of strips, and wanted me to take a look for him. I'm sure that the propeller could handle it, but it looks like it may involve some reverse engineering. Not sure if it's worth the effort versus using some other lights with a documented and already supported protocol.

Clock Loop

How about some code? :

Most users are either using this code:
I hope you know C++: https://github.com/Dewb/streetlight/blob/master/src/kinet.cpp


Or they use the python version:
Mabee python: https://github.com/vishnubob/kinet/blob/master/kinet/kinet.py
(https://github.com/vishnubob/kinet)





Perhaps java: https://github.com/IgorZubov/KiNET_API




https://github.com/denniedegroot/com.philips.kinet

https://github.com/vishnubob/kidmx

https://developers.meethue.com/philips-hue-api

https://github.com/vishnubob/kinet

https://github.com/Dewb/streetlight

https://cycling74.com/forums/topic/color-kinetics-network-control/#.WE8ynLkmGk4

http://blog.ecue.com/?p=410

http://www.colorkinetics.com/ls/controllers/quickconfig/

KeithE

Clock Loop - thanks for the references. I believe that those require the use of a Philips controller (e.g. PDS-150e) to turn Kinet (UDP on port 6038) into the lower-level protocol that a Chromasic can understand. Ultimately perhaps he should use something like a PDS-150e, but first he wanted to explore the possibility of driving more directly.

JonnyMac

KeithE wrote: »

Clock Loop - thanks for the references. I believe that those require the use of a Philips controller (e.g. PDS-150e) to turn Kinet (UDP on port 6038) into the lower-level protocol that a Chromasic can understand. Ultimately perhaps he should use something like a PDS-150e, but first he wanted to explore the possibility of driving more directly.

Is there documentation for the low-level protocol? Many of us have written drivers for things like the WS2812, so it seems reasonable that given proper documentation a Propeller object could be written to directly drive those LEDs.

KeithE

JonnyMac wrote: »

Is there documentation for the low-level protocol? Many of us have written drivers for things like the WS2812, so it seems reasonable that given proper documentation a Propeller object could be written to directly drive those LEDs.

This is the primary problem - I can't find any detailed low-level documentation. I thought someone here might have heard something though.