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Increased LED limit that the Arduino can support#439

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@Fiveol Fiveol commented Jan 10, 2026

Used a 16-bit integer instead of an 8-bit integer to increase the led limit from 255 to 65535

Used a 16-bit integer instead of an 8-bit integer to increase the led limit from 255 to 65535
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since this breaks existing devices I'm quite oposed to this change.

What is the justification behind this? (Is there a real usecase?) From my tests back when I implemented a basic arduino way way to slow to drive that amount of leds. Aside from that the latency of the led-strip itself would be really bad so it's advisable to split them anyway.

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Fiveol commented Feb 15, 2026

It would make it possible to drive my 50 ft 1000 led strip. My Arduino Uno can handle it, especially with the custom baud rate feature.

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