HyperionWiFi LED controller - interested ?

Excellent !

The 2 uart options and the DMA option ignore the neopin cos they are dependent on the onboard peripherals.

NeoEsp8266BitBang800KbpsMethod Is the only method that will let you use an arbitrary gpio.

Allegedly this method can cause ESP reboots but in previous versions of the library they seem rare.

Sorry if this was part of the cause of your issues. I have already made this clearer in my code since my last commit.

My plan is to make this web configurable along with host name and port numbers

Weird - what are the flash sizes (or flash chips if you can read them) ?

And yes - basic web control of colour is on the list

Yep - I'll update the repo later today.

There some experimental stuff in there too - view current LEDs in an html table.

I need to return this as a bitmap tho - the html is a bit bloated

The latest is up there a I can't remember what is new vs cleanup.

The bitmap stuff that there doesn't work.

Oh and it setup for DMA mode with the strip on the RXD pin (but you can still change the mode to uart or bit bang)

With some changes, yes.
Neopixelbus now provides apa102 support so it should be easy to add

https://github.com/Makuna/NeoPixelBus/pull/129

Espixelstick is where my efforts will be consist closer to what I want.
Downside is, SPI led devices won't be added soon cos the whole led backend would need replacing with neopixelbus

Nope - are you willing to test it ?

What sort of esp8266 do you have ?

The tiny ones like ESP-01 don't break out the spi pins so we have to use bitbashed SPI rather than hardware SPI

How would an SD card be used ?

It's primary use right now is to listen to wifi packets (possibly sent by Hyperion) to set the LEDs

It should work with ws2813 as the protocol is the same as ws2811/ws2812