RPi + Other Software Usbasp device

if anyone's interested, I got a usbasp working today with Hyperion and https://github.com/poljvd/hyperion-usbasp

It's a $2 USB device designed to program avr microcontrollers but can be reflashed to drive ws2801 or ws281x led strips < 256 LEDs long.

If you don't already have an avr programmer you need to buy 2 of them so you can reflash one.

Let me know if you want more details or the pre compiled hex code for it

 

I'm maintaining this at
https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion-usbasp

It actually has some documentation now

 

Hey penfold. thank you for your work. Thats exactly what i am searching for.
Unfortunately i have the APA102 LED Stripe.
Are you able to add support for it?

Greetings Julian

 

It might already have support ? If not, it won’t be far off.

I notice there’s ws2801 support which is also SPI ?

 

Thanks for your answer.
Ok then i will buy it and try it out

 

I don’t have any SPI addressable led strips so can’t test anything but can point you in the right direction here

 

that would be great, thank you.
I ordered the usbadp already and it should arrive thursday. I'll write my experience

 

While this is a neat thing to do when you have some USBASP laying about, why wouldn't you just get a 2$ Arduino Nano with more CPU power and full FastLED support if you are ordering "fresh"?

 

Hmm good point, i am new with this.
Searching for Arduino nano i only get Artikles with ~20$.

I want a compact controller to plug in my Windows computer.
From there i want to play Movies via HDMI on my TV and controll die LED´s directly.
The USBASP was for me the cheapest solution i found.

Can you link me a better alternative?

 

Wow great my swabian hearth is lucky
Ok than i will use this instead.

But because i already ordered the USBASP i will give feedback if APA102 is working.

Thank you very much.

 

Thing is, you need 2 USBASP or an USBASP and an Arduino to flash the USBASP in the first place.
On aliexpress, you can get the nano for 2$, and it can be programmed with USB directly.

 

Oh i didn´t know that.
I just experimented with the raspberry pi as controller when i saw your USBASP alternative.
Ok i will try to cancel my Order and use the nano instead

So in my opinion there is no advantage using your USBASP!? (Except you already own one)

 

The form factor is cute - but no, there’s no electronic advantage to the usbasp

 

Hello,

i am using Hyperion 2.0.0 alpha 8 on an Intel NUC7PJYH with Kubuntu 20.04 running on it.
If i choose the hyperion-usbasp as the LED-controller in the LED-Hardware section under LED-Control, hyperiond stops working.
This happens with and without the hyperion-usbasp hardware connectet. If i leave the usbasp connectet i am not able to start hyperiond again. If i disconnect it i can start hyperion again. But as soon as i try to turn on the LED-Hardware with usbasp configured as controller, hyperiond stops again.

Anybody have the same problem?

 

Here you can see the output after i tried to start hyperiond in the commandline with the command "hyperiond -d" and the USBasp device connected:

Code:

2020-11-03T00:05:33.025 hyperiond MAIN         : <INFO> Set user data path to '/home/florian/.hyperion'
2020-11-03T00:05:33.037 hyperiond DAEMON       : <DEBUG> PythonInit.cpp:44:PythonInit() | Initializing Python interpreter
2020-11-03T00:05:33.062 hyperiond SETTINGSMGR  : <DEBUG> SettingsManager.cpp:107:SettingsManager() | Settings database initialized
2020-11-03T00:05:33.062 hyperiond DAEMON       : <INFO> CEC handler created
2020-11-03T00:05:33.065 hyperiond EFFECTFILES  : <INFO> 39 effects loaded from directory :/effects/
2020-11-03T00:05:33.066 hyperiond EFFECTFILES  : <INFO> 22 effect schemas loaded from directory :/effects/schema/
2020-11-03T00:05:33.066 hyperiond EFFECTFILES  : <INFO> 0 effects loaded from directory /home/florian/.hyperion/custom-effects
2020-11-03T00:05:33.076 hyperiond SETTINGSMGR  : <DEBUG> SettingsManager.cpp:107:SettingsManager() | Settings database initialized
2020-11-03T00:05:33.076 hyperiond BLACKBORDER  : <DEBUG> BlackBorderProcessor.cpp:64:handleSettingsUpdate() | Set mode to: default
2020-11-03T00:05:33.076 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Blackborder detector: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.087 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <INFO> Start LedDevice 'udpraw'.
2020-11-03T00:05:33.087 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Smoothing: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.087 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:147:init() | deviceConfig: [{"colorOrder":"grb","currentLedCount":82,"hardwareLedCount":82,"host":"192.168.178.12","latchTime":0,"port":19446,"type":"udpraw"}]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.087 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:403:setLatchTime() | LatchTime updated to 0ms
2020-11-03T00:05:33.087 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:429:setRewriteTime() | RewriteTime updated to 0ms
2020-11-03T00:05:33.088 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> ProviderUdp.cpp:44:init() | Successfully parsed 192.168.178.12 as an IP-address.
2020-11-03T00:05:33.088 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> ProviderUdp.cpp:74:init() | UDP socket will write to 192.168.178.12:19446
2020-11-03T00:05:33.088 hyperiond FLATBUFCONN  : <INFO> Connecting to Hyperion: 127.0.0.1:19401
2020-11-03T00:05:33.088 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <INFO> Run effect "Rainbow swirl fast" on channel 0
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <DEBUG> EffectEngine.cpp:183:runEffectScript() | Start the effect: name [Rainbow swirl fast], smoothCfg [2]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/EFFECT' with priority 0 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Initial foreground effect 'Rainbow swirl fast' started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <INFO> Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <DEBUG> EffectEngine.cpp:183:runEffectScript() | Start the effect: name [Warm mood blobs], smoothCfg [2]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/EFFECT' with priority 254 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.089 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Inital background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.090 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/GRABBER' with priority 250 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.090 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Framegrabber: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.090 hyperiond BOBLIGHT     : <DEBUG> BoblightServer.cpp:28:BoblightServer() | Instance created
2020-11-03T00:05:33.090 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | LED device: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.092 hyperiond SETTINGSMGR  : <DEBUG> SettingsManager.cpp:107:SettingsManager() | Settings database initialized
2020-11-03T00:05:33.092 hyperiond BLACKBORDER  : <DEBUG> BlackBorderProcessor.cpp:64:handleSettingsUpdate() | Set mode to: default
2020-11-03T00:05:33.092 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Blackborder detector: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond DAEMON       : <INFO> set screen capture device to 'qt'
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond QTGRABBER    : <DEBUG> Grabber.cpp:30:setVideoMode() | Set videomode to 0
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond QTGRABBER    : <ERROR> No displays found to capture from!
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond DAEMON       : <INFO> Qt grabber created
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond V4L2:AUTO    : <DEBUG> Grabber.cpp:30:setVideoMode() | Set videomode to 0
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond V4L2:AUTO    : <INFO> Signal threshold set to: {12, 12, 12}
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond V4L2:AUTO    : <INFO> CEC detection is now disabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.098 hyperiond V4L2:AUTO    : <INFO> Signal detection is now disabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.099 hyperiond V4L2:AUTO    : <INFO> Signal detection area set to: 0.250000,0.250000 x 0.750000,0.750000
2020-11-03T00:05:33.099 hyperiond DAEMON       : <DEBUG> hyperiond.cpp:568:handleSettingsUpdate() | V4L2 grabber created
2020-11-03T00:05:33.099 hyperiond JSONSERVER   : <DEBUG> JsonServer.cpp:27:JsonServer() | Created instance
2020-11-03T00:05:33.100 hyperiond JSONSERVER   : <INFO> Started on port 19444
2020-11-03T00:05:33.100 hyperiond PROTOSERVER  : <INFO> Started on port 19445
2020-11-03T00:05:33.101 hyperiond FLATBUFSERVE : <INFO> Started on port 19400
2020-11-03T00:05:33.101 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Hyperion instance 'First LED Hardware instance' has been started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.101 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:32:initServer() | Initialize Webserver
2020-11-03T00:05:33.102 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:32:initServer() | Initialize Webserver
2020-11-03T00:05:33.104 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Smoothing: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.104 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <INFO> Run effect "Rainbow swirl fast" on channel 0
2020-11-03T00:05:33.104 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <DEBUG> EffectEngine.cpp:183:runEffectScript() | Start the effect: name [Rainbow swirl fast], smoothCfg [2]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.104 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/EFFECT' with priority 0 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.104 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Initial foreground effect 'Rainbow swirl fast' started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <INFO> Run effect "Warm mood blobs" on channel 254
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond EFFECTENGINE : <DEBUG> EffectEngine.cpp:183:runEffectScript() | Start the effect: name [Warm mood blobs], smoothCfg [2]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/EFFECT' with priority 254 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Inital background effect 'Warm mood blobs' started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond HYPERION     : <DEBUG> PriorityMuxer.cpp:159:registerInput() | Register new input 'System/GRABBER' with priority 250 as inactive
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond COMPONENTREG : <DEBUG> ComponentRegister.cpp:36:setNewComponentState() | Framegrabber: enabled
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond Qt           : <DEBUG> GrabberWrapper.cpp:48:start() | Grabber start()
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond BOBLIGHT     : <DEBUG> BoblightServer.cpp:28:BoblightServer() | Instance created
2020-11-03T00:05:33.105 hyperiond HYPERION     : <INFO> Hyperion instance 'usbasp_test' has been started
2020-11-03T00:05:33.106 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <INFO> Start LedDevice 'hyperionusbasp'.
2020-11-03T00:05:33.106 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:147:init() | deviceConfig: [{"colorOrder":"rbg","currentLedCount":26,"hardwareLedCount":1,"latchTime":10,"ledType":"ws2812","rewriteTime":1000,"type":"hyperionusbasp"}]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.106 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:403:setLatchTime() | LatchTime updated to 10ms
2020-11-03T00:05:33.106 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:423:setRewriteTime() | Refresh interval = 1000ms
2020-11-03T00:05:33.106 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDevice.cpp:429:setRewriteTime() | RewriteTime updated to 1000ms
2020-11-03T00:05:33.110 hyperiond LEDDEVICE    : <DEBUG> LedDeviceHyperionUsbasp.cpp:65:init() | USB context initialized
2020-11-03T00:05:33.110 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:90:handleSettingsUpdate() | Apply Webserver settings
2020-11-03T00:05:33.111 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:108:handleSettingsUpdate() | Set document root to: :/webconfig
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int'
2020-11-03T00:05:33.111 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:90:handleSettingsUpdate() | Apply Webserver settings

Hyperion caught signal :SIGABRT
2020-11-03T00:05:33.111 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:108:handleSettingsUpdate() | Set document root to: :/webconfig
2020-11-03T00:05:33.111 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <INFO> Started on port 8090 name 'Hyperion Webserver'
2020-11-03T00:05:33.112 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x153c0) [0x7f9d20dec3c0]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.112 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xcb) [0x7f9d1f44018b]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.112 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x12b) [0x7f9d1f41f859]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x9e951) [0x7f9d1f7f4951]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0xaa47c) [0x7f9d1f80047c]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:174:handleSettingsUpdate() | Setup SSL certificate
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0xaa4e7) [0x7f9d1f8004e7]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0xaa799) [0x7f9d1f800799]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        hyperiond(+0x28b15c) [0x559a6514e15c]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <DEBUG> WebServer.cpp:190:handleSettingsUpdate() | Setup private SSL key
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        hyperiond(LedDeviceHyperionUsbasp::testAndOpen(libusb_device*)+0x6f) [0x559a6514e1cf]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        hyperiond(LedDeviceHyperionUsbasp::init(QJsonObject const&)+0x366) [0x559a6514e806]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond WEBSERVER    : <INFO> Started on port 8092 name 'Hyperion Webserver'
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        hyperiond(LedDevice::start()+0xb1) [0x559a65157e11]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /usr/share/hyperion/bin/../lib/libQt5Core.so.5(QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**)+0x9ae) [0x7f9d1fe86b1e]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /usr/share/hyperion/bin/../lib/libQt5Core.so.5(+0xaed2f) [0x7f9d1fc8bd2f]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.113 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x9609) [0x7f9d20de0609]
2020-11-03T00:05:33.114 hyperiond CORE         : <ERROR>        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x43) [0x7f9d1f51c293]
Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben)

 

Yes of course! I am happy to help with the project!