As Chris Stock (cannot link him here somehow) has recently asked about any updates…here we go 
I am working from time to time on an alternative UI for the FastLed WebServer by @Jason_Coon where only the options are shown which can actually be applied to the current pattern.
Using Bootstrap (@Bootswatch ) and AngularJS.
Here is a little video. Any advices are welcome!
Context specific settings (is what I’d call that). Very cool.
That’s a really nice update!
Here’s some thoughts.
A home screen with more options, such as:
- Type of LED’s (probably not doable)
- Length of strand
- General brightness
- Selectable routines for a demo mode
- Length of time for the demos, i.e. 5 seconds each
On the context pages:
- A ‘back’ or ‘home’ button.
- A few different types of controls.
A few simple examples of usage along with ample documentation.
To package this up so it’s easy to add my own routines.
To put each display routine as a separate .h file.
Oh, and Ben Hencke did some very cool things with his PixelBlaze at http://www.bhencke.com and http://www.electromage.com. With PixelBlaze, you can even update routines on the fly, not that I would expect that here.
@Andrew_Tuline Thanks for your input. Just a few quick notes: I am only working on the WebUI as I haven’t done any real work with fastled/arduino yet. So type of leds and length should be out. Power on/off and brightness will come next.
As I will probably move everything to one page again (as it looks quiet empty), there will be no need for a home/back/forth button.
Selectable routines for demo mode should be absolutely doable, but rotation will stop as soon as you close the page.
Yes I have seen the work of bhencke. It is quiet cool. Guess he is using (or created) some kind of JavaScript interpreter. Would be a great feature fastled. An “animation hub”
This is cool! I just built something similar with MAX MSP. Are you sending data wirelessly or over a serial port to the LEDS?
@John_Sahhar Data is sent wirelessly. All that stuff is handled by the webserver of jasoncoon. I did no coding on the chip itself
Hey M K! Any progress/updates on this?
Well yes, there is some progress.
Unfortunately when I tried to use it on the esp8266, it was unbelievably slow.
Seems like the esp8266 is not intended to run angular apps on it
It does work though with an asynchronous webserver. But this will required the whole project to be changed. I am looking for ways to integrate it