I’ve successfully been able to control WS2811 pixels via SACN(E1.31) using both the Ethernet and wifi shields but was wondering if there is a cheaper wireless communication shield or chip I could use? Maybe an ESP8266?
I bought a couple ESP8266s and I saw that they can control pixels directly but can it be used as a cheap wifi shield and interface with an Arduino?
OK. I was able to get the ESP8266 to read the E1.31 UDP packet and then pass it through the serial port to a Mega2560. It is coming in on Serial1. I can then process the packet and read the data out over the USB serial port. Once I add in the FastLED code to output to the pixels using values from the packet received from the serial port, I only get one packet and then it stops. If I comment out FastLED.show(); it starts working again. Does FastLed require the serial port in someway?