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| 1 | +The leds-blinkm driver supports the devices of the BlinkM family. |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +They are RGB-LED modules driven by a (AT)tiny microcontroller and |
| 4 | +communicate through I2C. The default address of these modules is |
| 5 | +0x09 but this can be changed through a command. By this you could |
| 6 | +dasy-chain up to 127 BlinkMs on an I2C bus. |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +The device accepts RGB and HSB color values through separate commands. |
| 9 | +Also you can store blinking sequences as "scripts" in |
| 10 | +the controller and run them. Also fading is an option. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +The interface this driver provides is 2-fold: |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +a) LED class interface for use with triggers |
| 15 | +############################################ |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +The registration follows the scheme: |
| 18 | +blinkm-<i2c-bus-nr>-<i2c-device-nr>-<color> |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +$ ls -h /sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-* |
| 21 | +/sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-blue: |
| 22 | +brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +/sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-green: |
| 25 | +brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +/sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-red: |
| 28 | +brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +(same is /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/leds) |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +We can control the colors separated into red, green and blue and |
| 33 | +assign triggers on each color. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +E.g.: |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +$ cat blinkm-6-9-blue/brightness |
| 38 | +05 |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +$ echo 200 > blinkm-6-9-blue/brightness |
| 41 | +$ |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +$ modprobe ledtrig-heartbeat |
| 44 | +$ echo heartbeat > blinkm-6-9-green/trigger |
| 45 | +$ |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +b) Sysfs group to control rgb, fade, hsb, scripts ... |
| 49 | +##################################################### |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +This extended interface is available as folder blinkm |
| 52 | +in the sysfs folder of the I2C device. |
| 53 | +E.g. below /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/blinkm |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +$ ls -h /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/blinkm/ |
| 56 | +blue green red test |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Currently supported is just setting red, green, blue |
| 59 | +and a test sequence. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +E.g.: |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +$ cat * |
| 64 | +00 |
| 65 | +00 |
| 66 | +00 |
| 67 | +#Write into test to start test sequence!# |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +$ echo 1 > test |
| 70 | +$ |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +$ echo 255 > red |
| 73 | +$ |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +as of 6/2012 |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +dl9pf <at> gmx <dot> de |
| 80 | + |
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