Fadetoblack gives one extra full light glimp about super-simple-rgb-wifi-lamp

[thebigpotatoe]

Ill have a dig into this, haven't seen it happen but will try to recreate.

[StefaanVanDooren]

It only happens when turning the lamp off. When switching modes, it fades to black and then comes on again with the right mode.
I put a little video online : https://drive.google.com/file/d/11H5b7lDtVfai7jVCG0KzLAqhSe5cue0E/view?usp=sharing

PS: be sure to download the video, when I play it in my browser it's barely visible.

[thebigpotatoe]

Had to watch it a few times but i think i see what you mean (very evident when downloaded though). Might be an issue with wrap around in my code or fast LED. If you haven't, make sure you are up to date with the libraries in the meantime.

Awesome to see someone build it though.

[StefaanVanDooren]

be sure to download the video, when I play it in my browser it's barely visible.

It's a great little project. I would love to see something like a fire mode ....

[StefaanVanDooren]

I just noticed its not just when fading to black, it also happens when the lights are a full brightness. But then it's not that visible, because it switches directly back to full brightness.
New video uploaded, again you have to download it to really see it.... around second 2

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13ciJeC-3PrgpXlDLq5uSqk3twDCW0LJo

[StefaanVanDooren]

New observation.... only happens with certain fade time... It does happen with 500, 1400, 1500, 1800 and 1900 but not with 0, 100, 200, 300, 400, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1500, 1600, 1700, 2000

[thebigpotatoe]

Awesome. Thanks for the updates. It does seem to happen for those numbers, just tested it then. I'll dig into the code as soon as I can and see where there is an error.

[StefaanVanDooren]

I added some debugging to the code, and noticed that modeChangeFadeAmount got below 0 for those certain Fadetimes. Adding a constrain seems to stop the behavior for me.

if (modeChangeFadeAmount > 0) {
EVERY_N_MILLISECONDS(20) {
modeChangeFadeAmount -= (FadeTime > 0) ? (255 / ((float)FadeTime/20)) : 255;
modeChangeFadeAmount = constrain(modeChangeFadeAmount,0,255);
Serial.print("[handleMode] - modeChaneFadeAmount : ");
Serial.println(modeChangeFadeAmount);
};

I added a constrain in all places where you change the modeChangeFadeAmount.

[StefaanVanDooren]

Looking a bit further, I found you have an "else" laying around before your constrain in the code. (LEDS.ino) commenting this one out, also fixes the issue....

else

// Globally Scale the brightness of all LED's
modeChangeFadeAmount = constrain(modeChangeFadeAmount, 0, 255);
nscale8(ledString, NUM_LEDS, (int)modeChangeFadeAmount);

[thebigpotatoe]

Found all of the above. Seemed to be summing one last time using the inbuilt fastLED function EVERY_N_MILLISECONDS for those times you stated.

Ended up just shuffling a few things around and now the integer does not overflow. Test and worked in the latest pull for myself, let me know if you have issues.

[StefaanVanDooren]

Working for me.

[thebigpotatoe]

Perfect, closing issue