Tile arranger

Photons animations require the tiles know where they are in relation to each other to make multiple tile sets appear as one collection of tiles in an animation.

This app provides a web interface that can be used to set this information on the tiles.

To install and use this app, the following commands may be run:

$ pip install lifx-photons-arranger
$ lifx lan:arrange

The documentation on targets can be read to understand if it’s desirable to use a different target than the default lan target.

How it works

When the web UI is opened in the browser, the server will discover the tiles on the network, change them all to a unique pattern, and display each panel as it’s own square on a grid. Each pattern will also have a white line on the bottom of the panel to help determine it’s orientation. When all tabs to the web UI are closed, or the server is shutdown, the panels will return to how they looked before the arranging began.

There are two ways to interact with the panels:

Clicking a panel

This can be used to help work out which panel in the web UI corresponds to which panel in physical space with an animation.

Dragging a panel

This will change the tile’s idea of where that panel is. Once a panel has been dragged, the server will cause the panel to glow and change that information.

If the server is unable to give that information to the tile, the square in the UI will return to where it was was dragged.

Once the tiles are given their correct positions, photons can be used to run animations on them as if they are one set.

Changelog

0.9.2 - 14 September 2024

  • Update photons

0.9.1 - 1 July 2024

  • Update sanic

0.9.0 - 20 April 2024

  • Removed tornado and whirlwind in favour of sanic

0.8.0 - 2 January 2024

  • Photons is now python 3.12+

0.7.1 - 29 December 2023

  • Fixed packaging instructions in pyproject.toml

0.7.0 - 2 December 2023

  • Photons is now python3.11+

0.6.1 - 9 January 2022

  • Upgrade Photons

  • lint and update the Javascript

0.6.0 - 6 November 2021

  • Now python3.7+ and supports python3.10

0.5.14 - 15 August 2021

  • Update JS dependencies

0.5.13 - 28 March 2021

  • Upgrade Photons and implement more graceful shutdown

0.5.12 - 15 March 2021

  • Seems my fix to avoid a release without JS didn’t work properly

0.5.11 - 15 March 2021

  • Updating photons

0.5.10 - 9 February 2021

  • Same as 0.5.9 but with JavaScript included!

0.5.9 - 3 January 2021

  • Adding LICENSE file to the package on pypi

0.5.8 - 12 December 2020

  • update photons

0.5.7 - 5 December 2020

  • Update photons

  • Upgraded all the JavaScript dependencies

0.5.6 - 28 November 2020

  • Fixed some memory leaks in photons

0.5.5 - 22 November 2020

  • Update dependencies for python3.9 compatibility

0.5.4 - 23 August 2020

  • Upgrade photons-core to fix discovery bug

0.5.3 - 12 August 2020

  • Fixed bug where the program can enter a state of using all your CPU

0.5.2 - 9 August 2020

  • 0.5.1 had development assets in it, so I deleted it

0.5.1 - 9 August 2020

  • Using new photons code, including fixing memory leaks

0.5 - 11 July 2020