TODO.txt

IDEA: it will be easy to have multiple animation classes
- you could have one for a more chill mode that's not music-reactive

IDEA: we can have preprogrammed coordinates for the moving heads
- Have them flash or change color to the beat, change target position to the beat
- Sometimes can mirror the yaw rotation, but keep the pitch the same

IDEA: mode with only red, orange and white

TODO: bpm estimation, may be a useful quantity

IDEA: we could make a DSL for this and actually specify a little state machine
https://wickstrom.tech/programming/2021/05/03/specifying-state-machines-with-temporal-logic.html
- Maybe something like LTL
- Or something with states and conditions/annotations on edges
- could we build a state machine with different update functions?

TODO: can we make a mini web interface with buttons/links?
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html
https://flaviocopes.com/python-http-server/

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TODO: mode to have the moving heads just very slowly move around?
- can rotate in all directions?
=> lower priority

TODO: trigger strobing when intensity above normal
- keep for 8 or 16 beats?
  - can set strobe on or off once every N beats

IDEA: have a few LFOS to vary brightness

TODO: left and right motion animations
TODO: flash of white light (left shoulder?)

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[DONE] TODO: implement UDP BeatServer
echo "Hello UDP" | nc -u 192.168.1.211 7777
nc -ul -p 192.168.1.211 7777

[DONE] TODO: strobe mode

[DONE] TODO: move random color code into dmx.py or utils.py

[DONE] TODO: test RGB36 fixtures

[DONE] TODO: implement RGB36 fixture

[DONE] TODO: try again connecting to raspberry pi with vscode
- local editing is more tedious

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[DONE] TODO: need to have a 4-beat pattern we repeat 4x for the fixtures
- can write a method to generate this pattern

[DONE] TODO: try to get the LED strip working

[DONE] TODO: try flashing with just fixtures, moving heads, or both

[DONE] TODO: try animating all devices at once

[DONE] TODO: warn when adding a device if partial/incomplete overlap in channel numbers

[DONE] TODO: implement fix.rgbw field, use numpy array
- can then dispense with dimming for now?

[DONE] TODO: random_rgb and random_rgbw
- return numpy arrays

[DONE] TODO: make dmx set support iterables
hasattr(name, '__len__'):

[DONE] TODO: give fixtures names

[DONE] TODO: loudness estimation
norm = np.linalg.norm(indata)*10
- we also need to keep some kind of max, or simply a slower running average
- loudness_fast_avg, loudness_slow_avg
- use numpy.std(v)

[DONE] TODO: create a shortcut method for setting dmx val
dmx[self.chan_no + 0] = map_float_to(self.pan, 0, 255)
- dmx.set_float(start_chan, chan_no, val, min=0, max=255)

[DONE] TODO: create a class for the Docooler RGBW moving head

[DONE] TODO: convert colors to FP values in [0, 1]

[DONE] TODO: function to map [0, 1] value into range, map_to()
- have fixtures use FP values for everything

[DONE] TODO: max DMX update rate is 40Hz
- add in comment, aim for 35Hz
- measure time between updates, should be 25ms

[DONE] TODO: DMXUniverse.start_dmx_thread()

[DONE] TODO: DMXUniverse.add_fixture()