iPixelLED — Bluetooth LED Display for Homey
Short description
Control your iPixel LED matrix directly from Homey — send messages, notifications, and simple apps over Bluetooth. Fast, reliable, and built for low-power LED controllers.
Overview
iPixelLED turns a supported Bluetooth LED matrix into a Homey-controlled display. Use Homey flows or action cards to send transient notifications, save short text “apps” to display slots, force-clear screens, or display a persistent (sticky) message that hides the clock until you clear it manually. The app focuses on a robust BLE-only workflow: on/off, dimming and deterministic text rendering with reliable retry/queueing for flaky connections.
Key features
- Send notifications and advanced messages (color, animation, speed, font & offsets).
- Sticky notifications: clear current apps, optionally hide the clock, and keep a persistent message until manually cleared.
- Save text apps to numbered display slots and restore them from the device store.
- Automatic retrying: failed writes are enqueued and retried automatically so updates don’t get lost.
- Clock display: the app can render HH:MM every minute into a dedicated slot.
- Brightness persistence: dim level stored and restored on startup.
- BLE-first: connects directly over Bluetooth with a cached-preferred-advertisement strategy to reduce rediscovery time.
- Localized flow cards (multi-language support) for easy integration in Homey flows.
Privacy & security
All operations run locally between Homey and the device. No user text or device packets are transmitted to third-party servers by the app. The app stores small device settings (saved app text and brightness) locally on the Homey device.
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