Show printer Status via RGB Strip
I installed a basic adressable rgb led strip in my rr long ago but just used it only kina as a flashlight via macro (off most of the time)
My thought was showing the printer status like blinking red for error, orange for calibrating/homing, white when printing (and maybe even changing the color with the print percentage). Any hints how to tackle this? I haven't really found a solution other than to add them to the print start macro or something. But isn't the print status something that can be called?
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you probably want to start looking into the moonraker APIs. If you want it independent of the klipper macros you will probably need to write a linux daemon (python would probably be a good choice) to do all the work
Configuring RatOS Macros | RatOS
RatOS comes with a bunch of flexible predefined macro's that can be customized via variables and macro hooks.
wow that sounds like a lot of work
maybe I can use the neopixel gcodes from the voron neopixel implementation
which is why I would suggest you just hook into the user-macro-hooks
oh, that sounds great! now I understand what those can be used for
I saw them in the documentation when installing some days ago but thought "why whould I need those"
sorry I am new to more custom things on the RR