Full brightness on LED count change 2D Matrix

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What happened?

When changing LED count for a 2D matrix, the panel goes to full brightness upon saving.

To Reproduce Bug

Simply change LED count. I went from 256 to 255 and panel went to full bright on saving.

Expected Behavior

Was hoping the panel would stay the same brightness as the slider indicated and from previous setting.

Install Method

Binary from WLED.me

What version of WLED?

0.15.0-b3

Which microcontroller/board are you seeing the problem on?

ESP32

Relevant log/trace output

No response

Anything else?

No response

Code of Conduct

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[freakintoddles2]

@blazoncek this is a really annoying issue with 15.x builds, would be nice to have it addressed. It happens for me when changing seemingly anything in the led settings.

[blazoncek]

How many times do you change LED count?
Sorry, but backburner.

[github-actions]

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[DedeHai]

I looked into this bug as it is really annyoing. it changes the brightness every time the settings are saved, not only when ledcount changes, any change to LED settings triggers a full brightness.
here is what I found so far:
the global bri variable is not changed, it stays at the set level.
I hunted down where the bug was introduced but was unable to find which commits were pulled in with the merge-commit in question:
in commit acf6736 it still works, next commit 7c8df97 introduces this bug.

[blazoncek]

Have you checked different NPB versions?

[DedeHai]

not yet. I first need to figure out what happened in 7c8df97 as the commit itself does not introduce any new code, but since its a merge commit it probably pulled a lot of stuff in right?
how can I compare full code?

[blazoncek]

That was just a merge of main branch to make it compatible for the opposite direction merge later on.
That did not bring anything bus related back into 0_15.

[DedeHai]

That did not bring anything bus related back into 0_15.

if you have the time, try this:

• check out the commit acf6736 (which is the last one that works). upload and go to LED settings: change any settings (i usually just change the value of the ABL) and save. Nothing bad happens
• Now check out the next commit in the history 7c8df97 which is the merge commit. Repeat the steps of changing something, save. LEDs (adressable ones) will go full brightness.
  I still need to check if the ABL is also disregarded in this bug. If it is, this definitely must be fixed before 0.15 release.

[blazoncek]

• LEDs (adressable ones) will go full brightness

That's because NPB is reinitialized. Perhaps all it needs is strip.setBrightness(bri);

[DedeHai]

that would be an easy fix. I can test if that does the trick and it may very well work, as the brightness is fixed once I move the slider in the UI.
so in that merge commit: was the NPB updated to a newer version or how is it that all of a sudden this bug appears?