ArtNET send ability from GPIO Button...

[gNovp]

Following another feature request ( #5008 ), I already use a lot the ArtNET receive function of WLED (which is great for complex lighting scenarios).

I know it's a niche usecase, but some of us have (soft or hard) consoles to drive all our fixtures (WLED devices etc). These consoles (like QLC+ etc) have the ability to trigger scenes from ArtNET commands they get as Inputs.

WLED has the ability to interact basically via the GPIO touch buttons which is really useful. Following my previous feature request, it would be really awesome if WLED had a way to be setup to send data to a set ArtNET universe (I know it can already be used to drive DMX from WLED). The idea would be to be able to map certain GPIO buttons to send a given value via ArtNET, allowing the console on the other end to see that value change and start a scene accordingly.

I've already implemented something similar in the past (in Node.JS, running on raspberry pi zeros), but as you know, raspberry pis running from SD cards are slow to boot, and unreliable in the long term due to data corruption on the card.
Thus, having this feature implemented in WLED, on ESP chips would make it fast to boot, reliable in the long term, and easier to customize (thanks to the webui).

Again, I know it's kind of a niche usecase, but I believe it would definitely allow new great scenarios.

[netmindz]

This definitely won't be a feature of WLED, however I think what you are asking for can be achieved with current functionality.

There is ArtNet output, so if you map the buttons to trigger a preset that includes the values you want to send via ArtNet, that should do what you need, you will just need to do something like single pixel segments then set the right solid colour, which is really just setting 3 dmx channels to the values taken from the RGB value

[gNovp]

This definitely won't be a feature of WLED, however I think what you are asking for can be achieved with current functionality.

There is ArtNet output, so if you map the buttons to trigger a preset that includes the values you want to send via ArtNet, that should do what you need, you will just need to do something like single pixel segments then set the right solid colour, which is really just setting 3 dmx channels to the values taken from the RGB value

Ok, thanks for that workaround: I'm going to try it as soon as possible.