Fancy Dog Bed w/ FastLeds and Rotary Encoder

Projects General Guidance
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That's better.

It is the experience of many volunteers here that the problem is in the code that is NOT posted. To put it another way, if you already know that the bug is for sure in what you post, then fix it and problem solved.

Forget the encoder for now, you probably can't use it to turn everything on and off without a relay or MOSFET in any case.

Once the unaltered sketch works, look at the encoder examples for how to read the encoder and program functions to perform based on the encoder readout.

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Code is missing in that library. I don't have time to hunt for it, I would use the EncoderButton library if it is needed at all.

I recommend you hunt down the Adafruit NEOPIXEL example, it works and is ready to run. I used it to do our Xmas lights around the window.

BTW, I am 84.

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Thank you, I will go in that direction.

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Here is the code and article from Bill at DBWS LINK and the video as well VIDEO

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If you want to make use of an encoder to control/change something in the code or some other modification to the code, just give me a shout (reply) or post a question with @sonofcy somewhere in the post.

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If the sketch is lighting sixteen WS2812B LEDs, and you want the rotary push-button to act as a power switch, simply on button press, write "black" to every WS2812B to make it look "off."

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Very helpful. I'm going to put that in now. Do you recommend putting a latching button for the power of the Arduino or is it fine for it to be "running" on black when not in use?

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I have left Arduinos and WS2812B running 24 hours a day for years.

That's solved by a standard wall switch.