I have very little knowledge about arduino and electronics generally. I have 5v addressable rgb fans and they are controlled by its own box.
You can connect the box to motherboard if motherboard has 5v argb port and press the mb sync button to control lights but my motherboard doesn't have that.
So i tought if i can plug ardunio to my computer and box's sync cable to ardunio and program it. Vdg cable is for gigabyte motherboards and only D(data) cable is conected. Control box is plugged to pc power supply unit via molex cable do i need to ground ardunio too ?
System will look like this is this doable ?
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The Arduino can easily be used to replicate IR remote controller signals, using the IRRemote library, and could also replicate signals on a 5V control cable.
The latter requires careful study of the device documentation and advanced programming skills.
cengo12:
I have very little knowledge about arduino and electronics generally. I have 5v addressable rgb fans and they are controlled by its own box.
Did you bother Googling?
https://www.akison.com/2019/03/arduino-argb-computer-case-controller/
ieee488:
Did you bother Googling?
https://www.akison.com/2019/03/arduino-argb-computer-case-controller/
I saw this in the first place but i couldnt understand it.
jremington:
The Arduino can easily be used to replicate IR remote controller signals, using the IRRemote library, and could also replicate signals on a 5V control cable.
The latter requires careful study of the device documentation and advanced programming skills.
I was thinking using fastled library since arduino acts like motherboard i don't need remote. Can i use fastled
What would you use "fastled" for?
To control lights of fans and maybe i can add ws2812b led strips later
Maybe the following video could be useful for you. Its almost an hour long but seems to have a lot of information about ARGB and Arduino.
Arduino ARGB Corsair Lighting Protocol Corsair Lighting Node Pro Corsair iCUE
