Added Pygame renderer and a demo of usage. Also added a renderer for the main lights which is

waiting on a layout.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/util.py b/util.py
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+from numpy import zeros
+argDict = {'flags': 0, 'startcode': 0x0fff, 'pad':0}
+
+# Allocate a buffer for transmitted packets and fill it with magic
+# Only works for strips of 50 pixels
+xmit = zeros(174, dtype='ubyte')
+xmit[:8], xmit[20:24] = [4,1,220,74,1,0,8,1], [150,0,255,15]
+
+def composePixelStripPacket(values, port):
+  xmit[16], xmit[24:] = port, values.ravel()
+  return xmit
+
+import socket
+def getConnectedSocket(ip,port):
+  sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
+  try:
+    sock.connect((ip, port))
+    return sock
+  except Exception as inst:
+    print 'socket failure'