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Seems like that brightness graphic is corrupted. Likely a sector or the SD went bad. I’d format FAT32 and copy over the contents of the good SD.
Hey Rolf….. I can’t reproduce this. Can you try swapping the SD cards on your Game Frames to see if that’s the root of the cause?
You might have to be more clear about the steps you’re taking. I just tried it and I can create new applets that use the Particle “Call a Function” action. It also lists my devices in the dropdown.
It’s still in development, but it will activate the new Effects mode. You can see a preview by texting “plasma” if you’ve setup the IFTTT SMS applet. Or type that into the command function in the Particle app.
If I go here and click Download I get a 94k file. Do you?
https://github.com/Jerware/GameFrameV2_WiFi/blob/master/compiled/gameFrameWifi_20161201.bin
I just emailed you the same file that’s on GitHub, zipped up. 🙂 I just wanted to be sure you were getting the file correctly… maybe a problem with how you were downloading? Anyway, glad it worked!
Then your update is not working. Hm… there was a recent Particle system update to 0.6.0 and I wonder if they aren’t updating your Photon for some reason (I’ll bet yours says System version: 0.5.x right?). I’ll try to figure out what’s up.
This feature is officially disabled by default in the latest firmware (20161201) due to numerous reports of LEDs not adhering to the dimming commands. I even discovered a panel at home with this problem. The feature appears to be half-baked by the LED manufacturer, and is unsupported by the LED library I use.
That said, if you want to try this totally unsupported feature, you can add the following line to your WIFI.INI file on your microSD card inside 00system/wifi. Just make sure it appears somewhere beneath [network].
apabright = trueFirmware released.
https://github.com/Jerware/GameFrameV2_WiFi/tree/master/compiled
Please try the latest firmware:
https://github.com/Jerware/GameFrameV2_WiFi/tree/master/compiledThe 20161201 firmware reverts the brightness code to use software rather than hardware dimming (a feature that is clearly half-baked by the LED manufacturer, and is unsupported by the LED library I use). This should solve the glitches in those three pixels.
You can also preview the Effects mode. Open up the Particle app, select your Photon, go to the Data tab, tap “Command,” fill in the argument field with “plasma” and then hit send. Or just text the word plasma to your Game Frame if you’ve setup the Command IFTTT feature.
