5 The leds-blinkm driver supports the devices of the BlinkM family.
7 They are RGB-LED modules driven by a (AT)tiny microcontroller and
8 communicate through I2C. The default address of these modules is
9 0x09 but this can be changed through a command. By this you could
10 daisy-chain up to 127 BlinkMs on an I2C bus.
12 The device accepts RGB and HSB color values through separate commands.
13 Also you can store blinking sequences as "scripts" in
14 the controller and run them. Also fading is an option.
16 The interface this driver provides is 3-fold:
18 a) LED multicolor class interface for use with triggers
19 #######################################################
21 The registration follows the scheme::
23 blinkm-<i2c-bus-nr>-<i2c-device-nr>:rgb:indicator
25 $ ls -h /sys/class/leds/blinkm-1-9:rgb:indicator
26 brightness device max_brightness multi_index multi_intensity power subsystem trigger uevent
28 Hue is controlled by the multi_intensity file and lightness is controlled by
31 The order in which to write the intensity values can be found in multi_index.
32 Exactly three values between 0 and 255 must be written to multi_intensity to
35 $ echo 255 100 50 > multi_intensity
37 The overall lightness be changed by writing a value between 0 and 255 to the
40 b) LED class interface for use with triggers
41 ############################################
43 The registration follows the scheme::
45 blinkm-<i2c-bus-nr>-<i2c-device-nr>-<color>
47 $ ls -h /sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-*
48 /sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-blue:
49 brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent
51 /sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-green:
52 brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent
54 /sys/class/leds/blinkm-6-9-red:
55 brightness device max_brightness power subsystem trigger uevent
57 (same is /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/leds)
59 We can control the colors separated into red, green and blue and
60 assign triggers on each color.
64 $ cat blinkm-6-9-blue/brightness
67 $ echo 200 > blinkm-6-9-blue/brightness
70 $ modprobe ledtrig-heartbeat
71 $ echo heartbeat > blinkm-6-9-green/trigger
75 b) Sysfs group to control rgb, fade, hsb, scripts ...
76 #####################################################
78 This extended interface is available as folder blinkm
79 in the sysfs folder of the I2C device.
80 E.g. below /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/blinkm
82 $ ls -h /sys/bus/i2c/devices/6-0009/blinkm/
85 Currently supported is just setting red, green, blue
94 #Write into test to start test sequence!#
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