Allow multiple LED types on a single GPIO

[A6uh]

I came across LED Effect for Klipper. They allow you to specify different led types in series on the same gpio.

An example configuration showing this is here on line 65. That example controls 8 RGB WS2812 leds followed by 2 RGBW SK6812 leds wired in series.

I would love to be able to do this in WLED as it used to be my preferred way to control my 3D printer's LEDS. However, I had to switch to LED Effects because of this limitation.

[blazoncek]

You should talk to NeoPixelBus creator as WLED uses it to drive LEDs.

However, what the configuration you pointed out shows is that it will internally only deal with different color orders. WS2812 and SK6812 do in fact share very similar timings and may be protocol compatible and that is why this works. Attaching other types would be unsuccessful.

WLED's internal structure does not allow mixing types with different color channels on the same GPIO. Implementing that would require changes in NeoPixelBus library and WLED's internal structures which is nearly impossible.