Only one LED lights up on BlinkStick Square with 8 LEDs

[kepochan]

Description:

First off, thank you for this awesome project in Swift! It’s fantastic to have a Swift implementation.

However, I noticed an issue when using it with the BlinkStick Square. The device has 8 LEDs, but currently, only one LED lights up when running the code. It would be great if the implementation could support all 8 LEDs to take full advantage of the device.

Steps to Reproduce:

Connect the BlinkStick Square with 8 LEDs.
Run the beezyLight code.
Run an app using the microphone.
Expected Behavior:

All 8 LEDs on the BlinkStick Square should light up as per the configured pattern.

Actual Behavior:

Only one LED lights up, while the other 7 remain off.

Additional Information:

BlinkStick Model: BlinkStick Square with 8 LEDs
MacOS 14.6.1

[leonardodino]

Hey @kepochan sorry for the delay. Hope you are doing well.
Thanks for calling this out, I hadn't ever realised it was lighting up a single LED, I can confirm that is also true on my model.
I bought it with the "BlinkStick Square Enclosure" 3d printed thing and haven't ever used it without, since it diffuses light so well that I thought it was lighting all of them 😅

see attached picture:

Going over the the reference implementation I noticed there are 2 types of message:

• one which is compatible with all blinksticks (0x1 which unfortunately only lights one LED and which this app is using)
• a newer one which receives a channel and index to light up (0x5).

I'm not looking to change to something less compatible right now and I haven't figured out a way to get the number of the LEDs present on the attached device. (seems they all share a single USB vendor+product id pair, so would need some other way to differentiate).

I have implemented a hard-coded version for 8 LEDs on the blinkstick-square-8-leds branch. compile it and see if fits your needs 😄

Best of luck!