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Adds an optional "Power on/off sweep" to LED Preferences → Transitions (off by default). With it enabled, turning the lights on sweeps them in from left to right, and turning them off sweeps them out from right to left, instead of the regular fade:
ON: the lit part fades up behind a soft front to ~90% at 2.0 s, then everything rises to full brightness at 2.5 s.
OFF: the whole strip dims while a soft edge moves right to left; black at 2.0 s, then the normal power-off (brightness 0, relay off).
Turning the lights back on or off in the middle of a sweep continues smoothly from what the LEDs are showing; sending the same on/off command again doesn't restart it.
Normal brightness changes still use the regular transition.
How it works
New header wled00/power_animation.h (PowerAnimation): computes one level (0–255) per pixel for each frame. Integer (Q16) math only, so ESP32-C3/S2 without an FPU aren't slowed down. Trail and edge widths are fractions of the strip length; on a matrix the sweep follows the columns.
Applied in the global pixel buffer's output loop in WS2812FX::show() with color_fade(), after gamma, so R, G, B and W are scaled alike (RGBW and RGB+CCT keep their channel ratios).
Reversal: each sweep starts from the levels last sent to the LEDs. ON uses max(previous level, shape) and OFF uses min(previous level, shape), so a pixel never moves backwards. The start time within the new sweep is found by bisection (the shape is monotonic in time), which avoids a pause where the edge would cross pixels that are already at the target.
handleBriChange() starts the sweep for on/off changes when the option is enabled (strip.requestPowerAnimation() only records the target, so it is safe from network callbacks). During OFF the strip brightness is kept until the sweep is dark; handleTransitions() then applies the final brightness 0. Brightness-only changes fall through to the existing code.
Memory: 2 bytes per LED, allocated only while the option is enabled or a sweep is still running; nothing when disabled.
/json/live and the WS peek show the animated levels.
Builds with WLED_DISABLE_GLOBAL_PIXELBUFFER (currently ESP8266) have no per-pixel output loop, so the option is hidden there and power changes keep the regular transition.
New config key: light.tr.pwr (bool).
Testing and Validation
Tested on actual hardware:
ESP32 (IDF 4 build) with 2 × 78 FW1906 RGB+CCT outputs (overlapping GPIO 2 / 16): on, off, reversals mid-sweep, repeated commands, boot with "turn on at boot", RGBW/full-white DDP while the sweep was enabled. That test used the same change on an earlier main (20e7a71), before the WLED Pixel Bus driver (New LED hardware driver: WLED Pixel Bus #5704) was merged; after rebasing it has only been compiled.
Compiled: nodemcuv2, esp32dev, esp32c3dev.
Open ends, known limitations, breaking changes:
Not available with WLED_DISABLE_GLOBAL_PIXELBUFFER (ESP8266) — I didn't find a lossless way to scale pixels once they are in the bus encode buffers.
Timings (2.5 s on / 2 s off) are fixed; the JSON tt / default transition time don't apply to the sweep.
Position follows the logical pixel index, not a ledmap.
Anything you couldn't quite solve?
Applying the sweep in direct-to-bus mode.
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New Features
Added an optional power on/off sweep for LED strips, configurable in LED settings. When enabled, power changes use the sweep instead of the standard transition time.
Live LED status updates now reflect the animation as it runs.
Bug Fixes
Power-off animations now finish with the LEDs fully off, and reversing an active animation preserves a smoother transition.
New LED setting "Power on/off sweep" (cfg light.tr.pwr, off by default).
When enabled, power changes use a per-pixel sweep instead of the
global power transition:
- ON: a soft front sweeps left to right while the lit part fades up to
~90% (2.0 s), then all pixels rise to full brightness (2.5 s).
- OFF: the strip fades out while a soft edge sweeps right to left;
black at 2.0 s, then the usual power-off (brightness 0, relay).
- Reversing mid-sweep continues from the levels last sent to each
pixel (ON never dims a pixel, OFF never brightens one); repeated
commands for the same state are ignored.
- Widths are fractions of the strip; on a matrix the sweep follows the
columns. Turning on at boot plays the ON sweep.
- R, G, B and W are scaled alike in the global pixel buffer's output
loop in WS2812FX::show(), using integer math only. Power requests
only record the target, so they are safe from network callbacks.
A 2 byte/LED buffer exists only while the option is enabled or a
sweep is running.
- Plain brightness changes keep the regular transition.
- Live views (/json/live, WS peek) show the animated output.
- Builds with WLED_DISABLE_GLOBAL_PIXELBUFFER (ESP8266) have no
per-pixel output loop: the setting is hidden there and power changes
keep the regular transition.
Adds an optional power on/off animation with per-pixel levels. The animation integrates with brightness transitions and LED output. The LED settings interface and configuration now expose the animation setting.
Changes
Power Sweep Animation
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Animation model and frame generation wled00/power_animation.h
PowerAnimation generates per-pixel levels for ON sweeps and OFF fades. It tracks requested state and handles reversals using the last sent levels.
Brightness transitions and pixel output wled00/led.cpp, wled00/FX.h, wled00/FX_fcn.cpp, wled00/json.cpp, wled00/ws.cpp
Brightness changes can request the animation. WS2812FX prepares and applies per-pixel levels, and live LED JSON and WebSocket output use faded colors.
Power animation setting wled00/wled.h, wled00/set.cpp, wled00/cfg.cpp, wled00/data/settings_leds.htm, wled00/xml.cpp
The PA setting is read from requests, persisted as light.tr.pwr, and exposed in the LED settings interface.
sequenceDiagram
participant Brightness as handleBriChange
participant Strip as WS2812FX
participant Animation as PowerAnimation
participant Output as Mapped LED output
Brightness->>Strip: request power animation
Strip->>Animation: prepare frame and pixel levels
Strip->>Output: send gamma-corrected pixels scaled by animation levels
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Possibly related PRs
wled/WLED#5654: It changes RGBW auto-white calculation, which receives pixel values scaled by the power animation.
Suggested labels: enhancement
Suggested reviewers: dedehai
Merge Risk: Low · up to c918c
With the sweep enabled, realtime streaming that forces maximum brightness while the strip is off may show black. The first power-on after enabling the option may also skip the animation. Both are limited to an optional feature, but the realtime case should be fixed before merge.
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Review comments at @wled00/power_animation.h:
- Line 55: Update the idle branch in the powerAnimation logic around _active and
idleFrame() to bypass the OFF mask when realtime is active, arlsForceMaxBri is
set, and realtime is not overridden. Preserve the existing idle behavior
otherwise, and keep stored brightness levels consistent with the output.
Review comments at @wled00/set.cpp:
- Line 454: Update the powerAnimation setting path so enabling it while the LEDs
are off schedules an off-state frame before power-on, allowing
preparePowerAnimation() to attach the buffer before _brightness16 rises. Apply
this behavior to both the PA request handling and the light.tr.pwr transition
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Do not apply the idle OFF mask to forced-brightness realtime output.
When powerAnimation is enabled and the strip is idle OFF, the mask can make realtime frames black even though arlsForceMaxBri sets the strip brightness to maximum. Bypass the idle OFF mask when realtime is active, maximum brightness is forced, and realtime is not overridden. Keep the stored levels consistent with the output.
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Update the idle branch in the powerAnimation logic around _active and
idleFrame() to bypass the OFF mask when realtime is active, arlsForceMaxBri is
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Initialize the sweep when enabling it while off.
If the LEDs are off and no off-refresh is required, the render loop can skip show(). The first power-on then raises _brightness16 before preparePowerAnimation() attaches the buffer, so it initializes the LEDs as already on and skips the sweep. Trigger an off-state frame when enabling the setting, including through light.tr.pwr. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @wled00/set.cpp at line 454:
Update the powerAnimation setting path so enabling it while the LEDs are off
schedules an off-state frame before power-on, allowing preparePowerAnimation()
to attach the buffer before _brightness16 rises. Apply this behavior to both the
PA request handling and the light.tr.pwr transition path.
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@coderabbitai can the same "ease-in" also be achieved with effect transitions (outside-in, push left, swipe right, etc), maybe in combination with power button presets?
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#!/bin/bashprintf'%s\n''=== Candidate transition and button preset references ==='
rg -n -i -C 2 'outside.in|swipe right|push left|power button preset|button.*preset|preset.*button|transition.*(blend|effect)|blend.*transition' wled00 -g '*.{cpp,h,js,htm}'| head -n 450
printf'%s\n''=== Transition and power animation outlines ==='forfin wled00/FX.h wled00/FX_fcn.cpp wled00/led.cpp wled00/power_animation.h wled00/json.cpp wled00/set.cpp;doecho"=== $f ==="
ast-grep outline "$f" --items all --match 'Transition|transition|Power|power|Preset|preset|State|state|Button|button'2>&1| head -n 180
doneprintf'%s\n''=== Additional button and preset source filenames ==='
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ast-grep outline wled00/data/index.js --items all --match 'toggle|power|Power|preset|Preset|transition|Transition'2>&1
ast-grep outline wled00/power_animation.h --items all 2>&1
ast-grep outline wled00/presets.cpp --items all 2>&1printf'%s\n''=== UI power overrides and transition field matches ==='
rg -n -C 4 'pwr|power|Power|toggle|onPreset|offPreset|preset.*[Oo]n|preset.*[Oo]ff|tt|tb|transition|blendingStyle' wled00/data/index.js wled00/json.cpp wled00/data/settings_ui.htm wled00/cfg.cpp wled00/wled.h | head -n 500
printf'%s\n''=== Transition initialization and reversal ==='
cat -n wled00/FX_fcn.cpp | sed -n '285,455p'printf'%s\n''=== Spatial rendering ==='
cat -n wled00/FX_fcn.cpp | sed -n '1570,1735p'printf'%s\n''=== Global power changes ==='
cat -n wled00/led.cpp | sed -n '35,180p'printf'%s\n''=== New sweep implementation ==='
cat -n wled00/power_animation.h | sed -n '1,220p'printf'%s\n''=== Preset loading ==='
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printf'%s\n''=== JSON state parsing ==='
cat -n wled00/json.cpp | sed -n '370,510p'printf'%s\n''=== JSON state serialization ==='
cat -n wled00/json.cpp | sed -n '648,725p'printf'%s\n''=== Spatial power blanking and progress ==='
rg -n -C 4 'isPowering|TRANSITION_FLAG_POWER_ON|invertClipping|spatialProgress|TRANSITION_SWIPE_RIGHT|TRANSITION_SWIPE_LEFT' wled00/FX_fcn.cpp | tail -n 230
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@softhack007 Yes—existing spatial transitions can produce a similar sweep, without this PR. They do not produce the same soft ease-in.
To try it, leave “Power on/off sweep” disabled, select Swipe right, and set a nonzero transition time. Spatial transitions already apply to power changes. They also handle repeated targets and attempt to reverse an active power transition. See led.cpp (Line 159) and FX_fcn.cpp (Line 393).
For different directions and times, you could assign these custom JSON presets to the pictured UI power-button overrides:
tt is a one-time duration in 100 ms units. The bs setting remains in effect for other transitions. The pictured overrides apply to the web UI power button, not automatically to physical buttons or API commands. Changing bs during a running transition may affect reversal, so that case needs a device test.
The main visual difference is that spatial transitions use a hard clipping edge per segment. This PR uses a soft per-pixel edge plus a brightness ramp across the strip. It also applies the sweep at global output rather than per segment. See FX_fcn.cpp (Line 1660) and power_animation.h (Line 7).
This comparison is based on code inspection; I have not tested it on hardware.
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uint8_t _poweringOnOff; // global power transition in progress: TRANSITION_POWER_ON/OFF, 0 = none (suppresses new segment transitions, see Segment::startTransition())
PowerAnimation _powerAnimation; // optional power on/off animation, rendered in show()
uint8_t *_powerLevels = nullptr; // its buffer (2 bytes per pixel), allocated only while the animation is enabled or running
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does strip.getPowerAnimationLevel(i) change with the pixel index? If not, i'd suggest moving the function call out of the pixel loop. This would provide better performance on bigger fixtures.
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@haslanli do you run several instances of this class in parallel? If not, changing the type to a C++ struct might be more efficient, as it avoids a huge number of indirect calls.
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same comment here: in case that strip.getPowerAnimationLevel(i) does not change depending on pixel index, its better to keep the function call outside of the inner loop.
The plot samples the integer implementation and rounds the vertical positions to the nearest 0.1.
The curve approximates 6t⁵ − 15t⁴ + 10t³, where t = x / ONE. It starts and ends with a flat slope and changes fastest near the middle. This gives the animation a gradual start and finish.
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What it does
Adds an optional "Power on/off sweep" to LED Preferences → Transitions (off by default). With it enabled, turning the lights on sweeps them in from left to right, and turning them off sweeps them out from right to left, instead of the regular fade:
How it works
wled00/power_animation.h(PowerAnimation): computes one level (0–255) per pixel for each frame. Integer (Q16) math only, so ESP32-C3/S2 without an FPU aren't slowed down. Trail and edge widths are fractions of the strip length; on a matrix the sweep follows the columns.WS2812FX::show()withcolor_fade(), after gamma, so R, G, B and W are scaled alike (RGBW and RGB+CCT keep their channel ratios).handleBriChange()starts the sweep for on/off changes when the option is enabled (strip.requestPowerAnimation()only records the target, so it is safe from network callbacks). During OFF the strip brightness is kept until the sweep is dark;handleTransitions()then applies the final brightness 0. Brightness-only changes fall through to the existing code./json/liveand the WS peek show the animated levels.WLED_DISABLE_GLOBAL_PIXELBUFFER(currently ESP8266) have no per-pixel output loop, so the option is hidden there and power changes keep the regular transition.light.tr.pwr(bool).Testing and Validation
main(20e7a71), before the WLED Pixel Bus driver (New LED hardware driver: WLED Pixel Bus #5704) was merged; after rebasing it has only been compiled.nodemcuv2,esp32dev,esp32c3dev.WLED_DISABLE_GLOBAL_PIXELBUFFER(ESP8266) — I didn't find a lossless way to scale pixels once they are in the bus encode buffers.tt/ default transition time don't apply to the sweep.Checklist
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