Can WC8 put out UDP packets?

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LarrylLix

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This board would make an excellent WiFi to MiLight LED RGBW LED strip and bulb controller if it could input over Wifi from an ISY994i HA controller and output UDP packets to a MiLight bridge.
 
The problem is that the MiLight bridge requires UDP bytes with 100ms gaps between some of them to control colours and brightness.
 
Is there any way this is possible with the  existing firmware or adaptable with a modified version? I don't know enough about UDP protocol to understand this, yet.
 
Most users are giving up on the LimitlessLED bridges and controllers and changing over to Fibaro controllers to effect this control but the boxes are extremely expensive.
 
That is possible, if we know exactly what the UDP packets looks like, since UDP protocol sends out request and not check respond, it will not have problem.
We tried to add PING function to WC8, and WC8 seems not able to receive the reply from host close by, since CPU busy handle other tasks.  UDP does not have that requirement, so it might work.
 
Do you have exact spec for that communication protocol?
 
http://www.limitlessled.com/dev/

Look just under the massive links for the codes. Most are two bytes and some use two-three bytes with a 100msec gap required before another two to three bytes.
 
Should be easy to do 100msec delay and the straight send should be easy. The input would be Tcp/Ip sent to the WC8 to initiate the UDP packets. Some passed parameters would be excellent.
 
The RGBW LED strips are excellent and the bulbs match their colour exactly! They can perform all colours unlike the Philips Hue bulbs which cannot do green or real blue. Hue bulbs can mix white and  RGB though but  nobody has managed to do that on the MiLight LEDs yet.
 
Looks like the protocol is broadcast to 255.255.255.255 with 3 bytes.
In one example, it seems it also listen to respond from wifi bridge?  WC8 probably could not do listening, since its CPU can not listen on the network full time.
 
***sigh*** Too bad, it looked like a solution for a lot of HA people.
 
Thanks for your thoughts into this.
 
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