{"id":1416,"date":"2011-03-07T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T15:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T08:15:55","slug":"cirrus7-light-commander-firmware-released-under-the-gpl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/blog\/cirrus7-light-commander-firmware-released-under-the-gpl-3\/","title":{"rendered":"cirrus7 Light-Commander firmware released under the GPL-3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">For some time we had planned this step &#8211; now it&#8217;s finally time. We have the new one\u00a0<strong>Light-Commander<\/strong>\u00a0Firmware in the version\u00a0<strong>0.5.1<\/strong>\u00a0for controlling the lighting via the integrated\u00a0<strong>LEDs<\/strong>\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">cirrus7 one<\/a>\u00a0as a source code under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.de\/documents\/gpl-3.0.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">GPL-3<\/a> released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">To the\u00a0<strong>Light-Commander<\/strong>\u00a0Potentially making firmware interesting for other LED lighting projects, such as mood lights, we&#8217;ve significantly expanded and generalized the new version.<\/p>\n<div class=\"auto-hide-last-sibling-br paragraph-JOTKXA paragraph-element br-paragraph-space\"><strong>What&#8217;s New in Light-Commander 0.5.1:<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul class=\"auto-hide-last-sibling-br\">\n<li><strong>Expanded Functionality:<\/strong>\u00a0The new version offers enhanced control over LED lighting, making it suitable for a wider range of projects, including mood lights, ambient lighting, and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Generalized Framework:<\/strong>\u00a0The firmware has been generalized to make it easier to adapt to different LED lighting configurations and projects.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Open Source Release:<\/strong>\u00a0The source code for Light-Commander 0.5.1 is available under the GPL-3 license, encouraging community contributions and fostering innovation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comprehensive Documentation:<\/strong>\u00a0We&#8217;ve provided comprehensive documentation for the firmware and the serial protocol, making it easier for developers to understand and use Light-Commander.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"auto-hide-last-sibling-br paragraph-JOTKXA paragraph-element br-paragraph-space\"><strong>Where to Find the Firmware and Documentation:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">For the hosting of the source code and the documentation for the serial protocol, we have chosen\u00a0<a title=\"cirrus7 google-code\" href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/cirrus7-light-commander\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">google code<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\">The firmware and documentation will continue to be supplemented and maintained by us in the future. We hope for a lot of interest from the\u00a0<strong>Community<\/strong>\u00a0and wish you a lot of fun with\u00a0<strong>Light-Commander<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/blog\/ArduinoProMini240.jpg\" alt=\"ArduinoProMini240\" width=\"240\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An update of the firmware for\u00a0<strong>cirrus7 one<\/strong>-Customers in the form of an executable file will be available shortly in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"\">Support page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some time we had planned this step &#8211; now it&#8217;s finally time. We have the new one\u00a0Light-Commander\u00a0Firmware in the version\u00a00.5.1\u00a0for controlling the lighting via the integrated\u00a0LEDs\u00a0in the cirrus7 one\u00a0as a source code under the\u00a0GPL-3 released. To the\u00a0Light-Commander\u00a0Potentially making firmware interesting for other LED lighting projects, such as mood lights, we&#8217;ve significantly expanded and generalized the new version. What&#8217;s New &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/blog\/cirrus7-light-commander-firmware-released-under-the-gpl-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[219,77],"tags":[217,380],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9764,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/9764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cirrus7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}