* Improved heap and PSRAM handling
- Segment `allocateData()` uses more elaborate DRAM checking to reduce fragmentation and allow for larger setups to run on low heap
- Segment data allocation fails if minimum contiguous block size runs low to keep the UI working
- Increased `MAX_SEGMENT_DATA` to account for better segment data handling
- Memory allocation functions try to keep enough DRAM for segment data
- Added constant `PSRAM_THRESHOLD` to improve PSARM usage
- Increase MIN_HEAP_SIZE to reduce risk of breaking UI due to low memory for JSON response
- ESP32 makes use of IRAM (no 8bit access) for pixeluffers, freeing up to 50kB of RAM
- Fix to properly get available heap on all platforms: added function `getFreeHeapSize()`
- Bugfix for effects that divide by SEGLEN: don't run FX in service() if segment is not active
-Syntax fix in AR: calloc() uses (numelements, size) as arguments
* Added new functions for allocation and heap checking
- added `allocate_buffer()` function that can be used to allocate large buffers: takes parameters to set preferred ram location, including 32bit accessible RAM on ESP32. Returns null if heap runs low or switches to PSRAM
- getFreeHeapSize() and getContiguousFreeHeap() helper functions for all platforms to correctly report free useable heap
- updated some constants
- updated segment data allocation to free the data if it is large
- replaced "psramsafe" variable with it's #ifdef: BOARD_HAS_PSRAM and made accomodating changes
- added some compile-time checks to handle invalid env. definitions
- updated all allocation functions and some of the logic behind them
- added use of fast RTC-Memory where available
- increased MIN_HEAP_SIZE for all systems (improved stability in tests)
- updated memory calculation in web-UI to account for required segment buffer
- added UI alerts if buffer allocation fails
- made getUsedSegmentData() non-private (used in buffer alloc function)
- changed MAX_SEGMENT_DATA
- added more detailed memory log to DEBUG output
- added debug output to buffer alloc function
* updated color scaling to preserve hue at low brightness resulting in much better colors
* replace NPBlg with NPB, moved brightness scaling to bus manager
* improved gamma table calculation: fixed mismatch in inverting gamma table calculation: inversion should now be as good as it gets
* code cleanup, fixed gamma being applied in unnecessary places
Improvements to ABL handling:
- removed strip level handling, ist now all done on bus level
- limiter now respects pixel mapping
- proper handling of white channel
- improved current estimation
- current is now always correctly reported to UI
- minimal FPS impact if the ABL is not limiting but slighly higher impact for global ABL limit due to double-scaling
- moved brightness scaling to BusDigital
- created new header file colors.h to be able to access color functions in bus-manager.
- updated colo_fade() with better video scaling to preserve hue's at low brightness
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_fade (negligible speed impact when compared to inline and benefits other functions)
- added IRAM_ATTR to color_blend as it is used a lot throughout the code, did not test speed impact but adding it to color_fade made it almost on-par with an inlined function
Additional changes:
- fixes for properly handling `scaledBri()` (by @blazoncek)
- also use bit-shift instead of division in blending for ESP8266
- improvements for faster "softlight" calculation in blending
- changed some variables to uint8_t to maybe let the compiler optimize better, uint8_t can be faster if read, store and set are all done in uint8_t, which is the case in the ones I changed
- various minor code formatting changes
- Bugfixes in FX data allocation: realloc was not handled properly.
- Added *intermediate* fix for waitForIt(), see https://github.com/wled/WLED/issues/4779
- Bugfix in 1D->2D expansions: corner-expansion MUST be boundary checked as it blindly writes the max dimension
- removed some realloc(), improving fragmentation on large setups
- increased min heap constant
- ESP32 C3 has no PSRAM, it now uses default alloc functions
- also added missing UI info for "Error 7"
- Photoshop-style segment/layer blending
- return of strip ABL
- remove global LED buffer in favour of segment-local buffer
- new effect blending modes/transitions
- custom palettes moved out of WS2812FX class
- increased limits (matrix size, LED RAM)
- added "rainbow"-mode colorwheel
- replaced palettes with gamma unmodified ones
- move gamma adjustment to last step before sending to LEDs
- Segment & WS2812FX class reorganisation (mutable members, reordered members, protected members)
- Implement vector in bus manager
- Memory calculation according to explanation from @Makuna
- Prefer 8 RMT before 8 I2S on ESP32 (fixes#4380)
- speed improvements in ABL
- verbose debugging
- get bus size from NPB (prototype)
- Parallel I2S output bugfix
- automatic selection of appropriate I2S bus (`X1xxxxxxMethod`)
- removed I2S0 on ESP32 (used by AudioReactive)
- renumbered internal bus numbers (iType)
- added buffer size reporting
* changed some parameters to "pointer to const", so compiler can better optimize code size and performance - because data behind a const pointer will never be modified by the called function.
* made setPixelColor `const`
* fixed a few potentially uninitialized local vars (the may have random values if not initialized)
* avoid shadowing "state" in handleSerial()
* plus a few very minor improvements
- code is a bit cleaner and faster as well
- chaning array access to pointer access in bus_manager makes it a few instructions faster
- changed getNumberOfPins and getNumberOfChannels to return 32bit values, saving the unnecessary 8bit conversion
NeoPixelBus requires that all parallel I2S bus members be constructed
before any of them call Begin(). Implement this by deferring the
call to the end of bus construction.
Fixes#4301.
Use the phase-locked soft PWM from the Arduino core to implement the
same PWM phase management as ESP32s are using. The soft PWM code is
vendored in, as it was previously, to add the NMI workaround from #4035.
Completes #4034
uint16_t to unsigned to make it consisten throughout the hand-down.
colorFromPaletteWLED now returns uint32_t which saves the conversion to CRGB and back to uint32_t (in most uses at least).
also added (preliminary) CRGBW struct. I tried to use it in place of uint32_t colors but it adds a lot of overhead when passing the struct so reverted to uint32_t in most places.
updated a few FX to use the CRGBW struct and also cleaned some code to improve flash useage.
