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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. WalkthroughTransition durations now use 32-bit storage and support up to 24 hours. Runtime progress calculations avoid overflow for long transitions. Configuration, API, playlist, web inputs, and UDP synchronization apply corresponding limits and conversions. ChangesTransition Duration Support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ConfigOrAPI
participant WS2812FX
participant transitionProgress
participant handleTransitions
ConfigOrAPI->>WS2812FX: Set duration in milliseconds
WS2812FX->>WS2812FX: Clamp to TRANSITION_MAX_DUR
handleTransitions->>transitionProgress: elapsed and duration
transitionProgress-->>handleTransitions: Scaled 16-bit progress
handleTransitions->>handleTransitions: Interpolate brightness
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Long playlist and one-shot transitions may run for the wrong duration on synchronized devices and can finish slightly early locally. Resolve these issues before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@wled00/FX.h`:
- Line 70: Update the transition ratio calculation in the surrounding
transition-progress function to use an exact 64-bit multiplication and division,
removing the independent right shifts of elapsed and duration. Ensure the
function cannot return 0xFFFFU before elapsed reaches duration, while preserving
the existing uint16_t result type and completion behavior.
In `@wled00/udp.cpp`:
- Line 68: Update the udpTransitionDelay calculation in the UDP packet
construction to clamp the active duration returned by strip.getTransition()
instead of the persistent transitionDelay default, preserving the existing
16-bit maximum clamp.
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| elapsed >>= shift; | ||
| duration >>= shift; | ||
| } | ||
| return elapsed * 0xFFFFU / duration; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Prevent early completion for long transitions.
The right shifts truncate elapsed and duration independently. For a 24-hour duration, this returns 0xFFFFU at 86,398,976 ms, which is 1,024 ms early. Segment::handleTransition() then stops the transition early, and brightness reaches its final value early.
Use an exact 64-bit ratio, or ensure this function cannot return 0xFFFFU before elapsed >= duration.
Proposed fix
- if (duration > 0xFFFFU) {
- const unsigned shift = 32 - __builtin_clz(duration) - 16;
- elapsed >>= shift;
- duration >>= shift;
- }
- return elapsed * 0xFFFFU / duration;
+ return static_cast<uint16_t>(
+ (static_cast<uint64_t>(elapsed) * 0xFFFFU) / duration
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In `@wled00/FX.h` at line 70, Update the transition ratio calculation in the
surrounding transition-progress function to use an exact 64-bit multiplication
and division, removing the independent right shifts of elapsed and duration.
Ensure the function cannot return 0xFFFFU before elapsed reaches duration, while
preserving the existing uint16_t result type and completion behavior.
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| udpOut[17] = (transitionDelay >> 0) & 0xFF; | ||
| udpOut[18] = (transitionDelay >> 8) & 0xFF; | ||
| // the sync protocol carries the transition time as 16 bit value, so longer transitions are capped for receivers | ||
| uint16_t udpTransitionDelay = MIN(transitionDelay, (uint32_t)0xFFFF); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Encode the active transition duration.
transitionDelay is the persistent default duration. Playlist playback and one-shot JSON transitions update strip without updating transitionDelay. If a playlist entry uses 120 seconds while the default is 750 ms, this packet sends 750 ms and synchronized receivers finish far before the sender.
Clamp strip.getTransition() instead.
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- uint16_t udpTransitionDelay = MIN(transitionDelay, (uint32_t)0xFFFF);
+ uint16_t udpTransitionDelay = MIN(strip.getTransition(), (uint32_t)0xFFFF);📝 Committable suggestion
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| uint16_t udpTransitionDelay = MIN(transitionDelay, (uint32_t)0xFFFF); | |
| uint16_t udpTransitionDelay = MIN(strip.getTransition(), (uint32_t)0xFFFF); |
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In `@wled00/udp.cpp` at line 68, Update the udpTransitionDelay calculation in the
UDP packet construction to clamp the active duration returned by
strip.getTransition() instead of the persistent transitionDelay default,
preserving the existing 16-bit maximum clamp.
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others do. this has been attempted before, the reason to not do this is simple: it can not be synced and is not backwards compatible. long transitions are possible with the slow transition FX I made especially for this niche case. |
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Sure, I wasn't suggesting that the sync problem should be ignored, just that in testing, I didn't spend time testing it out under the assumption that reviewers would want some kind of change to how sync is handled. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I can see a few approaches:
For me, using the effect is a non-starter. It greatly complicates downstream things in my setup, while this change allows WLED to fit in seamlessly. What would it take to make this change feasible in your mind? This change works perfectly for my needs, so regardless of what happens with this PR, I plan running this patch indefinitely. Of course, I'd really rather not have to maintain a fork. |
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The issue I am having with this is that it is a hack that is cast over legacy code we can not change. I already mentioned we looked into this and decided not to extend transitions - they are transitions and not effects themselves, there is a number of issues that can arise which then again need workarounds. |
| unsigned diff = millis() - _t->_start; | ||
| if (_t->_dur > 0 && diff < _t->_dur) _t->_progress = diff * 0xFFFFU / _t->_dur; | ||
| } | ||
| if (isInTransition()) _t->_progress = transitionProgress(millis() - _t->_start, _t->_dur); |
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def old(elapsed, duration):
return 0xFFFF if elapsed >= duration else (elapsed * 0xFFFF) // duration
def new(elapsed, duration):
if elapsed >= duration:
return 0xFFFF
if duration > 0xFFFF:
shift = duration.bit_length() - 16
elapsed >>= shift
duration >>= shift
return (elapsed * 0xFFFF) // duration
for duration in (65536, 100000, 86400000):
first = next((elapsed for elapsed in range(duration)
if old(elapsed, duration) != new(elapsed, duration)), None)
print(f"duration={duration}, first_difference={first}, "
f"old={old(first, duration) if first is not None else None}, "
f"new={new(first, duration) if first is not None else None}")
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@softhack007, the verification confirms the difference.
For durations up to 65535 ms, the helper uses the same calculation as the original code.
For longer durations, the helper changes intermediate progress values because it truncates both operands before division. Examples:
- At
65536ms,elapsed = 3produces1instead of2. - At
100000ms,elapsed = 5produces2instead of3. - At
86400000ms,elapsed = 1319produces0instead of1.
The completion behavior remains the same. The long-duration behavior is still valid for avoiding 32-bit multiplication overflow, but the comment is incorrect: the scaling is not exact and does lose progress resolution.
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@DedeHai Since you've clearly decided this won't happen regardless of what the code looks like, I will not pursue contributing further. Any readers interested in running this on their device can find binaries of this patch here. |
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This PR adds support for transitions longer than ~65 seconds. This has been requested before (eg #650, #5095, and #5375) but those issues were closed without action.
Comments in those issues (and elsewhere online) point out a number of workarounds to the old limit:
These workarounds do…work, but they remain fundamentally ugly workarounds to a limit that doesn't really need to exist.
What has motivated me to work on this change is my Home Assistant setup. I have a number of automations that require longer transitions, and include various devices (including ESPHome and commercial products) in addition to WLED all being orchestrated together.
WLED is the only firmware that chokes on longer transition times. Every other device I'm using handles them just fine.
What I really want to do is be able to include WLED devices in a Home Assistant Scene with other types of devices, fire
scene.turn_onwith arbitrarytransitiontimes, and have all the devices fade on/off over durations longer than a minute.Using any of those workarounds requires unpleasant special-casing of WLED devices in my automations. With this PR, everything just works, and my WLED devices transition with long durations with no special treatment.
There was a 65535ms transition limit because the duration variable was stored as a
uint16_t. This widens it touint32_tand adjusts the related math to handle the larger int. I've capped the new maximum transition time to 24h for sanity.This avoids making any breaking API changes. As best I can tell, these are the only impacts on the outward-facing API:
65535. This does mean that as it stands, if you start a transition longer than 65s, any sync receivers would transition too fast. Other than the undesired transition length, nothing breaks./jsonand/json/state) can obviously now possibly include values larger than before (in the unlikely event the user has adjusted their defaulttransitiontime to be longer than a minute — it doesn't look like anything reports the running transition length). However, given that we're talking about JSON text, this doesn't break anything on a protocol level. imo, this is pretty low risk.I could find no other places where this change impacts the APIs WLED provides.
Tested on two ESP32s with WS2814 RGBW LEDs. One is a simple single-strip, 38 LED setup. The other has 2 strips on 2 pins with 210 LEDs each. No issues observed.
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