How To Use the TruOpto OST4ML5B32A RGB LED

Question

I recently purchased the TruOpto OST4ML5B32A RGB LED to use with the Raspberry Pi. I've viewed the datasheet https://www.rapidonline.com/pdf/72-9625.pdf for the LED and believe I need to send pulses to the DIn leg of the LED as is shown in 1. Data Format of the datasheet.

I am now struggling to find out how to generate this square wave form from the rapsberry pi.

I believe that each 8 bits of information is sent within a 3ms time period. I get this from section 3. of the datasheet but I am not too sure on this.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to generate this waveform or has anybody used this LED before?

Answer 1

I do not know if the following will work but it is what I would try.

I'm going to assume DI is connected to GPIO4 (pin 7).

I would connect two 2k resistors to GPIO4. One between GPIO4 and ground, the other between GPIO4 and 3V3. This will form a resistor divider resulting in a voltage of about 1.7V on GPIO4 when it set to be an input. This forms the middle voltage (Z) of the needed signal. Setting GPIO4 as an output means that writing high or low will form the H or L voltage of the needed signal.

#!/usr/bin/env python

# OST4ML5B32A.py
# 2107-01-26
# Public Domain

import time
import pigpio

LED_GPIO=4 # Broadcom GPIO number

def send_bit(pi, GPIO, bit):
   #print(bit)
   pi.write(GPIO, bit)
   pi.set_mode(GPIO, pigpio.INPUT)

def send_byte(pi, GPIO, byte):
   #print("B", byte)
   for bit in range(8):
      send_bit(pi, GPIO, (byte>>(7-bit)) & 1)

def send_list(pi, GPIO, bytes):
   #print(bytes)
   for byte in bytes:
      send_byte(pi, GPIO, byte)

pi = pigpio.pi()
if not pi.connected:
   exit()

end_time = time.time()+60

B=0
G=0
R=0

while time.time() < end_time:

   send_list(pi, LED_GPIO, [B, G, R, B, G, R])

   B += 1
   if B > 255:
      B = 0
      G += 1
      if G > 255:
          G = 0
          R += 1
          if R > 255:
             R = 0

   time.sleep(0.003)

pi.stop()