Animations

An animation is one lighting mode — a look the strip shows. You pick a mode, and a few shared controls (brightness, speed, color, direction) tune how it looks. Everything you choose is saved, so the strip comes back the same after a power cut.

Modes

Mode	What it looks like
`off`	Fades the strip smoothly down to black, then stays off.
`white`	Solid white.
`static`	A solid color of your choosing (see Color). Fades in from one end when you switch to it.
`blink`	Your chosen color flashing on and off. Speed controls how fast it blinks.
`rainbow`	A rainbow that scrolls along the strip. Its speed and direction are adjustable, and it works with segmenting.
`runner`	A short trail of light that chases along the strip, brightest in the middle and fading at the ends.

Shared controls

These apply across modes and are set together with the mode (over MQTT, or cycled with the button):

Brightness

brightness runs from 1 to 100 — a simple percentage of full brightness. 100 is as bright as the strip goes; lower values dim everything evenly.

Speed

speed also runs from 1 to 100, and controls how fast the animated modes move. It affects rainbow, runner, and blink; white and static ignore it.

Mode	What speed feels like
`runner`	How fast the trail travels. `10` takes about 14 seconds to go once around a 144-LED strip; `100` sweeps it in under 2 seconds.
`rainbow`	How fast the rainbow scrolls. `10` is roughly one full color cycle per second; `100` is strobe-fast.
`blink`	How fast it flashes. `10` blinks a little slower than once a second; `100` blinks five times a second.

Comfortable everyday values are around 5–20.

Color

color is a single [red, green, blue] value (each 0–255) used by the color-driven modes — static fills the strip with it, blink flashes it, and runner’s trail takes it. white and rainbow ignore it.

Direction

direction is either "forward" or "backward". "backward" mirrors the strip so animations play from the far end instead of the near end. It affects every mode except off.

Segmenting

Segmenting splits the strip into repeating blocks, so a pattern repeats every few LEDs instead of stretching across the whole strip once. Configure it under leds.segmenting:

"segmenting": {"enabled": true, "length": 5}

enabled turns it on; length is how many LEDs each repeat spans (minimum 2).
It only affects modes that repeat sensibly — mainly rainbow. Solid fills and the single running trail always use the whole strip.
If length ends up as large as the strip, the whole strip is treated as one block (no repeat).