[person_of_color]

Im building a setup now. Any tips on libraries for esp8266 to control the maximum number of leds via i2s DMA?

[leggomylibro]

Well, there's an ESP8266 board called the "PixelBlaze" which is designed for driving these LEDs, but I don't think the firmware is open source:

https://www.bhencke.com/pixelblaze

This page seems to have more information about a couple of different methods - apparently it's also possible to use a UART peripheral:

https://github.com/Makuna/NeoPixelBus/wiki/ESP8266-NeoMethod...

[detaro]

FastLED is quite popular: https://github.com/FastLED/FastLED/wiki/ESP8266-notes

[semi-extrinsic]

If you want maximum number of LEDs, I think you want the four-wire LED strips that are driven over SPI, like the APA102 and similar. Much faster than bit-banging on the three-wire strips.

[rowanG077]

If you want max number of LEDs you have to use HUB based LED panels. They are way cheaper. But harder to control.

[person_of_color]

Got a link?

[rowanG077]

For instance: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/32969045578.html?spm=a2g0o.pr...

You can find how to control them if you search for HUB75. For a couple of dollars you got 2048 LEDS. You can get them in different sizes and LED pitches.