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Hyperion like layout in backlight.mll.

  • top, right, bottom, left — a count per edge, replacing across and down
  • gapLength + gapStart — the lights the strand doesn't have, and where they'd have been, so the stretch a TV stand covers can sit mid-edge
  • position and reverse — Hyperion's own names for rotating the strand past its entry and running it the other way
  • startCorner — names that corner, which Hyperion leaves to position alone

placeLights walks the perimeter through mod() instead of four hard-coded segments, so these reorder indices only; the coordinates stay a property of the box. With equal edges and no gap the walk is unchanged, so an existing frame keeps its order.

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  • New Features
    • Backlight layouts now let you set light counts independently for each edge, skip a section of the perimeter, and choose the strand’s starting corner, position, and direction.
    • Light placement avoids duplicating corner positions and keeps remaining lights in place when a gap is configured.
  • Documentation
    • Updated metrics documentation to report a stale help-file check and a Python bindings/libclang compatibility diagnostic.

The backlight layout took one count for the top and bottom and another for the sides, and placed its lights clockwise from the top-left corner. A real strand rarely matches either: it enters at whichever corner the wiring reaches, runs whichever way the installer ran it, and is often missing the stretch a TV stand covers. Mapped against those assumptions the picture arrives rotated, or wrapped around lights that are not there.

Hyperion's classic layout already names all of this, so this follows it and a layout copied from there carries over:

- `top`, `right`, `bottom` and `left`, a count per edge, replacing `across` and `down`.
- `gapLength` and `gapStart`: the lights the strand does not have, and where they would have been. A length and a place rather than a dark edge, so the gap can sit mid-edge where a stand actually is.
- `position` rotates the strand past its entry corner and `reverse` runs it the other way, Hyperion's own two names.
- `startCorner` names that corner, which Hyperion leaves to `position` alone.

`placeLights` walks the perimeter through `mod()` rather than four hard-coded segments, so these reorder INDICES only: the emitted coordinates stay a property of the box. A gap is the one thing that removes a light, and `perimeterAt` maps a strand position across it, which keeps the walk a plain rotation.

Tests read the shipped script rather than a copy. Each of the eight wirings is written out as the sequence it emits on a 4x3 wall, which catches a walk visiting the right cells in the wrong order; `position` is checked as a rotation in both directions; a gap is checked to remove a run and leave every other light where it was; and a strand coarser than the wall still reaches its edge pixels.

With the edges equal and no gap the walk is unchanged, so an existing frame keeps its order. Verified against a 60x34, 184-light strand. The golden IR line is regenerated, since main pins every shipped script's compiled form.

Hyperion's `ledsHDepth` and `ledsVDepth` are deliberately absent: how far into the picture a light samples belongs to the effect, not to where the lights are.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The backlight layout now places configurable strands around a wall perimeter. The generated metrics report records one error for the stale docs/help/help.json check.

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Perimeter controls and placement
moonlive/layouts/backlight.mll
The layout replaces shared edge counts with per-edge counts and adds gap, start corner, position, and direction controls. Placement maps the strand around the perimeter and returns without adding lights when its calculated length is below one.
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test/unit/light/unit_MoonLiveLayout.cpp, test/unit/light/moonlive_ir_golden.inc
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Some allowed backlight settings place lights at wrong or invalid positions, such as a reversed strand with a large offset or a gap that wraps past the starting corner. Fix the index normalization before merging.

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@Gohnnyman Gohnnyman changed the title Describe a backlight strand the way Hyperion does feat: Hyperion-like backlight strand Oct 16, 2026
@Gohnnyman Gohnnyman changed the title feat: Hyperion-like backlight strand feature: Hyperion-like backlight strand Oct 16, 2026

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Review comments at @moonlive/layouts/backlight.mll:
- Line 89: Update the reverse-start calculation in the reverse branch to
normalize position within the strand length before subtracting it from
strandStart(). Ensure s is always a nonnegative index in the range 0 through n -
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- Line 66: Update perimeterAt() and strandStart() to handle gaps whose gapStart
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- Line 985: Update the coordinate validation in the test so `x` is within 0–59
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- Around line 1052-1053: Expand the gap-boundary tests around the `gapped` case
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Comment thread moonlive/layouts/backlight.mll Outdated
// The gap is a stretch of the frame the strand skips, so a strand position past it sits that many
// lights further round. This is what keeps the walk a plain rotation with a gap in it.
int perimeterAt(int i) {
if (gapLength > 0 && i >= gapStart) { return i + gapLength; }

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Handle gaps that cross the top-left corner.

gapStart and gapLength allow values that cross the perimeter boundary. When full = 86, gapStart = 85, and gapLength = 2, n = 84, so perimeterAt() receives only indices 0..83. Its gap branch never runs. The layout emits positions 0..83, which skips 84 and 85 instead of 85 and 0.

Map wrapped gaps across perimeter index 0, and apply the same mapping in strandStart().

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Update perimeterAt() and strandStart() to handle gaps whose gapStart plus
gapLength crosses the perimeter boundary: map the wrapped gap across index 0 so
the gap excludes the intended perimeter positions, including the final and
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if (n < 1) { return; }
// Along the STRAND, not around the frame: on a reversed strand the entry moves the other way too.
int s = mod(strandStart() + position, n);
if (reverse == 1) { s = mod(strandStart() - position + n + n, n); }

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Normalize the reverse start before traversing.

With the default counts, startCorner = 0, reverse = 1, and position = 200, n is 86 and the current expression computes mod(-28, 86). mod() returns a signed remainder, so s remains negative. The reverse loop can then pass a negative index to emitAt(), which can produce a negative coordinate.

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--- "a/moonlive/layouts/backlight.mll"
+++ "b/moonlive/layouts/backlight.mll"
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
     if (n < 1) { return; }
     // Along the STRAND, not around the frame: on a reversed strand the entry moves the other way too.
     int s = mod(strandStart() + position, n);
-    if (reverse == 1) { s = mod(strandStart() - position + n + n, n); }
+    if (reverse == 1) { s = mod(strandStart() + n - mod(position, n), n); }
     for (int i = 0; i < n; i = i + 1) {
       if (reverse == 1) { emitAt(perimeterAt(mod(s + n - mod(i, n), n))); }
       else { emitAt(perimeterAt(mod(s + i, n))); }
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if (reverse == 1) { s = mod(strandStart() - position + n + n, n); }
if (reverse == 1) { s = mod(strandStart() + n - mod(position, n), n); }
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// On the edges and filling the box: a light off the perimeter would light the wall's middle.
for (const auto& c : p) {
CHECK(c.z == 0);
CHECK((c.x == 0 || c.x == 59 || c.y == 0 || c.y == 33));

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check both coordinate bounds.

The edge condition accepts (60, 0) on a 60×34 wall because y == 0. If that coordinate replaces a non-corner cell, the count, uniqueness, and corner checks can also pass. Check x within 0–59 and y within 0–33 before the edge condition. As per path instructions: “Verify tests cover edge cases”.

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const char* gapped = "{\"wallCols\":8,\"wallRows\":6,\"top\":8,\"right\":4,\"bottom\":8,\"left\":4,"
"\"gapStart\":11,\"gapLength\":3}";

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Cover gap boundaries.

This case checks only a three-light interior gap. Add cases for gapLength: 0 and a gap that ends at the final strand position. These cases check that boundary gaps preserve the expected count and order. As per path instructions: “Verify tests cover edge cases”.

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Hi @Gohnnyman, thanks, this is very close! Every point from #140 is in, and the Hyperion step on top of it (a count per edge, the gap, position and reverse) is exactly what I hoped for. One topic, four files, one commit, CI green: easy to review.

Three things before I merge:

  1. Please drop the docs/reference/metrics/docgen.md change. It records 1 error, "help.json stale", which is check_docgen reporting that it could not load libclang on your machine (the "unchecked" path), not a problem in the tree. Main has to stay at 0 errors, and backlight.mll is not in help.json, so this PR changes nothing that report counts. Restoring the file from main is enough.

  2. A reversed strand with a large position places lights off the wall (CodeRabbit's major finding, it holds). MoonLive's mod is C's %, so it keeps the sign: mod(strandStart() - position + n + n, n) goes negative once position passes about 2n, and the control allows up to 2000. Reducing first fixes it: int p = mod(position, n);, then mod(strandStart() - p + n, n).

  3. A gap that runs past the top-left corner skips the wrong lights (CodeRabbit's minor finding, also holds): gapStart 85 with gapLength 2 on an 86-light frame never reaches the gap branch. Either let it wrap round the corner or clamp it; any input has to place lights on the frame.

And the tests that pin them:

  • a reversed strand with a position larger than the strand, and a gap crossing the corner;
  • in the edge test, check each light lies inside the wall too: as it stands, (60, 0) on a 60×34 wall would pass;
  • a gap that ends at the last light.

A nit, take it or leave it: startCorner reads better in the UI as top-left|top-right|bottom-right|bottom-left than as TL|TR|BR|BL.

After that it is a clean merge: the defaults keep an existing frame's order, and the walk is the textbook one. Thanks again!

A position past the strand's length now counts round it again, reversed strands too, and a gap that runs past the top-left corner wraps onto the top edge instead of skipping the wrong lights. The gap is capped at every light but one, so any setting places lights. Tests pin a large position on a reversed strand, a gap crossing the corner, a gap ending at the last light, and every light inside the wall; docgen.md is back to the base, since the libclang error it recorded was the machine's, not the tree's.
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Thanks @Gohnnyman! We added one commit to your branch for the points from the last review, so it is ready to merge: a position past the strand's length now counts round it, reversed strands too, a gap crossing the top-left corner wraps onto the top edge, and docgen.md is back to main's. Tests pin each case, and the whole suite passes here.

The Hyperion-style wiring is a really nice addition, thank you.

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