Overflowing RAM

[JackSwieper]

Heya,

I recently upgraded my gaming PC with some ambilight. I cheaped out on the controller part and got a Arduino Nano Knockoff to run Adalight and control my ~250 LEDs (in hindsight yes thats a tad much). With Hyperion i rarely got more then 10+ fps on the LEDS and with HyperHDR i easily get ~30 and thats making me a big fan of this fork :)

However i run into this issue that the ambilight inevitably causes my PC to freeze every few hours - the RAM gets eaten up like its nothing. From my limited testing this doesnt happen with Hyperion, however as i said before i like HyperHDRs serial controller implementation way more since its a lot smoother.

My pc has 32 GB RAM and whenever the freeze hits HyperHDR uses 99% of that. Then i cant close it by any means (taskmanager, admin cmd kill) until i unplug the arduino nano. Afterwards ive still got to close HyperHDR to start it again and everything will run normally again for the next few hours. Now this is just a tiny inconvinience but i thought id just ask your opinion on the matter - is it really HyperHDR or is it something with Adalight? I dont find much on my specific problem online...

[awawa-dev]

Hi
Arduino Nano is not recommended because it's limited and legacy solution for smaller setups https://github.com/awawa-dev/HyperSerialEsp8266?tab=readme-ov-file#why-not-arduino-raspberry-pi-or-wled. Please get one of the rp2040 boards, preferable with built-in level shifter instead. No sure why you get 30FPS, in my test I've manged get max 20FPS using 500000 baud. If you are using lower speed sketch it should be even lower. Probably system nano serial port driver is overflowed.

[JackSwieper]

Hmmmmmm alright i shouldve guessed its the controller bridge but i didnt want to admit to myself. Thanks for the fast reply and recommendation 👍