Resolved by DJ Sures!
I see there is a NeoPixel (software) Control Ok - Now what? Board 1, Port D8 -- do I connect my ring here? I see it says, "no" but that was two years ago, before this control appeared...
Is there a hardware component I need to buy because this sounds like hardware: "The NeoPixel controller is a compact ezbit which controls up to 640 neo pixels on 8 different output ports. The compact footprint is designed to fit snug in a female ez-clip." But I can't find it in the product list.
Previous Attempt I have an Arduino Nano & loaded that old forum code and used dedicated UART0 on the EZBv4 with no results. Yes - shared ground. 6vdc to the NeoPixel 16 Ring, 3.3 vdc to the Nano...
There's no NeoPixel tutorial.
I wish the servers were faster. I bet an upgrade is due. I wish the Community SEARCH function didn't return all 113,000 posts when you put a phrase in Quotes like "Init Script". It still returns every post that contains each word in the phrase even if +"the phrase" has a plus sign in front of it, so search is pretty useless this way since the result set cannot be limited. Don't you do FULL TEXT indexing on these posts?
Thanks! Stephen
@mayaway,
Did the sketch compile on the arduino without any errors?
I may have to give that old arduino method a try. Seems like I am forever buying hardware to run my neopixel ring. Adafruit trinket to arduino micro, to now this. Wonder what the blaster will go for?
Just a side note here but I find the help links in the controls very, um, helpful. Forum search not that great but haven't had to rely on it because the in-program links.
In another thread, DJ mentioned he has been working on improving the forum search engine, but in the mean time, prefixing a google search with site:https://synthiam.com/Community/Forum/ is very effective, particularly when looking for words in combination with each other.
Alan
Thanks all! @Cochran The script did compile without error. I'm not sure I'm communicating with it properly, or at all. The scripting asks for a port. I'm using the dedicated UART0 so I gave port 0, but I think it wants to see that RxTx on pins D18/D19 so maybe I'll try that today... @DJ yes the AI did point to the answer, and it was right in front of me (but I didn't see it). It took a human to explain about the products at the bottom, the connections between the help ? and the controls and show the pics with the "circles and arrows and a paragraph about each one explainin' what each one was" @thetechguru Yep - I did resort to using the Google search engine without the site prefix and it was pretty good at finding those links! @bhouston - Thx, I'll give this one a try as well...