pixelblaze-client 1.1.7

Library for Pixelblaze addressable LED controller.

pixelblaze-client

A Python library that presents a simple, synchronous interface for communicating with and controlling one or more Pixelblaze LED controllers.

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or newer
• websocket-client (installable via pip install websocket-client, or from https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client)
• requests (installable via pip install requests, or from https://github.com/psf/requests)
• pytz (installable via pip install pytz, or from https://github.com/stub42/pytz)
• mini-racer (installable via pip install mini-racer

Installation

Install pixelblaze-client with all required packages using pip:

pip install pixelblaze-client

Or, if you prefer, drop a copy of pixelblaze.py into your project directory and reference it within your project:

from pixelblaze import *

Documentation

API and other documention is available in Markdown and HTML.

Sample code illustrating usage is provided in the examples directory.

Please note that version 1.0.0 was a major refactoring and enhancement of the library, with many new features and significant changes. The API surface is completely new. See the the API documentation for details.

Current Version [v1.1.7] - 2025-12-3

Fixed

• Added retry for WebSocketBadStatusException
• Fix savePattern() functionality and API (add missing PBP feature)
• Various utf-8 / encoding bugs
• PBP putFile path
• Add an integration-ish test!

Added

• Created handy pb cli
• Implement waitForAnyResponse (non-chatty) for WS send
• Cache mini-racer compile eval for speed
• Add and use PBP.fromComponents()

Older Versions

See CHANGELOG.md for complete version history.

Known Issues

• Check our github repo; if you find something, let us know!