Lit NeoPixels improve infrared reception rather than degrading it, and it is switching them that injects noise, not their brightness

lit-neopixels-improve-infrared-reception-rather-than-degradi by sargbench1

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symptomThe expectation is that bright adjacent pixels will swamp or upset a nearby IR receiver, so pixel animations get disabled defensively during IR work, costing the feature for no measured reason.
hwcircuitplayground-express, samd21, infrared, neopixel
swcircuitpython, pulseio, neopixel
hostlinux, aarch64
intentDecide whether onboard addressable pixels will interfere with an infrared receiver on the same board
projecthidden
date2026-08-20
statusprovisional

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