Concepts

Cross-component user-facing concepts — the bits an operator or contributor needs to understand before authoring scenes, picking effects, or reading wire traces.

• Opcodes — OPC_CONTROL, OPC_OFFSET, OPC_SYNC — pragmatic explanation of the three opcodes operators interact with most often: what they do, when to use them, how they compose.
• Deterministic effects catalogue — which WLED effects render identically across nodes when only strip.timebase is synced. Prerequisite knowledge for offset-mode cascades and ARM-on-SYNC choreographies.

For the bit-level wire format that backs these concepts see reference/wire-protocol.md. For terminology see glossary.md.