Add per-bus white-LED color temperature for accurate auto-white

[NerdyGriffin]

What this does

Adds an opt-in, per-bus "white LED color temperature" setting that makes the
auto-white calculation account for the actual color of a strip's W LED.

Why

WLED's "Accurate" auto-white mode subtracts the white channel value equally
from R, G and B. That implicitly assumes the physical W LED emits neutral
white — RGB(255,255,255), i.e. the sRGB white point near D65 / ~6500 K. Real "RGBW"
strips often use 3000 K warm-white or 4000-5000 K "natural-white" or 5000 K+ cool-white LEDs, so the equal
subtraction shifts the resulting color visibly. This lets the calculation use
the W LED's true per-channel contribution instead.

How it works

• New per-bus checkbox + Kelvin input below "Auto-calculate W channel from
  RGB" (shown for Accurate mode). Disabled by default.
• When enabled, the configured Kelvin is converted once (via the existing
  colorKtoRGB()) to the W LED's RGB equivalent and cached on the bus.
• In autoWhiteCalc, instead of w = min(r,g,b) and an equal subtract, it
  picks the largest W whose per-channel RGB contribution won't overflow any
  channel, then (ACCURATE mode) subtracts that correct per-channel amount.
  Floor division composes back through the subtract so it can't underflow;
  per-channel zero guards handle channels that are 0 (blue is 0 at/below
  1900 K).
• Opt-in via the checkbox: when off (default, wk = 0) autoWhiteCalc takes
  a fast path that is identical to current behavior, so existing configs
  render unchanged and there's no added per-pixel cost.
• Persisted per-bus as wk in the LED config; range 1000–10000 K.

Testing

• Built esp32dev; flashed via OTA to a QuinLED Dig-Uno (ESP32 + RGBW).
• Verified: UI show/hide across all AW modes; value persists across a full
  power-cycle; Accurate-mode saturation with smooth color transitions and no
  regressions; low end down to the 1000 K floor with no underflow artifacts.

Notes / limitations

• colorKtoRGB() is a blackbody-curve approximation; real phosphor LEDs
  differ from a true blackbody, so the temperature is a user-tunable value
  rather than a fixed per-LED-type table. (In my own testing a 3000 K-rated
  strip looked when set to 2700 K or 2500 K instead.)
• Happy to take maintainer guidance on the per-channel-cap approach in the
  hot path.

AI assistance

This change was developed with AI assistance (Claude). AI-generated sections
are marked with // AI: comments per the contribution guidelines. All code
and this description were reviewed and proof-read by @NerdyGriffin, who takes
responsibility for the contribution.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added per-bus white-channel color temperature control from 1000–10000 K, with 0 preserving legacy neutral behavior.
  • Added controls to enable and configure W-channel Kelvin correction; enabling defaults to 6500 K.

• Improvements

  • Kelvin settings are validated, saved, restored, and applied per bus.
  • Improved auto-white calculations with faster legacy handling and more accurate, safer W extraction for configured color temperatures.

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Walkthrough

Adds per-bus white-channel Kelvin configuration. Bus caches Kelvin-derived RGB coefficients and reciprocals for auto-white calculation. The value is validated, persisted in JSON, exposed through the settings API, and controlled through the settings page.

Changes

Per-Bus White Kelvin Feature

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bus Kelvin API and data structure wled00/bus_manager.h	Adds Kelvin configuration and cached calculation fields to Bus and BusConfig, plus public accessors and the colorKtoRGB prototype.
Kelvin caching and auto-white calculation wled00/bus_manager.cpp	Caches Kelvin-derived RGB values and reciprocals. autoWhiteCalc() uses either the neutral darkest-channel path or the per-channel capped subtraction path. BusManager::add() applies configured Kelvin values.
Configuration JSON round-trip wled00/cfg.cpp	Reads, validates, constructs, and serializes each bus’s "wk" value.
Settings parsing and form API wled00/set.cpp, wled00/xml.cpp	Validates WK request values, passes them into bus configuration, and emits the per-bus WK form fields.
Settings page Kelvin controls wled00/data/settings_leds.htm	Adds Kelvin enablement helpers, conditional controls, input markup, configuration loading, and UI refresh behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsPage
  participant SettingsAPI
  participant BusManager
  participant Bus
  SettingsPage->>SettingsAPI: submit WK value
  SettingsAPI->>SettingsAPI: validate 1000–10000 K
  SettingsAPI->>BusManager: construct BusConfig with whiteKelvin
  BusManager->>Bus: setWhiteKelvin(k)
  Bus->>Bus: cache Kelvin-derived RGB and reciprocal limits
  Bus->>Bus: autoWhiteCalc uses cached coefficients

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Suggested reviewers: softhack007, dedehai

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7f234

Some bus types can receive unpredictable Kelvin setup, and the settings UI can misleadingly expose or import Kelvin correction. These defects should be resolved before merge.

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[NerdyGriffin]

I plan to submit a PR to WLED-Docs if/when this gets reviewed. Just holding off in case there are any requested changes.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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wled00/bus_manager.cpp (1)

101-115: ⚡ Quick win

Add attribution for the AI-generated blocks.

These sections are marked as AI-generated, but the required source/inspiration attribution is still missing.

As per coding guidelines "Document attribution of inspiration / knowledge / sources used in AI-generated code, e.g. link to GitHub repositories or other websites".

Also applies to: 139-158

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents

Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@wled00/bus_manager.cpp` around lines 101 - 115, The AI-generated blocks
(including the setWhiteKelvin function and the other block at the section
covering lines 139-158) need an attribution comment added immediately above each
AI-marked region: include a brief "Generated with assistance from [AI tool]"
line plus links or identifiers for any external sources or repositories used to
inspire the implementation (e.g., the AI model name and any GitHub/URL
references), and summarize what was taken from the source (e.g., colorKtoRGB
usage/logic). Update the comments around the unique symbols Bus::setWhiteKelvin
and the other AI-labeled block to contain that attribution text so reviewers can
trace provenance.

wled00/data/settings_leds.htm (1)

824-830: 💤 Low value

Use the standard AI block markers for consistency.

The other two new AI blocks in this file (Lines 208/223 and 388/408) use // AI: below section was generated by an AI … // AI: end. This loadCfg block uses a single inline // AI: instead, deviating from the convention.

♻️ Align with the AI marker convention

-							{ // AI: derive WKE checkbox + WK seed from stored wk (0 = feature off)
+							// AI: below section was generated by an AI
+							// derive WKE checkbox + WK seed from stored wk (0 = feature off)
+							{
 								const wkChkEl = d.getElementsByName("WKE"+i)[0];
 								const wkEl = d.getElementsByName("WK"+i)[0];
 								const wkv = parseInt(v.wk) | 0;
 								if (wkChkEl) wkChkEl.checked = wkv > 0;
 								if (wkEl) wkEl.value = wkv > 0 ? wkv : 6500;
 							}
+							// AI: end

As per coding guidelines: "Mark AI-generated source code blocks with // AI: below section was generated by an AI / // AI: end comments".

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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` around lines 824 - 830, Replace the single
inline AI comment in the loadCfg block that handles WKE/WK (the block creating
wkChkEl, wkEl and computing wkv) with the standard AI block markers: add a
starting comment "// AI: below section was generated by an AI" immediately
before the block and an ending comment "// AI: end" after it, so the block
wrapping the wkChkEl/wkEl/wkv logic matches the other AI-marked sections; keep
the existing code unchanged and follow the same spacing/comment style as the
other AI blocks.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@wled00/bus_manager.cpp`:
- Around line 105-113: The setter Bus::setWhiteKelvin allows any non-zero k
through and thus can accept out-of-range kelvin values; clamp/normalize non-zero
k to the supported 1000–10000K range before storing and using it: if k==0 keep
legacy behavior, otherwise bound k to [1000,10000], assign the normalized value
to _whiteKelvin, then call colorKtoRGB(normalizedK, rgb) and update _wR/_wG/_wB
accordingly so runtime behavior matches the shared contract.

In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm`:
- Around line 213-222: The comment says wkChk should seed WK when re-enabling
from a blank or sub-min value but parseInt("") yields NaN so the current test
misses blanks; update function wkChk to parse wk.value with an explicit radix
(parseInt(wk.value, 10)) and change the condition to treat empty or non-numeric
values as needing seeding (e.g., if (!wk.value || isNaN(parsed) || parsed <
1000) wk.value = 6500), keeping the existing checks for the WKE checkbox
(d.Sf["WKE"+n]) and the UI() call.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@wled00/bus_manager.cpp`:
- Around line 101-115: The AI-generated blocks (including the setWhiteKelvin
function and the other block at the section covering lines 139-158) need an
attribution comment added immediately above each AI-marked region: include a
brief "Generated with assistance from [AI tool]" line plus links or identifiers
for any external sources or repositories used to inspire the implementation
(e.g., the AI model name and any GitHub/URL references), and summarize what was
taken from the source (e.g., colorKtoRGB usage/logic). Update the comments
around the unique symbols Bus::setWhiteKelvin and the other AI-labeled block to
contain that attribution text so reviewers can trace provenance.

In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm`:
- Around line 824-830: Replace the single inline AI comment in the loadCfg block
that handles WKE/WK (the block creating wkChkEl, wkEl and computing wkv) with
the standard AI block markers: add a starting comment "// AI: below section was
generated by an AI" immediately before the block and an ending comment "// AI:
end" after it, so the block wrapping the wkChkEl/wkEl/wkv logic matches the
other AI-marked sections; keep the existing code unchanged and follow the same
spacing/comment style as the other AI blocks.

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[DedeHai]

Looks good in general, the hot path needs speed optimization.
Adding config values needs careful consideration: adding per bus white balance/ color correction is on my todo list. Need to think about if that collides with the approach used, the config values especially.

[NerdyGriffin]

Looks good in general, the hot path needs speed optimization. Adding config values needs careful consideration: adding per bus white balance/ color correction is on my todo list. Need to think about if that collides with the approach used, the config values especially.

Thanks for the update. I see how this would overlap with general-purpose color correction, though depending on the implementation they might not achieve the same thing. I implemented this specifically for the use-case of an RGBW strip with Auto-calculate white channel from RGB set to Accurate, where the resulting colors are very wrong for anything orange/yellow if the hardware's white channel is not 6500K. Whether or not a general color correction can replace my implementation might depend on where the color correction goes in the pipeline, before or after autoWhiteCalc().

In the meantime, I will continue daily-driving my build with this feature on my DigUno and dig2go until something like this or a compatible color correction is implemented in a future release.

[NerdyGriffin]

Pushed the hot-path optimization. The per-pixel divisions by _wR/_wG/_wB in autoWhiteCalc's enabled path are now precomputed Q15 reciprocals (multiply + shift) cached in setWhiteKelvin. The reciprocals are floor-biased, so the white cap can only come out ≤ the exact value — the underflow guarantee is preserved — and I verified the output is equivalent to the previous code across the full input space (≤1/255 delta, no unsafe over-cap).

I also checked the generated Xtensa assembly to be sure: the per-pixel path now has zero divide instructions. The /255 in the subtraction step was already strength-reduced by the compiler to a muluh + shift, so I left it alone and only replaced the runtime-variable /_wX divisions (which the compiler can't reduce). Re-tested on ESP32 (QuinLED Dig-Uno + dig2go).

Separately — relevant to your point about where general color correction should sit in the pipeline: gamma is applied before autoWhiteCalc (FX_fcn.cpp:1742 → :1743), so with gamma enabled a per-bus correction subtracts perceptual-space coefficients from already-gamma-corrected channels. I prototyped compensating for that and it didn't cleanly help in practice, so it's not actionable here — just flagging the ordering in case it's useful for the color-correction design.

— Claude (Anthropic's Claude Code; this work was reviewed and hardware-tested by @NerdyGriffin)

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wled00/data/settings_leds.htm (2)

831-835: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize imported wk values the same way the backend does.

loadCfg() treats any positive v.wk as enabled, but handleSettingsSet() later rejects non-zero values outside 1000..10000 and stores 0 instead (wled00/set.cpp, Lines 234-236). That makes config-template import show states that will silently flip off on save.

Suggested fix

 							{
 								const wkChkEl = d.getElementsByName("WKE"+i)[0];
 								const wkEl = d.getElementsByName("WK"+i)[0];
-								const wkv = parseInt(v.wk) | 0;
+								const rawWk = parseInt(v.wk, 10) | 0;
+								const wkv = (rawWk >= 1000 && rawWk <= 10000) ? rawWk : 0;
 								if (wkChkEl) wkChkEl.checked = wkv > 0;
 								if (wkEl) wkEl.value = wkv > 0 ? wkv : 6500;
 							}

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` around lines 831 - 835, Imported wk values
must be normalized the same way the backend does: parse v.wk to an integer
(fallback 0), then treat it as enabled only if it's within 1000..10000; update
the WKE checkbox (wkChkEl) to checked only when wk is in that range and set the
WK input (wkEl) to the wk value when enabled or to the UI default (6500) when
disabled so the displayed state matches what handleSettingsSet() will accept and
store.

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399-410: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Honor the global auto-white override when deciding whether WK applies.

autoWhiteCalc() uses the global AW mode first (wled00/bus_manager.cpp, Lines 129-130), but this UI gate only looks at AW<n>. If the global override is None or Max, the Kelvin controls can still appear even though runtime will ignore them.

Suggested fix

 				{
 					const awEl = d.Sf["AW"+n];
-					const awv = awEl ? parseInt(awEl.value) : 0;
+					const awv = awEl ? parseInt(awEl.value, 10) : 0;
+					const gaw = parseInt(d.Sf.AW.value, 10);
+					const effectiveAw = gaw < 255 ? gaw : awv;
 					const wkBox = gId("dig"+n+"wk");
 					// only true single-white RGBW types: a fixed W-LED color temperature is
 					// meaningless for dual-white CCT buses (variable white point) and for
 					// non-RGB buses (nothing to derive the correction from)
-					if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && (awv === 1 || awv === 2 || awv === 3)) ? "inline" : "none";
+					if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && (effectiveAw === 1 || effectiveAw === 2 || effectiveAw === 3)) ? "inline" : "none";
 					const wke = d.Sf["WKE"+n], wk = d.Sf["WK"+n], wkv = gId("dig"+n+"wkv");
 					if (wke && wk) {
 						wk.disabled = !wke.checked;
 						if (wkv) wkv.style.display = wke.checked ? "inline" : "none";
 					}
 				}

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` around lines 399 - 410, The UI currently
checks only the per-bus AW control (AW+n) when deciding to show the Kelvin
controls (wkBox) but must also honor the global auto-white override used by
autoWhiteCalc(); read the global AW control (e.g. d.Sf["AW"] or gId("AW") as
used for the global setting), get its value, and include a guard that hides
wkBox when the global mode is "None" or "Max" (match the same string/enum names
used by autoWhiteCalc()), in addition to the existing per-bus checks (awEl/awv,
hasW/hasRGB/hasCCT) so WK is hidden whenever the runtime will ignore per-bus
Kelvin settings.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@wled00/bus_manager.h`:
- Around line 235-237: The reciprocal cache fields _rwR, _rwG, and _rwB in class
Bus are added but not initialized; update the Bus constructor (the Bus::Bus
initializer list or body) to initialize _rwR, _rwG, and _rwB to 0 so they have
defined values before any call to setWhiteKelvin(), ensuring the autoWhiteCalc
hot path won't read uninitialized reciprocals.

In `@wled00/cfg.cpp`:
- Line 241: The code reads whiteK from JSON as uint16_t without validation
(uint16_t whiteK = elm[F("wk")] | 0), allowing invalid values into BusConfig;
update the ingress parsing for wk so that you accept 0 (disabled) or clamp
values into the supported range [1000,10000] before constructing BusConfig—i.e.,
parse elm[F("wk")] into a temporary integer/default 0, if value != 0 then if
value < 1000 set to 1000, if value > 10000 set to 10000, and only then assign to
whiteK (or reject non-numeric inputs by treating as 0). Ensure you apply this
change where whiteK is read/used (reference variable whiteK and the JSON key
elm[F("wk")]) so runtime state cannot contain out-of-range temps.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm`:
- Around line 831-835: Imported wk values must be normalized the same way the
backend does: parse v.wk to an integer (fallback 0), then treat it as enabled
only if it's within 1000..10000; update the WKE checkbox (wkChkEl) to checked
only when wk is in that range and set the WK input (wkEl) to the wk value when
enabled or to the UI default (6500) when disabled so the displayed state matches
what handleSettingsSet() will accept and store.
- Around line 399-410: The UI currently checks only the per-bus AW control
(AW+n) when deciding to show the Kelvin controls (wkBox) but must also honor the
global auto-white override used by autoWhiteCalc(); read the global AW control
(e.g. d.Sf["AW"] or gId("AW") as used for the global setting), get its value,
and include a guard that hides wkBox when the global mode is "None" or "Max"
(match the same string/enum names used by autoWhiteCalc()), in addition to the
existing per-bus checks (awEl/awv, hasW/hasRGB/hasCCT) so WK is hidden whenever
the runtime will ignore per-bus Kelvin settings.

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[DedeHai]

uint16_t should be accurate enough I think, no need to waste RAM
also I am not sure how the compiler packs this, it's best practice to try and align values to 4byte boundaries to avoid padding.

[NerdyGriffin]

Done in 5d4b69f. With the (_wX + 1) divisor the reciprocal ranges from 128 to 32768, so it fits uint16_t exactly with no precision loss. I'll take a pass at grouping _whiteKelvin, the three coefficients and the three reciprocals with the existing small members in a follow-up commit so they don't introduce padding.

[DedeHai]

the first condition is redundant

[NerdyGriffin]

Fixed in f010e00

[DedeHai]

I don't like the use of an enabled flag, could use 0 (or out of range) means disabled (the code in set.cpp already treats it that way)

[NerdyGriffin]

Agreed, I will change that

[NerdyGriffin]

Done in 9009641

[DedeHai]

this should be done in the UI, avoid conditionals in the hot path if possible

[NerdyGriffin]

Done in 33817dc

[DedeHai]

remove conditionals, _rwR is never zero, _rwG is also never zero and the multiplication + shift is usually faster than a branch as it lets the compiler optimize more.

[NerdyGriffin]

Last time I worked through the math, I thought there was a case where _rwR can be zero, but I also want to simply this. I will look into this some more

[NerdyGriffin]

You're right that _wR and _wG can't be zero in practice (_wG only hits 0 below the 1000 K floor), but _wB is 0 at or below 1900 K, which is what the guards were for. I've removed them a different way in 5d4b69f: the cached reciprocal is now 32768 / (_wX + 1), so the divisor can't be zero and the sentinel is gone. The cap becomes (((x + 1) << 8) - 1) * _rwX >> 15, which is the largest w whose contribution (w * (_wX + 1)) >> 8 still fits the channel. Three multiply-and-shift ops, no branches.

I verified this on the host over every color at every 50 K from 1000 to 10000 K: no underflow anywhere, and the results match the previous arithmetic within a few units except below ~2350 K, where a near-zero blue coefficient now allows slightly more W for zero-blue inputs. The old cap dropped straight to 0 there, so this also removes a hard step at 1900 K.
(Written by Claude, proofread by @NerdyGriffin)

[DedeHai]

this changes the MODE_MIN behaviour. intentional? if so why only min and not MODE_MAX?

[NerdyGriffin]

It was primarily intended for MODE_AUTO_ACCURATE and DUAL because they advertise themselves as an "accurate" translation of RGB into RGBW (and ACCURATE is the mode I use on my daily-driver WLED controllers). But it may be extended to include MODE_MAX if desired, although the RGB + whiteKelvin -> RGBW math might need to be different to match the intent of MODE_MAX.
I originally assumed MODE_MAX didn't need it because it isn't concerned about color accuracy, but I am open to corrections/suggestions.

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding what you are referring to as MODE_MIN and MODE_MAX

[NerdyGriffin]

You are correct, I was mistaken. I originally designed that under the belief that DUAL behaves as ACCURATE if w==0, when in reality the code is DUAL behaves as BRIGHTER if w==0. I will try gating this to only the RGBW_MODE_AUTO_ACCURATE path.

[NerdyGriffin]

Change applied in 011b035, but I am still undecided which approach is the right call. Let me know if you would prefer the opposite, i.e. applying the auto-white behavior to all of Accurate, Brighter, Dual, and Max, rather than apply it only to Accurate.

[DedeHai]

still uses division, why not right shift?

[NerdyGriffin]

Since it divided by a constant, the compiler already converts that to a shift at compile time. But it can just as easily be explicitly written as a right shift

[DedeHai]

the compiler will not convert it, how could it?

[NerdyGriffin]

When compiled in an Ubuntu VM, the resulting machine-level code output by the compiled did use a shift in place of the multiple/divide operation. However, when I compiled it in Windows (after the merge from main, and with a new/different install of the build deps), the resulting machine-level code output by the compiler used a multiply-by-magic-constant sequence rather than a shift, so the result is provably inconsistent. So you are correct that it should have been coded to use shift explicitly.

Switched to (w * (_wX + 1)) >> 8 in 5d4b69f, matching the (x + 1) * bri >> 8 form already used further down in this file. The cap calculation uses the same _wX + 1 scaling so the two stay consistent and the subtraction stays underflow-safe. (Assisted by Claude)

[NerdyGriffin]

Worked through the review findings — two fixed, two declined with reasoning:

Fixed (d9881b8):

• Uninitialized reciprocal cache — _rwR/_rwG/_rwB are now initialized in the Bus constructor init list alongside _wR/_wG/_wB. (Latent only, since they're read solely when _whiteKelvin != 0, which is set together with them in setWhiteKelvin() — but worth making defensive.)
• Global auto-white override — the per-bus Kelvin control now shows when either the per-bus AW mode or the global override (Bus::_gAWM) is Brighter/Accurate/Dual, with onchange="UI()" on the global select so it updates live. The per-bus AW selector stays visible under a global override, so the Kelvin sub-control now stays consistent with it instead of vanishing. (Hardware-verified the show/hide on an RGBW bus across the override modes.)

Declined (with reasoning):

• Clamp wk at config-load ingress (cfg.cpp) — colorKtoRGB() clamps its output to 0–255 for any uint16_t, and the per-channel-cap/reciprocal math is well-defined for any _wX ∈ [0,255], so an out-of-range stored wk yields a defined color rather than a fault. Consistent with keeping the range a UI convenience rather than a hard protocol contract (per the earlier thread on setWhiteKelvin). Happy to add it if you'd prefer strict symmetry with the set.cpp web-form clamp.
• Range-gate the loadCfg checkbox to [1000,10000] — the runtime enable-semantic is literally wk != 0 (_whiteKelvin == 0 in autoWhiteCalc), which the current wk > 0 check mirrors. Gating the checkbox on the range would mis-represent an active out-of-range config as disabled; and for web-saved configs (already clamped by set.cpp) the two are equivalent.

— Claude (Anthropic's Claude Code; reviewed and hardware-tested by @NerdyGriffin)

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241-253: ⚠️ Potential issue | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize wk at config JSON ingress before constructing BusConfig.

wk is accepted as raw uint16_t at Line 241 and passed through at Line 253 without enforcing the same 0 or [1000,10000] policy used in the settings form path. That creates inconsistent persisted state between /json/cfg and /settings/leds.

Suggested fix

-      uint16_t whiteK = elm[F("wk")] | 0; // physical W channel color temperature in K (0 = neutral/legacy)
+      int32_t whiteKRaw = elm[F("wk")] | 0; // physical W channel color temperature in K (0 = neutral/legacy)
+      uint16_t whiteK = 0;
+      if (whiteKRaw >= 1000 && whiteKRaw <= 10000) whiteK = (uint16_t)whiteKRaw;

As per coding guidelines, untrusted ingress points include “HTTP/JSON API request bodies and query parameters (/json/*, /win, etc.)”, so this should be validated at ingress.

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In `@wled00/cfg.cpp` around lines 241 - 253, The whiteK variable (wk from JSON) at
line 241 is read without validation and passed directly to the BusConfig
constructor at line 253, but it should enforce the same constraint policy used
in the settings form path (valid values are 0 or within the range [1000,10000]).
Add normalization logic after reading whiteK from the JSON element to enforce
this constraint before the value is used in the busConfigs.emplace_back() call,
ensuring consistency between the /json/cfg API ingress point and the
/settings/leds path.

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In `@wled00/set.cpp`:
- Around line 234-236: The casting to uint16_t on line 234 when assigning whiteK
happens before the range validation on line 236, which allows oversized input
values to wrap around and appear valid before the check can reject them. Parse
the request argument into a wider signed integer type (such as int) first,
validate that the parsed value is within the acceptable range (checking for
values less than 1000 or greater than 10000, where 0 means neutral/legacy), and
only then assign the validated result to the uint16_t whiteK variable. This
ensures the full numeric domain check occurs at the ingress point before any
narrowing conversion.

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In `@wled00/cfg.cpp`:
- Around line 241-253: The whiteK variable (wk from JSON) at line 241 is read
without validation and passed directly to the BusConfig constructor at line 253,
but it should enforce the same constraint policy used in the settings form path
(valid values are 0 or within the range [1000,10000]). Add normalization logic
after reading whiteK from the JSON element to enforce this constraint before the
value is used in the busConfigs.emplace_back() call, ensuring consistency
between the /json/cfg API ingress point and the /settings/leds path.

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32768/256 = 128. Is the special meaning of "32768/256" already documented in the code?

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Good catch, I missed that. The "32768/256" was derived from the _rwR = 32768U / (_wR + 1U); of bus_manager.cpp, but blindly substituting a "default" value of 255 for _wR. It should be simplified to the constant, with the comment explaining why it is that value

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- Line 111: Update the base Bus constructor to initialize _hasRgb, _hasWhite,
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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm`:
- Line 425: Update the Kelvin control visibility condition using the effective
auto-white mode: use the per-bus mode only when the global auto-white setting is
AW_GLOBAL_DISABLED (255), otherwise use the global mode for the Accurate check.
Preserve the existing hasW, hasRGB, and hasCCT conditions and visibility
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- Line 849: Update loadCfg() to validate the parsed v.wk Kelvin value against
the 1000–10000 range before applying signed 32-bit coercion, so overflowed
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Initialize all capability flags in the base Bus constructor.

BusPlaceholder leaves _hasRgb, _hasWhite, and _hasCCT uninitialized. BusHub75Matrix also leaves _hasCCT uninitialized. BusManager::add() calls setWhiteKelvin() after constructing either bus, and line 111 reads these indeterminate flags. Initialize all three members to false in the base constructor; derived constructors can then override them.

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Use the effective auto-white mode for Kelvin control visibility.

AW_GLOBAL_DISABLED is 255. Runtime uses AW<n> only when the global value is 255; otherwise, the global mode replaces it. A stale per-bus Accurate mode can therefore display WK<n> even though the runtime ignores it.

Use the effective mode for the Accurate check.

Proposed fix

 					const gAWel = d.Sf["AW"];
 					const gAW = gAWel ? parseInt(gAWel.value) : 255;
 					const isCap = (m) => (m === 2);
+					const effectiveAW = gAW === 255 ? awv : gAW;
 					const wkBox = gId("dig"+n+"wk");
-					if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && (isCap(awv) || isCap(gAW))) ? "inline" : "none";
+					if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && isCap(effectiveAW)) ? "inline" : "none";

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	if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && (isCap(awv) || isCap(gAW))) ? "inline" : "none";
	const gAWel = d.Sf["AW"];
	const gAW = gAWel ? parseInt(gAWel.value) : 255;
	const isCap = (m) => (m === 2);
	const effectiveAW = gAW === 255 ? awv : gAW;
	const wkBox = gId("dig"+n+"wk");
	if (wkBox) wkBox.style.display = (hasW(t) && hasRGB(t) && !hasCCT(t) && isCap(effectiveAW)) ? "inline" : "none";

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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` at line 425, Update the Kelvin control
visibility condition using the effective auto-white mode: use the per-bus mode
only when the global auto-white setting is AW_GLOBAL_DISABLED (255), otherwise
use the global mode for the Accurate check. Preserve the existing hasW, hasRGB,
and hasCCT conditions and visibility behavior.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate imported Kelvin values before signed 32-bit coercion.

loadCfg() converts v.wk with | 0 before range validation. The value 4294973796 becomes 6500, enables WK<n>, and is submitted as a valid Kelvin value. The firmware then accepts it because its 1000–10000 K validation receives 6500.

-								const raw = parseInt(v.wk, 10) | 0;
-								const wkv = (raw >= 1000 && raw <= 10000) ? raw : 0;
+								const raw = Number(v.wk);
+								const wkv = Number.isInteger(raw) && raw >= 1000 && raw <= 10000 ? raw : 0;

The firmware-side range check already matches this contract.

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In `@wled00/data/settings_leds.htm` at line 849, Update loadCfg() to validate the
parsed v.wk Kelvin value against the 1000–10000 range before applying signed
32-bit coercion, so overflowed inputs such as 4294973796 are rejected rather
than becoming valid values like 6500; preserve the existing firmware-compatible
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