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Aux can't be set to anything but high or low, so advanced colour mixing can't be done, if that's what you mean.
It is possible in theory to use some colours on low and some on high at the same time, but the brightness difference would make the low invisible.
Also, it can't be done with PWM because the MCU wouldn't be able to sleep when the light was off/locked, and there aren't enough free PWM counters IIRC anyway.
Maybe if there was a smarter RGB LED, that could have 3 values set via serial and it has a chip on it to do the processing and adjust its outputs, but such a device would be too large to fit where the current aux LEDs go on any light.
There are 1515 neopixels iirc. It would fit. I just dont know if the mcus supported by anduril are fast enough.
I don't really know much about neopixels, what do they need in terms of control, does it have to be a constant signal or can they just stay in a mode until another mode is set? How many MCU pins do they need?
They need one pin for all neopixels. You can daisy chain them. You have to start sending the colours in order from last to first neopixel. Only problem is that it needs to be precise but idk how precise.