Easier way to do it!

[rec]

Since I was here:

https://github.com/estiens/bibliopixel_projects/blob/9a2665d2e93dcf0d849865c9714d55883513570e/api/animations/base_remote_strip.py#L3-7

This could just be:

class BaseRemoteStrip(BaseStripAnim):
    color_control = 0
    brightness_control = 100

Exactly the same effect, shorter, and it fixes the bug you have in your version, where you forgot to pass **args into the parent constructor.

:-)

Also, I suggest you not use protected (single _) variables at all! There's no compelling use case for them. They're all visible to children, so you have to preserve them as part of the API, so might as well make them public.

Private variables starting with __ are in fact hidden (mostly) but really, why bother?

The issue is "bondage vs discipline" :-D

Python is a more discipline-oriented language - let people change these variables if they like, particularly since they get to see your source code.

Particularly, you are actually changing these variables from other classes, so they aren't "protected" at all, now are they?