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ahodges9 / LedFx

LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effectvice syncronized effects across your entire house!
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General Discussion #4

Open ahodges9 opened 5 years ago

ahodges9 commented 5 years ago

Just wanted to start up a thread for general discussions about the project. My main focus currently is building up the core backed to be extensible such that adding new devices and effects is easy. My second focus will be on updating the front end to support the full REAT API (essentially user friendly version of the developer tools page) which I am looking into using React.js

Is there any core functionality that people think is missing? Open to any architectural changes as well (better sooner rather than later!)

Please create new issues (tagged with enhancement) for any feature request

I also created a discord channel to make discussions easier if necessary: https://discord.gg/wJ755dY

Moonbase59 commented 5 years ago

Long "my vision" text moved here from "First impressions" …

Please keep it up! Looks like we come nearer my vision of having devices with both MQTT and E1.31/1.33 control, and a separate "audio/effects controller".

I’m still a little undecided on how it might be used in live situations, like DJ’ing in a club or live performances of bands or even on the show truck of the local radio station. Somehow I think it must be easy, and controllable by something the LJ (light jockey) knows, like his physical DMX controllers. (I’m a great fan of preparing effect "functions" and have the LJ use them via a button or even a fader, like you can do in QLC+. And experience shows that—in a more professional surrounding—DJs or LJs don’t like to play around with a zillion "mini web sites", one for each device. They usually prefer to have things set up by a pro then simply use it, mostly with physical devices like buttons, light control boards, or even devices like a KORG nanoPad2.)

So I wonder where this might be going … Either together with a nice control app (like not-matt’s), or maybe headless and being itself controllable via DMX or the like? Keeping everything modular (separating functionality and device control, using standards) is the right way, I think.

Eventually, it might just be great to arrive at something that …

Some rationale behind my ideas:

Phew! VISIONS! :-) … Just thinking out loud …

raymiec commented 5 years ago

Whilst i'm installing, seems like it's taking forever, thats a good 15mins already... random make crap on the screen.... I tried the original took nowhere near this long to install.

But yeah what i want is for this to run on the raspberry pi as a headless server.

I want to boot up the pi, connect over the network and have a basic ui to control it.

I want the option to be able to select the input device and possibly some sort of local audio loopback.

My planned usage, plug in any device into the mic in (usb sound card) . anything i play through it, the lights react. If i go into the ui, have the ability to change the input source. I.e to a separate usb mic, or the output from the device itself (local loopback thing).

Hopefully finishes installing soon and i can see what it can already do.

*EDIT

First attempt failed, Python 2.7 was set as default, updated bashrc with an alias, also had to install scipy apt-get install python3-pyaudio before the installer would run again, currently compiling.. will report back.

Moonbase59 commented 5 years ago

I’ll be developing/testing on a Linux Mint 19 laptop, but eventually it’ll end up in a Raspi next to my main HiFi stereo system, connected to it using an el cheapo USB audio adapter and driving some ESPixelSticks.

Then again … I might use it in the (radio) studio, to pep up the studio a little …

raymiec commented 5 years ago

@Moonbase59 i can confirm its running on the pi and communication with ws2812 lights hooked up to esp8266 module with ESPixelSticks firmware.

All working fine.

rocksolidsr commented 4 years ago

Was hoping someone could help me.

I'm trying to access LedFx on my local lan and I am having issues.

On the machine that is running LedFx I can only access it via localhost:8888 or 127.0.0.1:8888 but if I try the machine's IP address 192.168.2.XXX:8888 it will not connect and therefore when I try on another computer on the network it will not access it either. I tried adding python and _conda to windows firewall but that did not help.

raymiec commented 4 years ago

You need to set the IP to listen on, in the config file, set it to 0.0.0.0 it should listen on all interfaces.

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Was hoping someone could help me.

I'm trying to access LedFx on my local lan and I am having issues.

On the machine that is running LedFx I can only access it via localhost:8888 or 127.0.0.1:8888 but if I try the machine's IP address 192.168.2.XXX:8888 it will not connect and therefore when I try on another computer on the network it will not access it either. I tried adding python and _conda to windows firewall but that did not help.

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rocksolidsr commented 4 years ago

the .condarc config file located in my home directory? how is the syntax to set the IP to listen on 0.0.0.0?

raymiec commented 4 years ago

Ledfx config file!

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the .condarc config file located in my home directory? how is the syntax to set the IP to listen on 0.0.0.0?

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rocksolidsr commented 4 years ago

heh ok i need a little more help i'm in the C:\Users\username.conda\envs\ledfx directory but don't see a config file

raymiec commented 4 years ago

I can't remember off the top of my head but I'm sure the config file ends up in a folder .ledfx, been that long since i set this up now.

Just check other posts you'll find it. But yeah setting ip to 0.0.0.0 will allow it to work on all interfaces not really any other way round it.

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not-matt commented 4 years ago

For Windows it's in your user's appdata/roaming/.ledfx

Search for how to access appdata it's tucked away

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rocksolidsr commented 4 years ago

thanks got it!

Merwenus commented 4 years ago

I installed anaconda and LEdFX to a windows 10 Latitude e5470 i7, but it is very laggy maimum 3-5 FPS with 881 LEDS, is it normal with this amount of leds? Or did I miss something?

bobgodd commented 4 years ago

Hello, first let me say that I love the software, and it works great. I do have a problem however, it seems to shut itself down daily? I followed the instructions for installing on a raspberry pi 4 as shown on post #62 which seem to have worked well (though I understand the possibility that these aren't officially supported install methods) but it seems that whenever I stop using it, and come back to it the next day it's unavailable. I have to SSH in and 

source activate ledfx
ledfx --open-ui

Once I do that I'm good to go again. Is this normal behavior, or is there something I can do to improve this?

jdubz666 commented 4 years ago

Hey I was having the same issue, I think. I wanted it to restart after boot.

So I created a service

[Unit] Description=My script that requires network After=network.target

[Service] ExecStart=/home/pi/ledfx.sh User=pi Type=simple Restart=always TimeoutSec=900

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Here's the executed script

!/bin/bash

sleep 5 && ledfx --open-ui

harveyyoyo commented 3 years ago

Is there anyway to get this to work with chromecast?

ashishverma2614 commented 3 years ago

why not to make Ledfx App for mobile so i dont have to open laptop and run App again and again