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scottlawsonbc / audio-reactive-led-strip

:musical_note: :rainbow: Real-time LED strip music visualization using Python and the ESP8266 or Raspberry Pi
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Trying to understand FPS (rpi4) #307

Open akameswaran opened 3 years ago

akameswaran commented 3 years ago

I have gotten the project working and I'm tweaking around with it.

However, FPS seems to be between 43 and 46 no matter what I do. My target rate is 60FPS. I am NOT running the graphic visualization, my PI is headless.

CPU never goes above 15-16% I've played with the settings and I get the same FPS if its 10 pixels or 300 (I have at most 300 to connect) I have played with the FFT Bins, but setting it to 12 or 48 or even 300 (the comments indicate anything higher is dumb) makes almost 0 difference in observed CPU load, and no difference in frame rate. I'm at a loss as to why it's running at the rate it is. Any advice is appreciated.

krjan02 commented 3 years ago

having the same issue, also only 17% cpu usage. 120 Pixels

joeybab3 commented 3 years ago

I don't have a pi so I can't reproduce the issue but if anyone else reading this, later on, is willing to do some testing to see if they can reproduce I'd appreciate it.

Rajathbharadwaj commented 3 years ago

Try changing the target fps on the config file to the max fps supported. If you set your max fps to 60, it'll be less than that.