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Using my PC for the Sound

Andrew Tuline edited this page Feb 10, 2024 · 11 revisions

Q. Is it possible to use my PC for the sound and without using the microphone, or any ADC pins on the board.

The sound reactive fork of WLED was designed as an all-in-one unit that doesn't require the intervention of a PC. You can setup a display and have it run completely independently. It supports your PC's analog line-out signal, several analog microphones, an INMP441 digital microphone, as well as UDP sound sync:

https://github.com/atuline/WLED/wiki/UDP-Sound-Sync

To answer this question, not directly, except for the line-out signal. Although we support UDP sound sync, someone would have to write a program for their OS of choice to capture the sound from the PC, perform FFT calculations, and UDP transmit the sampled data (the packet matching our sound reactive WLED data structure). That's a non-trivial course of action.

All that being said, LedFx (as found at https://github.com/LedFx/LedFx) may be just the solution for this use case. Since WLED supports UDP, DDP, and E1.31 DMX protocols, you can use the sound reactive LedFx running on your PC to control a WLED device. There's an excellent video on setting this environment up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSfQdfX4fE

LedFx will then directly control the LED's on your WLED device, although you can still revert to native WLED animations.

Another option is a SoundReactive WLED audio streamer for windows SR-WLED-audio-server-win from /u/victoare on Reddit. According to the author:

"Feed windows audio output (in a processed form) to sound reactive wled instances without huge and complicated apps."

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