Audio Reactive LED Strip
Overview
This project realizes a realtime music visualization LED strip.
The only hardware needed is an ESP32 board, a microphone, and a controllable LED strip.
The programs running on ESP32 is compiled in Arduino IDE. Besides, ESPHome platform is also supported.
Hardware
HARDWARE | RECOMMEND |
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an ESP32 Board | Nodemcu-32s |
a PDM Microphone | HaChina's Microphone Shield |
a Controllable LED Strip | APA102/WS2812/... |
You can find all supported LED Strip in FastLED Libary.
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How do they connect together?
If you use an I2S microphone, you should modify the program(I2s is supported by ESP32-IDF)
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What's HaChina's Microphone Shield?
- It contains a PDM Microphone, a Touch Button, post connectors(making connection to LED strip easily).
- It can be plugged into NodeMCU-32S directly.
- It can also act as a remote microphone for voice_assistant.
Touch Button is connected to GPIO32
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Where can I buy HaChina's Microphone Shield?
You can buy it on taobao.
Or if you are not in mainland China, you can email your needs information to [email protected].
Arduino IDE
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Install ESP32 Board
Add ESP32's package url in
Additional Boards Manager URLs
of the menuPreferences
:https://dl.espressif.com/dl/package_esp32_index.json
Open
Boards manager...
in menuTools
. SearchESP32
, then install it. -
Install Fastled library in Arduino
Search and install
FastLED
in menuSketch
/Include Library
/Manage Libraries...
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Clone the project
git clone https://github.com/zhujisheng/audio-reactive-led-strip
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Compile&Upload
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Open
audio-reactive-led-strip.ino
in Arduino -
Connect to ESP32 by the USB
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Select the correct
Board
andPort
in the menuTools
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Upload
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Modify
N_PIXELS
in fileaudio-reactive-led-strip.ino
, if the number of LEDs on strip is not60
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Modify
FastLED.addLeds<...>(...)
in fileaudio-reactive-led-strip.ino
, if LED strip has a clock pin(e.g. APA102).
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Run on ESPHome Platform
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Copy Source Code to ESPHome's Config Directory
git clone https://github.com/zhujisheng/audio-reactive-led-strip cp -r audio-reactive-led-strip/includes/ ~/esphome_config/ cp audio-reactive-led-strip/music_leds_esphome.h ~/esphome_config/
If you run on ESPHome Add-on, the ESPHome's config directory is
/config/esphome/
(/config/
is the HomeAssistant Core's config directory.) -
Config ESPHome Yaml
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Generate the basic configuration yaml in ESPHome by wizard.
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Add
includes
in domainesphome
esphome: name: ...... platform: ESP32 board: ...... includes: - music_leds_esphome.h - includes/FFT.h - includes/ExpFilter.h - includes/VisualEffect.h - includes/gaussian_filter1d.h ......
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Config the fastled light, and add some effects you like (as example below)
light: - platform: fastled_clockless # - platform: fastled_spi id: LedsStrip chipset: NEOPIXEL #chipset: APA102 pin: GPIO21 #data_pin: GPIO21 #clock_pin: GPIO17 num_leds: 60 #rgb_order: BGR name: "MUSIC LEDS" effects: - addressable_rainbow: - addressable_lambda: name: Scroll with Music update_interval: 0s lambda: |- music_leds.ShowFrame(MODE_SCROLL, &it); - addressable_lambda: name: Energy with Music update_interval: 0s lambda: |- music_leds.ShowFrame(MODE_ENERGY, &it); - addressable_lambda: name: Spectrum with Music update_interval: 0s lambda: |- music_leds.ShowFrame(MODE_SPECTRUM, &it);
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Compile and upload the firmware.
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Config the esphome in HomeAssistant
Modify
num_leds
in configuration YAML, andN_PIXELS
inmusic_leds_esphome.h
both, if the number of LEDS is not60
. -
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Config TouchPad
If a TouchPad is connected to ESP32( which is already included in the HaChina's Microphone Shield ), you can config it to control the LED Strip.
esp32_touch: # setup_mode: True binary_sensor: - platform: esp32_touch name: "Touch Pad on ESP32" pin: GPIO32 threshold: 1000 on_press: then: - light.toggle: LedsStrip
Thanks
https://github.com/scottlawsonbc/audio-reactive-led-strip
Zack-Xu, designer of the microphone shield PCB.