Configuration
Here are the key configuration settings for the left shoe (which will be the "boss" shoe that sends sync info to the right shoe):
LED Preferences:
- Enable automatic brightness limiter: ON
- Maximum PSU Current: 1000 mA
- LED outputs: WS281x
- Color Order: BGR
- Length: 20
- Data GPIO: 33
Once you have changed these settings click Save.
Sync Interfaces
- Sync groups Send: 1
- Send Enable Sync on start: ON
- Send notifications on direct change: ON
Click Save when you are done and then reboot the Mini Sparkle Motion to enable the sync changes.
Usermod Setup
- AudioReactive Enabled: ON
- Digital mic:
- Type: SPH0654
- Pin I2S SD: 9
- Pin I2S WS: 10
- Pin I2S SCK: 23
- Pin I2S MCLK: unused
- Config:
- AGC: Vivid
Right Shoe Sync
The right shoe will use identical settings to the left shoe, except for the Sync setup:
- Sync groups Receive: 1
- Receive:
- Brightness: ON
- Color: ON
- Effects: ON
- Palette: ON
- Segment options: ON
- bounds: ON
Save and reboot the board once these are set.
Now, with Sync turned on for both boards any changes made on the left shoe will be sent to the right shoe.
Before you get the shoes talking to each other, you'll want to set up some presets and perhaps an animation playlist.Â
Presets refer to a particular combination of animation, color palette, and speed/intensity/brightness settings. Making the presets is a lot of fun - you get to play around in WLED and find settings that suit your style.
Playlists are a scripted list of Presets that will play in a specific order (or shuffle) for a specified amount of time. WLED gives you a lot of control. You can also set your playlist as the default setting when WLED boots up, so you can just turn them on and go.
Play with the effects and colors until you have the lights in a mode you want to save. Click over to the "presets" tab and click "+ Preset". Give it a name and save it to your list.
Once you've saved a few presets, you can string them together into a playlist. The playlist options include the ability to set your duration (how long each preset plays) and the transition time.
Take note of the number assigned to your playlist. In the next step you'll set up WLED to default to this playlist on startup.
Head to Config --> LED Preferences and scroll down until you find the Defaults section. Here you have an option for "Apply preset 0 at boot". Enter the number of your playlist here and click "save". Now when you boot up WLED your playlist will load first automatically.
You can also control the default brightness here. If you're finding your battery life to be too short, turning the brightness down will help.
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