Hi all.
I am trying to create a something where I have multiple led strips reacting to a lightning sound. The sound will be played on a DFRobot DPlayerMini. The LED strips will be placed at places around a small room.
I think this would look best if the I could control when each led strip were able to react to the lightning sound. Ie at the start of the sound the led strips on one side of the room reacted. Then towards the sounds end the leds strips on the other side reacted.
Is it possible to mute some of the led strips for a particular period of time.
Also, as a side note. I was going to use a sound detector to capture the sound. But would much prefer to take the sound directly from the DFRobot DPlayerMini via the AO pin ( RX and TX pins are tied up ). What are the practicalities of this.
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LED strips are not activated by sound. Your trigger is sound, so you will need to evaluate sound levels to activate the LEDs you want. If you are able to "take the sound directly from the DFRobot DFPlayerMini," (above my level to read raw data to find the peaks) then there is no sound activation... and there is no A0 on the DFPlayerMini. I think what you want is; while a sound file is playing, a sound sensor registers sound levels, and as particular sound levels are reached, LEDs are illuminated... but words might be confusing, so it is best to draw your idea on paper and post that drawing here.
Are these to be connected by wires or a wireless system? Wireless is the most convenient but the most difficult to do.
Not sure what you mean here. The concept of an addressable LED strip is that "IF" it is one strip you put what you want in that strip and then show it. So if you do not want a section of the LEDs to change, just write them the same data that you had before in the parts you want to mute.
If you have more than one strip then simply address the strip you want to use and not the other you want to mute.
