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Using my PC for the Sound
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.
Introduction
Installing and Compiling
First Time Setup
Running Sound Reactive WLED
2D Support
Sound Settings
2D LED Preferences
ARTI-FX
UDP Sound Sync
Sound Reactive Animations
Non-Reactive Animations
Digital Microphone Hookup
Analog Audio Input Options
Using my PC for the Sound
News
It's Not Working
Noise and Spikes
Connectivity Issues
WLED Programming Notes
Modifying Sound Reactive WLED
Future Directions
Adding a new Settings Page
On Lossy Colours
Sliders in WLED
Testing