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Blinkstick Audio LED Visualizer and Color Controls

Original Code References (Will Yager & Different55 burritosaur@protonmail.com):

• https://gitgud.io/diff-blinkstick/blinkpulse-visualizer/
• https://gitgud.io/diff-blinkstick/blinkflash
• http://yager.io/LEDStrip/LED.html
• https://github.com/wyager/LEDStrip

About

This app works in conjunction with https://github.com/burncycl/blinkstick-audio-led-visualizer

It gives a Web Interface to Control LED Visualizations.

Ansible Automated Installation (use this for Production mode install)

Want to provision a fleet of Raspberry Pi's with Django Blinkstick App transmitting via network? DevOps to the rescue.

• Reference: https://github.com/burncycl/ansible-blinkstick-audio-led-visualizer

make bsvapp

NOTE: If you don't want to use Ansible, and want to run in Production mode, you'll need to pilfer the blinkstickviz.service startup script from the Ansible repo.

Reference: https://github.com/burncycl/ansible-blinkstick-audio-led-visualizer/blob/master/roles/django-blinkstickviz/files/blinkstickviz.service

Install in /etc/systemd/system/blinkstickviz.service daemon-reload, enable.

Semi-Automated Installation

Prerequisites

sudo ./install.sh 

Enable Virtual Environment + Development Mode

source ./init.sh

Will start pulseaudio

Start Django in Development mode.

Starts Celery worker(s) and Django in Development mode

./boot_workers.sh
./start.sh

Starting from scratch

Bootstrapping Django for the first time.

Inside a blank repository

django-admin.py startproject bsv
cd ./bsv
python3 manage.py startapp bsvapp

Important Setting

By default, the django application is in INPUT only mode. Updates downloaded via the internet will overwrite this setting.

This setting increases stability.

Reference: https://github.com/burncycl/django-blinkstick-audio-led-visualizer/blob/master/bsv/bsv/settings.py#L138

# Input only (True = microphone only, False = Utilizes attached blinksticks). Warning: INPUT_ONLY = False could affect stability on Raspberry Pi devices.
INPUT_ONLY = True

TODO

There is redundant networking code in the color_programs and visualizer. I need to break this out into its' own class, and then refactor the aforementioned modules.