LightsShow Pi has been written to be highly configurable to handle various hardware configurations, as well as to control the experience of your light-show based upon your own preferences. The latest configuration settings, along with their default values are described in the file config/defaults.cfg.
Overriding Configuration Defaults
As described in config/defaults.cfg you can override any settings by creating a file in config/overrides.cfg that contains any settings you wish to override. This method is preferred to directly editing the default configuration file such that your changes will not be over-written if and when you update to a new version of LightShow Pi.
Lambetb,
I am having trouble getting the playlist to work . I am very new to Linux and I think I am lost in the little details . I can pull up the sample playlist and look at the list, but I don’t know what command to use to get the play list to play on a continuous loop . Can anyone give me a basic step by step process.
bin/start_music_and_lights
This command will play your playlist in a continuous loop. Hope this helps – if not, please visit the community forum for more timely help: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101789596301454731630
Hi Todd
First of all would like to say thanks for a great peice of software. Its all up and running but im using panpipe music but some of them dont react with the relays and others are perfect. Ive been told i can change each individual mp3 – cfg file?. But when i do the custom frequencies reset to nothing again. Its a file that says dont alter but thats the one ive been told to change.
Can you help , if so what excactly do i do to configure each song correctly.
Many thanks
Andy
Glad you found help!
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111861554681253447015/posts/WKqRD6wkNMy?sfc=true
I need to know how to configure the Arduino and a WS2812 LED strip which works as a Neopixel strip.
As my LED strip has only a data pin I used ICSP header without modifying the global.h file. I connected the RST pin to A0 on the arduino and strip data pin to 4 (MOSI).
I don’t know how to upload the sketch to Arduino using CLI (SSH).
Hi Sanjay. I’ve no expertise with Arduino – this project is based on the Raspberry Pi. Good luck with your project!
How do I configure and use a WS2812 strip with Lightshowpi
I’ve tried overriding the defaults.cfg by:
$ cp defaults.cfg overrides.cfg
$ vi overrides.cfg
— then I ensure to have only one custom_channel_mapping = 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4
$ sudo python py/hardware_controller.py –state=flash
Press -C to stop
custom channel mapping is being used
multiple channels may display that the same time
channel 1 : gpio pin number 0
channel 8 : gpio pin number 7
channel 2 : gpio pin number 1
channel 7 : gpio pin number 6
channel 3 : gpio pin number 2
channel 6 : gpio pin number 5
channel 4 : gpio pin number 3
channel 5 : gpio pin number 4
channel 1 : gpio pin number 0
channel 8 : gpio pin number 7
channel 2 : gpio pin number 1
channel 7 : gpio pin number 6
channel 3 : gpio pin number 2
channel 6 : gpio pin number 5
channel 4 : gpio pin number 3
channel 5 : gpio pin number 4
channel 1 : gpio pin number 0
channel 8 : gpio pin number 7
any ideas? It seems as though my configuration file wont update to reflect my changes? Any file cached somewhere?
Hi Chad – I’d try posting for help on our community forum:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/101789596301454731630
Good luck!
Good afternoon everyone. First, let me apologize by saying I am very new to Linux and I think I am lost in the little details.
I am having trouble getting the playlist to work. I have created a new playlist, but when I run the “bin/start_music_and_lights” command, it plays the 2 sample songs in the sample folder.
I do not know how to change where that command looks for the playlist or even how to pull up the sample playlist and look at it. I don’t know what command to use to get the code to play my new playlist I have created.
Can anyone give me a basic step by step process.
Have you followed the steps here:
http://52.89.57.254/play-music/
For more detailed help please visit our community forum:
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