audio-reactive-led-strip/python/config.py
Scott Lawson 0e73fd1348 Improved GUI, fixed bugs, better visualizations
* Resolved an issue with the ESP8266 where gamma correction would be
performed twice. Changed GAMMA_CORRECTION to SOFTWARE_GAMMA_CORRECTION
to make a distinction between software and firmware gamma correction.
The ESP8266 does firmware gamma correction and dithering, while the
Raspberry Pi uses slightly more inferior software gamma correction.
Changed the software gamma table to match the gamma table used in the
ESP8266 firmware.

* Improved the spectrum visualization by using one of the color channels
to visualize the absolute value of the temporal derivative of the
spectrum. Also added a feature to reject the "common mode" spectral
components, which is analogous to the spectral DC component.

* Signficantly improved the GUI and added a frequency adjustment slider.
Adjusting the frequency range has a big impact on the visualization
output. Recommend using a high frequency range (something like 4 kHz -
10 kHz) when running the scrol visualization.
2017-01-04 22:12:12 -08:00

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"""Settings for audio reactive LED strip"""
from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import division
import os
DEVICE = 'esp8266'
"""Device used to control LED strip. Must be 'pi' or 'esp8266'"""
if DEVICE == 'esp8266':
UDP_IP = '192.168.137.150'
"""IP address of the ESP8266. Must match IP in ws2812_controller.ino"""
UDP_PORT = 7777
"""Port number used for socket communication between Python and ESP8266"""
SOFTWARE_GAMMA_CORRECTION = False
"""Set to False because the firmware handles gamma correction + dither"""
if DEVICE == 'pi':
LED_PIN = 18
"""GPIO pin connected to the LED strip pixels (must support PWM)"""
LED_FREQ_HZ = 800000
"""LED signal frequency in Hz (usually 800kHz)"""
LED_DMA = 5
"""DMA channel used for generating PWM signal (try 5)"""
BRIGHTNESS = 255
"""Brightness of LED strip between 0 and 255"""
LED_INVERT = True
"""Set True if using an inverting logic level converter"""
SOFTWARE_GAMMA_CORRECTION = True
"""Set to True because Raspberry Pi doesn't use hardware dithering"""
USE_GUI = True
"""Whether or not to display a PyQtGraph GUI plot of visualization"""
DISPLAY_FPS = True
"""Whether to display the FPS when running (can reduce performance)"""
N_PIXELS = 60
"""Number of pixels in the LED strip (must match ESP8266 firmware)"""
GAMMA_TABLE_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'gamma_table.npy')
"""Location of the gamma correction table"""
MIC_RATE = 44100
"""Sampling frequency of the microphone in Hz"""
FPS = 60
"""Desired refresh rate of the visualization (frames per second)
FPS indicates the desired refresh rate, or frames-per-second, of the audio
visualization. The actual refresh rate may be lower if the computer cannot keep
up with desired FPS value.
Higher framerates improve "responsiveness" and reduce the latency of the
visualization but are more computationally expensive.
Low framerates are less computationally expensive, but the visualization may
appear "sluggish" or out of sync with the audio being played if it is too low.
The FPS should not exceed the maximum refresh rate of the LED strip, which
depends on how long the LED strip is.
"""
_max_led_FPS = int(((N_PIXELS * 30e-6) + 50e-6)**-1.0)
assert FPS <= _max_led_FPS, 'FPS must be <= {}'.format(_max_led_FPS)
MIN_FREQUENCY = 200
"""Frequencies below this value will be removed during audio processing"""
MAX_FREQUENCY = 12000
"""Frequencies above this value will be removed during audio processing"""
N_FFT_BINS = 24
"""Number of frequency bins to use when transforming audio to frequency domain
Fast Fourier transforms are used to transform time-domain audio data to the
frequency domain. The frequencies present in the audio signal are assigned
to their respective frequency bins. This value indicates the number of
frequency bins to use.
A small number of bins reduces the frequency resolution of the visualization
but improves amplitude resolution. The opposite is true when using a large
number of bins. More bins is not always better!
There is no point using more bins than there are pixels on the LED strip.
"""
N_ROLLING_HISTORY = 2
"""Number of past audio frames to include in the rolling window"""
MIN_VOLUME_THRESHOLD = 1e-7
"""No music visualization displayed if recorded audio volume below threshold"""