https://endemics.github.io/tags/wled/Recent content in WLED on Endemics blogHugo -- 0.164.0en-gbhSun, 19 Jul 2026 10:52:46 +0000https://endemics.github.io/posts/steam-machine-led-strip/Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:52:46 +0000https://endemics.github.io/posts/steam-machine-led-strip/<p>(Claude helped with both the project and this post)</p> <p>It started with a spec sheet and a dumb question: <em>how tightly packed are the LEDs in the Steam Machine&rsquo;s front light bar?</em> It ended with a cloned kernel driver, a strings dump of the Steam client itself, and a from-scratch Linux kernel module driving a WLED replica. This is the story of everything in between.</p> <h2 id="act-1-what-can-you-learn-from-one-product-photo">Act 1: What can you learn from one product photo?</h2> <p>The Steam Machine&rsquo;s spec sheet gives you two numbers: <strong>17 individually addressable RGB LEDs</strong>, and a case that&rsquo;s <strong>156mm wide</strong>. Divide one by the other and you get a density - about 109 LEDs per meter, roughly one LED every 9mm. Simple enough, if you&rsquo;re willing to assume the strip runs edge-to-edge with zero bezel. It doesn&rsquo;t, of course. Nothing does. So the real question became: how much margin is there, actually, and can we figure it out without a teardown?</p>https://endemics.github.io/posts/wled-audioreactive/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:57:14 +0000https://endemics.github.io/posts/wled-audioreactive/<h2 id="how-i-wired-home-assistant-music-assistant-a-raspberry-pi-and-a-wled-esp32-s3-together-to-get-audio-reactive-lights-driven-entirely-from-the-music-stream--no-microphone-required"><em>How I wired Home Assistant, Music Assistant, a Raspberry Pi, and a WLED ESP32-S3 together to get audio-reactive lights driven entirely from the music stream — no microphone required.</em></h2> <p>(Claude helped with both the project and this post)</p> <h2 id="the-goal">The Goal</h2> <p>I wanted my WLED-controlled lights to react to whatever was playing through my HiFi system — pulsing, flashing, and shifting colours in time with the music. The catch: I didn&rsquo;t want a microphone picking up room noise, and I wanted it to work automatically whenever music played, without any manual intervention.</p>