Thread: [Announce] Lanterne - an all-purpose flashlight app
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2013-05-31 , 07:29
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Originally Posted by hycraig View Post
[idea/request]
how about a sound detection mode that makes the led flash with music input from the mic like react to the beats, also have mic sensitivity adjustment for it, or an option to play a music track and to flash in time to the beat would be cool.
thank you for your work
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Hmm, let me take a look at the audio device stuff. I've never played with audio before myself, I'm not entirely sure how you pull beat information out of an audio stream. (Just look for raw volume spikes or something?) I'll do some investigating.
If you need to look only at volume spikes, then install VUmeter and configure it to execute certain commands when volume spikes - and code your LED application to be executable from outside. Then, instead of repeating work done in VUmeter, you will make your application integratable with others.
Otherwise, small Lanterne will become a large and bloated software. Not good, in my humble opinion.
A question: can you add second column of buttons - or an easy switch between white LEDs and red LED - with the same functionality for red LED? I know that it is not as bright, but that's exactly the point. First, red LED can be as fun to play with, and learn Morse code, as white LED, without damaging the eyes. Second, red light doesn't disrupt the night vision like white or green or blue does; when red light is pure enough, even photographic film is not damaged by it.
Best wishes.
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