Hi there! I currently use photon 2 for my churches youth room. I am looking to add to my rig by adding some ws2812b individually addressable LED strip lights. Unfortunately these lights do not have any ordinary way to link with photon 2. I bought a SP107E music controller that connects to the strip and allows me to control the lights from my phone with an app called LED Chord. I am wondering if there is a way to link LED chord to Photon 2 somehow so I can have all my lights in one app. Any and all input/advice is appreciated. Thank you!
Hi!
Good to see other churches using photon 
You could go a different route and add the led tape as dmx. Tell me if ur interested. Than ill google the product i bought.
yes please I would appreciate that!
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I know little about Photon, but since it’s two years later and knee deep in Google researching this controller and know about the rules of addressible lights, I just signed up to help answer one of the questions for you and for future researchers.
The SP107E uses an GigaDevice GD32E230C8T6 ARM SOC (System on Chip). WLED, which I AM quite familiar with, supports only SOC’s made by Espressif: The aging esp8285/esp8266 which is literally stuffed to the last remaining bytes to keep it building and running, and most members of the ESP32 family. Espressif’s legacy chips use Xtensa cores and the newer ones have RISC/V, but neither of these run software for the ARM families, such as the Gigadevices part in these.
That might be a lot of mumbo jumbo (I was honest up front that I’m answering this question for Google Search and other future readers) but the TL;DR is “no, the SP107E will not run WLED”.
Go one model up the SP108E, has the Espressif 8285 inside and one of several new models that can, with some minor internal mods, be coerced into running WLED. There are even several controllers made by this same company that are even listed in the WLED instructions at kno.wled.ge/basics/compatible-controllers/ as compatible. Of that list, the 530e is my favorite. The C3 is the newer chip family.
Alternately, it’s increasingly common for companies like GLEDOPTO to ship controllers with WLED preloaded as the official software that they use. They also have.a confusing model numbering scheme that’s designed to confuse people. They have models with built-in microphones and thus support the “audio reactive” features as well as ones that have internal USB jacks that you can use to re-flash WLED if an in-place update goes wrong or you need to a computer for debugging and that have extra GPIO pins available if you need to attach extra I/O devices to WLED, wither a few more pins for additional (unbuffered) output lines, attaching external synchronizations, sensors, or whatever.
So there are now many options in that approximate price range that support WLED, but the SP107E is not one of them.
Sorry and Good Luck!