🎉 New LedFx Binaries Available!
| Variant | Description | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Core | Browser-based server | Headless setups, remote access, Raspberry Pi |
| CC | Desktop app (Core + UI) | Desktop users, integrated experience |
| Client | Frontend only (needs Core) | deprecated - use CC instead |
⭐ CC Features (Core + Client + extra love):
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🖥️ Integrated Experience
- Everything in one window - no browser juggling, just open the app and go
⚙️ System Integration
- System tray - minimize to tray, quick access menu with shortcuts
- Multi-instance - manage multiple LedFx servers from one interface
🎵 macOS Audio Helpers
- Custom BlackHole installer - one-click audio driver setup, no Terminal needed
- Device toggle - enable/disable audio devices without Audio MIDI Setup
- Volume control - adjust output volume directly in LedFx settings
- Auto-configuration - handles audio routing automatically
🔒 Local SSL Made Easy
- One-click HTTPS - self-signed cert generation and installation
- ledfx.local domain - auto-edits hosts file for clean URLs
- Secure local networking - HTTPS for accessing from other devices
- Cross-platform - works on Windows, macOS, and Linux
🎼 Song Detector Integration
Automatic track info from Spotify, YouTube Music, etc:
Song Detector (basic):
- Artist & title → LED matrix text display
- Album artwork → LED matrix image visualization
- Color extraction → auto-generate gradients for your virtuals (effect keeps running)
Song Detector Plus (advanced):
- Everything above, plus:
- Real-time playback position & duration
- Built-in player controls
- Song Triggers - auto-apply specific scenes when certain songs play
All managed from CC settings - download, install, auto-start configuration built-in.
info: on mac we are using a custom Adapter of media-control
Frontend-Changes:
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- Release 2.1.6-b16
- adjust postinstall
- move audio-device-changed listener to app subscriptions
- Merge pull request #118 from bigredfrog/audio_list_change
- Use new audio list change event
- chore: update TypeScript target to ES2015 in main tsconfig and add new tsconfig for Playwright tests
- feat: add ffmpeg-static dependency and update video processing scripts to use it
- fix: improve handling of pixel warning dialog in Dummy Matrix test
- fix: update Playwright launch options for improved GPU handling
- adjust playwright config
- feat: update visualiser script for cross-platform compatibility
- feat: add documentation generation scripts and enhance Playwright tests with detailed steps
- feat: add audio_device_list_changed subscription and refresh logic in AudioCard
- linting
- chore: update .gitignore to include Playwright video and screenshot directories; refactor TopBar component for cleaner conditional rendering
- chore: update .gitignore and add README files for screenshots and videos; remove obsolete screenshot and video files
- refactor: update Playwright tests and configuration
- Fix: crypto only available in httpS and localhost. this adds a fallback for http with ip
Backend Changes
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- Fix: Audio device recovery after OS device list changes (#1733)
- Feat: audio-hotplug support (#1729)
- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#1726)
- Feat: skip gap- dummy devices (#1723)
- Feat: Smoke Effect (#1722)
- [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate (#1719)
- Feat: switch to fastnoiselite (#1721)
- Merge pull request #1720 from LedFx/add-fonts.css-for-visualiser
- [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks
- Feat: Add fonts route and handler for CSS in HttpServer
- Clients & Visualisers | Frontend 2.1.6 draft-1 (#1718)
- Feat: Client Interface Mk 2 (#1714)
- Dev: Optimise hsv and water effect (#1717)
- Dev: Optimize bands matrix effect x40 (#1715)
- Feat: image gradient metadata by default (#1710)
- Port CC-Feature: Song Detector (#1707)
- Fix: Prevent mutable default argument bug in EventListener (#1709)
- Docs: Contributing guidelines (#1708)
- Dev: Add an auto test script for fallbacks (#1706)
- dev: move fallback tests to separate file (#1704)
- Fix: configuring.md location and tweak docs (#1703)
- Feat: Optimized virtuals with simple segment calibration animation (#1699)
- Feat: remove calibration animation for complex_segments (#1698)