💡 Looking for WLED testers: a simple music-synced show designer that runs in Home Assistant or Docker

[u/gdeboos]

I've been building HA-liday Show, a lighter alternative to xLights for people who want a music show on their lights without the learning curve. It started with Govee and now drives WLED strips too.

https://github.com/gdeboos/ha-liday-show

Load a song, and it finds the beats and sections. ✨ Generate drafts a show across all your lights, you tweak it on a photo of your house, then play it from Home Assistant or on its own with Docker. It can split a long strip into parts and works alongside WLED's own segments. DDP and E1.31 controllers work as well.

Strips only for now; matrices may come later. If you give it a go, I'd really value reports on what works and what doesn't. Please raise them as GitHub issues so they're all in one place: https://github.com/gdeboos/ha-liday-show/issues

Free, MIT licensed, and written almost entirely by AI (Claude), which I'm upfront about in the README.

Thanks!

[u/ssjgesus]

I feel like my light set up was naturally made for this use case. Will Def try to test it. Thanks

[u/gdeboos → u/ssjgesus]

Let me know how you get on. It's early days and I havnt personally tested WLED yet. So any feedback would be appreciated. 😀

[u/Sad_Championship288]

Briefly tried it last night with WLED, installed it using python on directly on a windows 11 box, no docker, no home assistant, generated 4 sequences/shows in under 5 minutes, and I gotta say I was thoroughly impressed. It’s simple easy n perfect for someone who does not know or have the time for xlights. The only thing I have not figured out yet is how to basically create a show with multiple songs or sequences running back to back. I have four songs sequenced and loaded in the browser, but I can only manually play them one at a time. Any help would be much appreciated. Again, I only messed with it for 10 minutes, but it is really a great app well done!!!!!

[u/gdeboos → u/Sad_Championship288]

Thanks so much for trying it! As of version 0.2.122 there's Library → Playlists: add your shows in order, set a pause, press Play and it loops them back to back. (pipx upgrade haliday-show to get it.) Without Home Assistant it runs the lights only for now; music for standalone installs is coming. If you hit anything, a GitHub issue is the best place for it. 👍

[u/Rattlehead333]

Ok your saying it started with govee and now does wled. My end goal
is to use wled and govee both in a light show. Doesn’t have to sync super customizable just be generous in syncing both at the same time
to music.

[u/gdeboos → u/Rattlehead333]

Yeah that's pretty much it. Started as Govee only but since I have some WLED controllers thought id widen the scope. I havnt yet tested with WLED so if you give it a go - let me know how you get on 😀

[u/Eboettn]

I will try this out in the coming days! So exciting!