u/Comfortable-Pay-8711

I’ve always wanted a proper spatial music visualiser for smart lights, but for the living room.

Not just “lights react to sound,” and not something locked to one ecosystem; I wanted an app where lights can be placed in a virtual layout of the room and then controlled in real time based on live music analysis and their actual physical position.

So I started building it a year ago, and now it's time to show it you guys for constructive judgment time.

The goal is for iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Apple Silicone only) to become a real spatial light show controller: effects moving across your room, mapped to where your lights are, with music driving how everything behaves, creating scenes with effects in different parts of the room, storing multiple room configs etc

I’ve put up a small site for it and wanted to share it here because I feel like this is the kind of thing some people in here might appreciate.

Would this be something you’d use?

I’ve tried pretty much every app that syncs lights with music; iLightShow, Lights & Music, all of them. They’re great in their own way, and honestly they’re what got me into this space in the first place. But I always felt like something was… off.

Most apps treat your lights like a list. But in reality, your lights exist in a space.

Lights & Music got closest for me because you could sort of sequence effects between bulbs, which made it feel more “alive”. But I kept thinking that even though this is the best option it could be much much better.

I’m a software engineer, so about a year ago I started building something for myself, and it became my favourite smart lights app.

The idea was simple (at least in my head):

what if you could map your actual room, place your lights on it, and then run effects in that space instead of just triggering bulbs?

It kind of spiralled from there :)

Now it’s turned into this system where you can: map your room layout and position lights, layer multiple effects on top of each other, have those effects react to live music (not just beats, but energy, frequencies, etc.)

The goal is that it doesn’t feel like “lights reacting to music”, but more like the whole room does.

I’ve been working on it pretty much every evening for the past year. I wasn’t even sure if I’d ever show it to anyone, it was more of a personal “this should exist” kind of creation.

It runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac (I couldn’t decide so I just did all of them).

I’m still polishing it, but I’m at the point where I’m wondering if this is actually something other people would use, or if it’s just me being too deep into smart lights (I'm proud of my obsession)😅

Happy to share more or show it if anyone’s curious, just not sure if on top of a year of my time is it worth investing 100 dollars for App Store dev license.

oh and it supports more than Philips Hue. LIFX, WLED (!), and Nanoleaf panels as well

https://reddit.com/link/1sngv45/video/hfxj59pccmvg1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1sngv45/video/2brddhoccmvg1/player