Rebuilding my project consisting of
2 60-LED (WS2812B) wall-mounted strips adjacent to TV/Media Center (GPIO 16 &18)
ESP32 & Logic Level shifter mounted on breadboard
PSU: (30W) wall charger with USB-C connection to the ESP32
Will eventually add audio reactive. Waiting on delivery of INMP441.
Currently I am addressing strips as a single 120-LED segment. All LED lit and changes to color and effect seem to work fine. But, they clearly are running independently.
Is there a way to synchronize the effect so that both strips present the effect with the same color and timing?
While that will definitely work (as you have seen), it means that there is no way to have the strips ever display anything other than the same identical pattern/colour/effect etc.
You may be perfectly fine with that (more power to you if that’s the case), but if you ever want to have the option for different displays as well as the same you might want to take a look at grouping in segments.
That gives you the option of “pairing” the 1st LED from one strip with the 1st LED of the other.
That means anything you display on one shows the same way on its opposite.
The advantage of that approach is that you can create a series of presets, some that pair the LEDS as you wish to see and some that don’t.