LED configuration
For Linux, there are two options to control all of these LEDs:
RGBcommander was the first to market for Linux and what I had started with, but along the way I discovered LEDSpicer. I had much better luck with LEDSpicer, and as a result have switched my system over to it, and I will be covering a start–to–finish implementation in a separate article, due to it being such an involved process to fully setup.