Getting your ARMY Bomb glowing 💜

If this is your first time on Bora Waves, the shortest path from nothing to your ARMY Bomb glowing along with a song is three steps:

1. Open Bora Waves in a supported browser (Chrome, Edge, or Bluefy on iPhone — details below).
2. Browse the gallery and pick a sequence someone else has made, or hit Create to build your own.
3. Open the sequence, click the Bluetooth icon, pair your ARMY Bomb, and press play. The lightstick should follow the timing the creator set.

You don't need an account to browse or watch sequences. You only need to sign up if you want to save your own work or share it in the gallery.

The lightstick connection uses Web Bluetooth, a relatively new browser feature that isn't supported everywhere. The short version: any Chromium-based browser will work; Safari won't.

You can still browse the gallery and watch sequence previews in any browser. The only thing that requires Web Bluetooth is the actual lightstick pairing.

Bora Waves supports the ARMY Bomb Ver 3, Ver 4, and the Special Edition (SE / multiM). The connection flow is the same across all three; the only difference is what name shows up in the Bluetooth picker.

Step by step

1. Make sure your computer or phone's Bluetooth is turned on.
2. Power on the ARMY Bomb by holding the button until the light starts blinking. A blinking light means the lightstick is in pairing mode and ready to be picked up.
3. Important — close any other app that is connected to the lightstick first. The official Weverse / BTS app, the maker's companion app, and Bora Waves all use the same Bluetooth connection, and the ARMY Bomb only allows one at a time. If a previous connection is still alive in another tab or another app, the new pairing will silently fail.
4. Open a sequence on Bora Waves and click the Bluetooth icon (top right of the editor or controller).
5. Your browser will pop up a Bluetooth device picker. Pick the entry that matches your lightstick:
   • Ver 4: shows up as BTS_V4 LS
   • Special Edition / multiM: shows up as multiM
   • Ver 3: shows up as BTS LIGHTSTICK3
6. Wait 5–10 seconds. A successful connection makes the lightstick flash green once. If nothing happens, jump to Troubleshooting.

Apple does not allow third-party browser engines on iOS. So even if you install Chrome or Firefox on an iPhone, those apps are running on top of Safari's engine under the hood — and Safari does not support Web Bluetooth.

The fix is Bluefy, a free third-party browser built specifically to support Web Bluetooth on iOS. It uses its own networking and Bluetooth stack, so the pairing flow that fails in Safari will work in Bluefy.

1. Open the App Store and search for “Bluefy — Web BLE Browser”. Install it.
2. Open Bluefy and go to bora-waves.com.
3. Pair your ARMY Bomb the same way you would in Chrome on a laptop. The lightstick picker is identical.

If you also use a desktop or Android device, you'll get a smoother experience there. Bluefy works, but it's a workaround for an Apple limitation, not a first-class browser.

A “sequence” on Bora Waves is a timeline of light commands that lines up with a song from YouTube. The song itself is not stored on Bora Waves — the sequence only references a YouTube video ID and stores the colors, effects, and timing the creator wants the lightstick to follow while the song plays.

From scratch

1. On the homepage, click Create. You'll be asked to sign in if you haven't already.
2. Give the sequence a title (you can change this later) and paste the YouTube link of the song you want to sync. Almost any YouTube URL works — full links, share links, Shorts, embeds, even just the 11-character video ID on its own.
3. Pick whether the song is by BTS or by a different artist (the gallery defaults to a BTS-only view, but Non-BTS songs are still welcome — they live behind the Non-BTS Songs filter).
4. If it's a BTS song, optionally pick the album. This powers album filters in the gallery and helps other ARMYs find your sequence.
5. Click Create and you'll land in the editor. Add color clips and effect clips on the timeline, press play to preview, and refine timing until it lines up with the song.

Tips for timing

• Drag clips from the left or right edge to resize them instead of recreating them at a new length.
• Hold Shift while clicking to select multiple clips at once and move them together.
• The waveform/beat-detection layer is on the roadmap; for now, looping a few seconds of the song while you place a clip is the fastest way to nail the timing.

Saved sequences live under your account on My sequences. You decide whether each one is private (only you can see it) or public (visible in the community gallery).

• Private (draft): only you can open it. Use this for works in progress and personal sequences you don't want to share.
• Public: anyone can browse, watch, and remix it from the gallery. Public sequences should ideally have a finished feel — titles like “test” or “WIP” are filtered out of the homepage gallery so the surface stays clean.

Saving requires you to be signed in. Until autosave-to-cloud ships, your in-progress edits are also kept in your browser's local storage as a safety net — if you close the tab without saving, opening the sequence again on the same browser should restore the last few changes. If you switch devices or clear your browser data, that local backup is gone, so save to cloud as soon as you've done meaningful work.

The ARMY Bomb is a light, not a speaker. When you connect it over Bluetooth, audio still plays through whatever speaker your phone or computer normally uses. If you can't hear the music after pairing, the most common causes are:

• The YouTube player is muted. Browsers start most embedded videos muted until you click somewhere on the page. Tap the player, then click the speaker icon to unmute.
• Your device is muted or the volume is all the way down. Check both the system volume and the YouTube player's own slider.
• Bluetooth audio routing. Some phones automatically route audio to any newly-paired Bluetooth device. The lightstick isn't a speaker, so audio sent to it just disappears. Open your system Bluetooth settings, find the lightstick, and make sure “Media audio” / “Phone audio” are disabled for it — only the data connection should stay on.

Most connection failures fall into a small handful of patterns. Try these in order:

“Failed to connect” on a Ver 3

1. Use the Forget device and try again option in the Bluetooth modal. Ver 3 lightsticks are especially prone to stale Bluetooth handshakes from a previous session, and clearing the cached pairing fixes roughly four out of five Ver 3 connection failures.
2. Power-cycle the lightstick: turn it off, wait five seconds, hold the power button until it blinks again.
3. Make sure no other app is connected. Fully force-close the official Weverse / BTS app from your phone's recent apps drawer — minimising isn't enough.
4. Open your phone or computer's Bluetooth settings. Find any saved entry whose name starts with “BBOMB”, “multiM”, or “BTS_V4” and forget / unpair it. Then come back to Bora Waves and pair fresh.

The Bluetooth icon does nothing

That usually means your browser doesn't support Web Bluetooth. Double-check the browser support section. If you're on iOS, install Bluefy.

The lightstick connects but doesn't respond to clips

Press play on the timeline. Sequences only emit color commands while playback is running — pausing the timeline pauses the lightshow too. If playback is running and the lightstick still isn't reacting, try a fresh pair: forget the device and reconnect.

“Application error” / blank page

Almost always a stale JavaScript bundle from a previous visit. Hard-reload the page (long-press the reload button and pick “Reload without cache”), or clear site data for bora-waves.com in your browser settings.

I lost work because I forgot to save

Until autosave-to-cloud ships, your editor draft lives in your browser's local storage. To check whether it's recoverable: open the same browser on the same device, log in, and reopen the editor for that sequence (or create a new one). If your last clips appear, save immediately. If the editor opens empty, the local copy is unfortunately gone — that happens when the browser data is cleared, the work was done in private/incognito mode, or a different browser is being used.

You can browse the gallery and watch most sequences without an account. Signing up is only needed if you want to create, save, or publish your own work.

• Sign up: use email + password. Pick a username at signup — it's public and gets shown next to your published sequences.
• Forgot password: on the login screen, click “Forgot password?” and follow the email link. The link is single-use and time-limited; if it expires, just request a new one.
• Delete a sequence: open it, go to sequence settings, and use the delete option. Deletes are permanent.
• Privacy: see the privacy policy for what we store and why. The short version: an email, a username, and the sequences you create.

If none of the above helped, head to the contact page with as much detail as you can share — what you were trying to do, what happened instead, your device + browser, your ARMY Bomb version, and a screenshot if possible. The more specific the report, the faster a real human can help you sort it.

Bora Waves is built and supported by one person, so replies aren't always instant. Thank you for your patience — borahae 💜