That's awesome. They've been great for us!

Oh that's awesome!

Hi Mr Smith could you sell some of these to me? I serve in my church video ministry and these would be a huge blessing, but I would never be able to make them myself. I hope you read this 🙏. I can pay you through zelle or any app + shipping, of course. Blessings!

@@carlosmerlos1317 I appreciate your request and I am truly humbled that you would ask me to sell you completed modules. Unfortunately, this is the work of many contributors portions of the work are subject to the GNU General Public License - the software and instructions are free to share, however any sale or financial reimbursement could be considered a violation of the license terms. I am a strong supporter of open source projects and I am grateful for those that share their hard work. I have the following suggestions for your congregation. All of the parts are available from Amazon for both the original DIY modules and the extended / modified relay control version. My total cost for building the “On Air Light” module was less than $5, and the USB powered light I chose from Amazon was about $20. There only skills required should be available to you within your congregation. Ask around to see if anyone has soldering experience, they don’t have to be ‘experts’ just own a small pencil soldering iron and a roll of solder. The best candidates are Amateur Radio (HAM) operators in your congregation or community. I’m sure they can assemble these easily for you. I’ve linked the 3D printable case that was posted online, If you cannot find anyone in your congregation to produce them for you. There are also 3D printing services such as shapeways.com online, or many of the 3D Printing Stores can recommend hobbyists in your area that would be able to produce what you need quickly.
 There are a number of people who both contributed to this work and continue to support it. i’m sure any of us would be willing to answer any questions that come up as you build your own modules.

Glad it's been helpful to you! Unfortunately I'm probably not going to make a video covering that, sorry!

If you're talking about the Buy Me a Coffee link on the instructions page, that's actually for the original creator of the tallies, which is great! I only made a video about em 😊

Glad you found it helpful!!

Glad to hear they're working well for you!!

My next question is; where did u put the tally once it was made and how did u keep it secure/safe

@@phddudlexxx I 3D printed some little cases and just taped them to the back of our camera monitors

I also ended up using your 3D file for the case Thank you for all you do for church ministry and the Gospel of our Lord Jesus. you are very inspirational. From Zimbabwe (in Africa)

@@phddudlexxx Awesome, love to hear that. Thanks for the kind words!

Oh wow, awesome!

Is there a way to do this with OBS?

Same question​@@vollzeitspacken503

Love to hear it!

That's awesome, glad to hear it!

1. It's all on wifi, so just depends on your network. 2. It just has a micro USB port. We have ours plugged into our vmount battery plate! 3. Depends on how you're powering it, but they're super low draw. 4. They connect directly to it over your network!

Awesome! Yeah I've thought about extending the design, but realistically vhb tape and some zipties has worked great and I can't force myself to work it out 😂

You're welcome, hope it helps you out!!

You could always add a battery module to power the board!

That sounds awesome!

I tested it Sunday with my dev boards I just need to work out a few bugs and a buddy is working on the 3d printed housing.

@@pastorhudson nice! Love the teamwork!

I'm not familiar with the web installer, could you link it so I can take a look? And right??? They've been a game changer for us!

Thanks! They've been awesome for us!

Hey Aron, definitely! Wild to me that you found this video! These have been huge for us at our church, so thankful for the work you put into it!

Well, ever since I researched tally lights myself back when our church started livestreaming, KZfaq keeps feeding me tally light videos weekly. But yeah, you're welcome, that's why I decided to put it out for people to use. And thanks for the credit! I'll link the video some time soon. 😊 Also, as a side note, i do need to come after you just a little bit for your soldering 😜 (jk)

@@AronHetLam ha! To be fair, the ones I actually use are clean, I was just trying to work around a camera 😂

​@@budget-church-livestreaming you're on the page! Also, don't look to closely on my solder joints in the picture 😅

@@AronHetLam thanks again man! And I promise I won't 😂

You do that on your phone/computer after connecting directly to the tally light's wifi

No, but they don't actually connect to the cameras. They just need to be powered with a usb cable and then attached however you want. Depending on the camera, we use VHB tape, gaff tape, or zip ties

Thank youuu!

Hello. I can't read the resistors. Can you post the values of it, please? Thank you, brother.

@@jedd03 all the values are in the instructions linked in the video description!

Hm, I'm not super familiar with the neopixel unfortunately!

Sounds like you missed something when adding the library files. I'd check that

Hey Neil, sorry to hear that! I've never had that problem, but it sounds like potentially you're missing some of the libraries or something else from one of the earlier steps.

@@budget-church-livestreaming Thanks for the reply. I think you're right but I've tried moving and duplicating the missing files in the Arduino folder and the compiler still can't find them.

Glad to hear it! You could hypothetically wire up whatever type of light you want, rather than just a single small LED, depending on what your use case is. Just make sure you're supplying it enough voltage etc. Because this code is written specifically for an RGB LED, you might have to modify it a bit to work with something that's not RGB and instead is just on/off single color

@@budget-church-livestreaming Hey, we were able to follow your directions to a T - thank you for making them so clear and easy to follow! BUT I have an issue... after a couple of min of not being switched, one will turn purple/pink and no longer work. The other will continue working from green to red without a problem. I tried daisy chaining them with ip address as you suggested. They will switch for about 2 min and then again one turns pink/purple and stops switching. I have both of them set on a designated Wifi - specifically for the Tally lights. Do you have any ideas?

@@wordoftruthchristianchurch9623 hm...the pink color represents that the tallies are attempting to connect to the switcher. Maybe that tally is too far away, or something wrong was put into its config? I would suggest completely reflashing the microcontroller and wiping its EEPROM, and trying to set it up again. Past that, the only other things I can think to check are the distance to its wifi access point and like I mentioned before, the config settings that you put in when you started it up. Sorry I can't help more than that :/

We have run these at our church for 1.5 -2 years now. To make them bigger, so that they can be seen from stage, drill a hole in a ping pong ball the diameter of the led, stick the led in the hole, qnf a dab of hot glue will hold it. If this makes the light too distracting, then use the LED Brightness setting to turn it down

Hm, the only LED that should ever light up orange is the status LED, not the tally LED, so something might be off in your setup. I would say run it while it's connected to the computer still and see if any messages pop up in the Arduino IDE console

It doesn't need an Internet connection, but they do need to all be on the same network as the switcher. And no, the type of camera doesn't matter! But the code is specifically written to work with a black magic switcher

Hm, we usually have a few hundred people in our room and I haven't had issues. May just be the strength and placement of your router!

@@budget-church-livestreaming yea we have the same, works perfect and quick with no one in the room. Perhaps I should try tying them all to the cam 1 tally like you guys do. Our network is all ubiquiti with WAPs throughout the building. All tallies are currently tied to only the closest backstage WAP and limited to the production network.

@@perrylawson5122 definitely worth a try! Hope that works for you

Same here. Big time issues when people are in the room.

The biggest thing would be making sure they're on the same network and configured with the correct IP's!

Our mobile cameras have a vmount battery and a plate (like this one amzn.to/45AqOMA), so we plug the tally into one of the USB ports. The LED's come with the resistors you need, but not the short wires you'll need, so you will have to get those separately.

Could you send a link for the short wire thanks for your reply!@@budget-church-livestreaming

@@nathangoh834 something like this should work just fine! amzn.to/47CDS5Q

I've never tried specifically, but I'm sure if you googled it you could find some way to set that up with an obs plugin!

I've never used that board so I'm not sure! It might have a slightly different pin-out or something though, so you may have to modify the code a bit, or connect the LEDs slightly differently

@@budget-church-livestreaming I got it working. It was actually just due to a lack of contact with the D0 output on the board.

@@Pfarbi nice! Glad to hear it!

Thanks! Out of the box this will only work with ATEM switchers, but if you're comfortable with code I'm sure you could write something similar to work with OBS!

If you get it working with OBS PLEASE let us know!

I'm sure there probably is, but I haven't specifically looked into it

No, sorry! You'd have to experiment with that yourself

Thnk you sir! This is a great help!

I don't actually do a ton else with them! Any ideas?

@@budget-church-livestreaming anything - sensors, various boards, Arduino IDE, Microphyton etc, will be great *I don't real programmer, just an hobbiest

Yes!

They work over wifi, so hypothetically as long as they're in a place where they can stay connected to the network, you'll be fine!

Understood, but that's the thing, isn't it. We do sports and event broadcasting for high schools. Not all sites have robust wifi blanketing the fields. Thanks!

@@Maxx-Jay I get it!

I don't think I'd make as much as you think, they're a decent amount of work to put together!

Hey! I haven't before, but shoot me an email and we can talk about what you need! joshnassar94@gmail.com

Never really thought about it! I feel like that would probably be a bit more work than I'm willing to commit haha

You should definitely sell them. I don't own a solder, so it would really help out. Even if I have to spend a little more

I just bought the wire on Amazon!

I haven't tried them, but I'm sure you can! There are a handful of microcontrollers that should work as long as they've got that wifi chip. You may need to modify the code a bit though!

It's a little bit different to make some for vMix. This github repo is a good starting point github.com/ThomasMout/Arduino-vMix-tally

Not this specifically, you'll have to make some slight changes to work with vmix's protocol

Definitely willing! They're nothing fancy and could probably use some work, but I'll work on getting that uploaded!

Here's a link! Again, it's not perfect, but it's what I've been using! www.thingiverse.com/thing:6152844

@@budget-church-livestreaming Thank you! I made my first one this morning and it worked great! now I just need to get a new print bed and make the case.

@@samuelvanderford4585 Woo, that's awesome, glad to hear it!

For sure! The bigger issue might just be the size. There's a comment on here about someone who used a pingpong ball as a big diffuser, or you could also just add more LEDs!

You're so welcome!