Creating a Separate Light Show Network for your display

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Creating a Separate Light Show Network for your display - LSNWN EP.6

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How 2 Pixel

Күн бұрын

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@dennishammond3126 2 ай бұрын

That presentation was awesome here in Lone Star Texas, thank you so much

@kirtxpress 2 ай бұрын

thanks for your videos. always helpful

@wonderlandoftemucolaneholi6493 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Great information

@ronm6585 2 ай бұрын

Thank you. 👍🏻👍🏻

@frankhernandez5273 2 ай бұрын

Nice video. I haven't seen this method done before. I always wondered if it could be done. As always, very informative. Thanks!!!

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

No problem, glad you learned something new!

@c3adkins 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this upload. This year will be my first Christmas light show and the method you discussed in this video is exactly what I plan to use. I have no doubt I’ll be referencing this several times to help set up everything network-related. Thanks again and please keep the tutorials coming.

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! I'm glad the video was helpful!

@jim9520 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video. This is all new to me and it is very interesting.

@jerrypennington8045 2 ай бұрын

I like your videos and i have learned alot,i was hoping you could recommend a good book on pixels and controllers and how to set them up. Thanks

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

Glad the videos are useful! As to recommend a good book on pixels, I'm going to be 100% honest, I don't know of any. I'm not a huge book worm so I can't really help with your question, sorry.

@joemoffo9706 2 ай бұрын

Great video and easy to understand, thank you. Is there a way to connect the two routers together, wireless instead of using an ethernet cable on the wan port? I see on the show router there are multiple internet connection types, "Dynamic IP", "Static IP", "PPPoE", "L2TP", and "PPTP".

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

Sadly, there isn't really any way to do that. The different protocols you saw are different ways you can have the second router communicate with the main router, or whatever is on the other side, but it must be done over ethernet. If you're looking for a way to set up a light show network without having to run a super long ethernet cable, I'd recommend possibly using the bridge method. I've also thought about what might happen if I attached a router to the ethernet port on a Raspberry Pi that was set up for the bridge method. Would this technically allow there to be a separate light show router that can communicate wirelessly with the main router? I'm not quite sure right now but I plan on doing some testing.

@joemoffo9706 2 ай бұрын

@@How2Pixel Let me know how your testing goes. That is exactly what I need. Home router wifi to PI wifi, PI ethernet to wan port on show router, and show router wifi to controllers. My sequences reside on my espixelstick/quinled controllers, so my PI(primary) is just sending timing packets to my controllers(Remotes).

@denn450 2 ай бұрын

hi there what if i changed my mega tree for more lights would i have to change all my setup in xlights

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

No, if you just add more strands or lights to the tree and don't drastically change it, everything will be fine. If you have any sequences programmed with the old tree, you will just need to re-render them and Xlights will put the effects on the new design of the tree.

@AlexSantos-dy2wx 2 ай бұрын

Question I have 4 smart receivers, one is for small mega tree 8ports but on xlight it take up 8ports trying to figure out on how to add the rest when that smart receiver take up 8ports iam little confused I have falcon f16v5,4 SRX1,1 SRX2

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

I'm a little bit confused so I have a question. Do you have all 4 SRx1 receivers and the SRx2 receiver on one chain? Or are they separated across multiple chains? The SRx2 receiver is technically 2 normal receivers put onto one board. So when you set it up in xlights, the SRx2 receiver should look like 2 receivers, and they should be receiver A and receiver B unless you have other receivers before it on the chain.

@AlexSantos-dy2wx 2 ай бұрын

@How2Pixel I have two SRx1 chained together, but my tree copies the same sequence as my matrix/arch. I have 4 ports going into the matrix and 1 port going into the tree PORT 17,18,19,20A INTO MATRIX/ ARCH and 17B INTO my small mini tree does that make since or iam I doing something wrong

@AlexSantos-dy2wx 2 ай бұрын

@How2Pixel my first show has 5k pixels, one main controller, and 5 smart receivers

@How2Pixel 2 ай бұрын

Ok that makes a little bit more sense, so you have 2 receivers, one is going to the matrix/arch and all 4 ports are being used there. Then you have another receiver for your tree but only 1 port is being used there right? And you said on xlights your tree is trying to take up 8 ports correct? If you only want the tree to use 1 port, then you need to go into the model settings on the layout tab, and set the string count to 1. You'll then have to increase the strands per string, that way your tree is the same size still. Did this help or am I still misunderstanding you?

@Benchiesgoboom 20 күн бұрын

Would it work?: Instead of bridging raspberry pi’s to my home network WiFi (one to control colorlite card on P4 matrix and one to control F16v4) I am going to create a separate light show network. I will use a separate router for this. I was Thinking I could connect a switch to my light show network router (the router itself doesn’t have enough ports) and run cat6a cables to connect the Pi’s to the switch and then also connect the F16v4 and the colorlite card to the switch. Would everything talk to each other and work? I had some freezing and glitching in last years show and I think is was caused by all the traffic on my home network and the distance my Pi’s are from my home networks WiFi modem. I am running a smaller light show with about 7000 pixels.

@How2Pixel 16 күн бұрын

Yes, that should work as long as everything is setup to keep the data separate, and you use unicast instead of multicast for your PIs to communicate with the devices. Unicast will send the data only to the IP address you put in whereas multicast sends it everywhere and hopes the right device finds it.

@seanieg 16 күн бұрын

Fantastic! Thanks! In previous years I was running a master/remote type setup. I am looking forward to give this separate light show network method a try this year. Also this will be my first year splitting some stuff up and running some differential receivers. Your videos have helped tremendously! Keep up the great content!

@seanieg 16 күн бұрын

@How2Pixel could I use 1 Pi and FPP to control both the P4 matrix and the F16v4?

@How2Pixel 15 күн бұрын

From my experiences I would have to say no. I tried to use one pi to control my 5,000ish lights on my F16v5 and also used it to control my 56 P5 panels. However, everything started glitching really bad and the screen would freeze, the lights would freeze, and it would just stop communicating with the controller. So I'd recommend using 2 PIs if you can.