Recent content by CaptainMurdoch

OK, thanks for the info, so that rules those GPIO headers out. Well, we could make a new EEPROM .bin that included an option for using DPIPixels for the single WS281x output at least. I'm tossing around some ideas to make upgrading the EEPROM image easier for cases like this and for other...

I have that EEPROM, have extracted it, and looked at the files, etc. and have looked through the manual, that's how I confirmed which GPIO pins the headers were wired to and that they would be compatible with the DPI output. The main question is are they hardwired through a voltage shifter as...

Are the GPIO inputs CN2/CN3/CN4 on the rPi-MFC wired through a voltage shifter or are they directly wired to the GPIO pins? We had someone ask about using DPIPixels with the rPi-MFC so that they could have onboard audio back. The main issue there is that the rPi-MFC has an onboard EEPROM which...

The rPi-28D, rPi-28D+, and rPi-MFC users are not affected, they do not need to request vouchers, they don’t need a key, they don’t need to pay for anything. These capes use the existing 2-string RPIWS281X channel output code which will continue to function in FPP v6 as it has in previous...

Bump this thread, there are only a few days left, so if you haven't taken the survey and are a FPP user please take a few minutes to respond. Once the survey is closed, the results will be posted on FalconChristmas.com.

Thanks, I appreciate it. We are getting some good feedback and are up to around 250 responses to the survey so far.

I should have put that comment more front and center in my post. I don't know why they worded it that way in the software. Maybe I should go find it in the survey code and fix the wording. Thanks for doing the survey, all input is welcome. I would rather spend my time on things that are...

Over the holidays, I started thinking about posting a poll on FalconChristmas.com to get input from users regarding FPP configuration, issues encountered in 2017, and future direction. After thinking about it for a little while, it became obvious that a simple poll on the forum wasn't going to...

The Falcon Player (FPP) will let you treat that TV or projector attached to a Raspberry Pi as a matrix using FPP's "Virtual Matrix" Channel Output. You can choose any virtual resolution in 16-pixel increments and the Pi's GPU does the scaling for you. You can have a 1080P TV but create a...

LightShowPi might be able to do it, but I am not sure.

Try to fit time in your plans to come down to the annual NorthWest C.L.A.P. (Christmas Light Addiction Problem) meeting down in Olympia on April 29th. It's an all day free meeting with sessions covering various Christmas Lighting related topics and could give you even more ideas for this year...

This has me curious. What kinds of things will you be adding to the xLights scheduler that FPP doesn't support? I think FPP's biggest scheduling weakness is the inability to cross midnight boundaries but that probably won't get resolved until I rewrite the scheduler after I am done rewriting...

The ColorLight software seems similar to screenshots of the Linsn software that I have seen. It was pretty easy to get working even with no prior experience. Multiple virtual matrices sounds really nice, I will look forward to when we can merge your patches.. I used some new undocumented FPP...

I don't want to hijack the thread so I will say if you are looking for FPP enhancements or questions start a new thread here or on the FalconChristmas.com site, but I will say that FPP does already support dynamic countdowns and dynamic text on a matrix as well as multiple ways to trigger events...

Bad Linux user joke on my part. :)