Recent content by dkulp

This release is probably the "biggest" release we've done in a very long time with changes that have large impacts through out the code base. The main new feature is...

Personally, I'd strongly recommend selling the Pixies on eBay and getting a real e1.31 controller. The Pixies will not work perfectly with xLights/FPP. They may work "well enough" for some cases, but there will always be additional limits. Second: I wouldn't spend much time getting it...

I believe QLab support OSC cues. You likely can use that to trigger fpp commands via the fpp-OSC plugin. You wouldn't need separate MIDI hardware or anything connected to the FPP instance.

You can daisy chain the PCA9685's as well. Up to 62 of them. A single Pi could control the entire chain. Definitely a pain to configure though.

I wouldn't recommend any of the "150MB" adapters at this point. Find something with the Realtek 8812BU chipset as those are the best supported/tested.

There are two different test modes targeting different use cases. The main one people use is the Status -> Display Testing, but this is more targeting complete display. There are ways to select just channel ranges for various models/strings, but the information provided by that is "limitted"...

Best option to render sequences faster is to get an M3 Max based Mac.

To go a step further, I personally leave "auto size" turned off for each controller and give each controller a block of channels large enough for everything it has along with a bunch of extras. For example, the controller with my arches and pixel stakes currently has about 8K channels of...

I wish the power supply was available in a 120V version... :( When I first started out many years ago, I could get various weatherproof and waterproof power supplies at 500W or so for the US market. Cannot really find them anymore.

If using a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone, you may be able to do it entirely without any code. If the sensors can trigger GPIO inputs, then you can configure it all within FPP's UI and no need for any scripting at all. That said, you can still use scripts (python, php, plain bash, etc...) as FPP...

The eFuses themselves allow for very short bursts up to 100% over (~10A). But that's "very short" bursts. For PWM cases, that should be OK. I've done some testing with them and have sold a bunch of the K8-PB's that have them onboard. The Falcon folks have done more testing with them as they...

Very interesting. While testing and evaluating eFuses for my board, I did a bunch of testing with 5A fuses that my manufactures sticks on my boards. I blew over 30 of them from various batches of my boards and such to try and determine some of the "actual" characteristics and they all blew...

Once installed, there F1 help page on the OSC configuration page provides some limited help/docs.

In xLights, set all the other FPP instances from "Active" to "xLights Only". When uploaded, they would be turned off.

Create a new sequence and then "Import Effects" and select the vixen file. That would import that data as effects that can be manipulated.