Recent content by johnson8ryley

I am seeing that is more and more the trend of people receiving bad customer service from them. But surprisingly, this year I bought their 10 channel dumb rgb controller, their RGB coro stars, and RGB coro candy canes (not knowing the controversy about them beforehand) and I spoke with their...

Finally someone explains to me why shade is thrown at HC all the time. While I don't like this one bit, I will say that buyers can choose to buy from who they wish. If it is true that HC copied Advatek's CPU, shame on them. But 5 years later and HC has grown and people continue to buy from them...

Thanks for pointing out that their topper isn't the best Dan. Also, I see that a lot of people point out Falcon's expansion capability, but holidaycoro's boards also support expansion and long range expansion. So I guess I'm confused as to why people use the expansion argument for falcon boards...

Hi all, I'm looking at building or buying a kit to make a 360degree mega tree that has 48 pixel strands with 50 pixels per strand with 3" spacing. Initially, I was turned on to holidaycoro's presale as they have a great sale going on and their plug and play kit includes everything, no wiring...

Will definitely get another power supply more than likely and inject power when needed! I'd have to do the math but I think injecting power every 100 nodes would be sufficient. Clearly I have more work cutout for me than just buying the kits like I originally intended. Thanks again for steering...

I looked into your suggestion and HC's controllers allow for daisy chaining additional pixels. I'm thinking I can do a 48 strip tree instead of a 32x50 360 degree tree. They also sell a topper that allows for 48 strands to be connected to the quick connect topper at the top. I'll debate between...

Good point. This is something I could change within the controller webGUI though couldn't I? Change the RGB order

I agree with you there Notenough, however, HolidayCoro is running an insane presale on their CCR tree. Yes, they are 2811 strips which I use on my current arches, but the tree kit is only $600. Comes with strips, controller, enclosure, prewired cables, power supply, mounting hardware...

Not too worried about this as if a strip goes out, they're only about $20 to replace which the farm owner won't mind I'm sure. And replacements will come with connectors attached so it should be a matter of swapping out the bad pixel strip by plug and play. I'm slow so maybe clarify some of...

I will say Ed said he has been essentially out of commission to personal reasons for the past 2 years. But he sounded very convincing in his emails to me that he was addressing software on all platforms, adding features, and fixing bugs. I mean the guy told me to keep his $100 ECG-P2 until he...

@Notenoughlights thank you for the resources! I'll check this out next week as I'm putting together a rough quote for the farmer on my hours spent programming, costs for the lights, etc. I have 6+ old windows 7 computers at my house collecting dust, so truthfully it wouldn't be much of a hassle...

You're welcome Alec. I'll keep private what Ed told me via email that's caused j1sys to sort of fall off, but he seems so determined to get things rolling again. I have a ECG-P2 from 6 years ago and it works perfectly! Also as a testimony to Ed, I ordered a ECG-P2 as an emergency due to pixel...

I had a similar option Notenoughthoughts. While I am familiar with Raspberry Pi's from my engineering courses, I have no experience using them along with FPP. This is something I could learn of course, but would cost time and hourly pay. I will explore this idea as you're right, having isolated...

I wanted to share this with everyone as I felt it was important. I have been talking with Ed from J1sys lately and he informed me they are working at updating software for all their products and also developing new products. This is big news in my opinion as even a simple device like the ECG-P2...

The show is going to have many isolated units throughout the farm. There will be a 100ft pixel archway tunnel that a train will drive under. That will be on the other side of the farm so there will be some unit controlling lights over there isolated and pumping music through speakers as the...