Recent content by bmh255

Sounds like quite an adventure. Would love to see some photos of R2D2. Life always seeems to get in the way of my Christmas light plans and I end up having to do it all late at night at the last minute. Mounting lights after 9 pm on the roof makes my neighbours think I’m crazy. If only they...

It’s a shame it has to come to that for them. It’s an awesome display. Can understand if residents around need to get in or out with the added traffic, but there is always a solution that does not involve the abuse that normally goes with it.

Will watch this one with interest. Was thinking of getting some seeds for next year to light up a hedge and some small trees.

Saw some YouTube videos on music sync’d lights and loved it. Always put out lights but started with solar and extra low voltage ones. Plus I love a challenge and learning the systems is fun and frustrating at times haha. It’s also a creative outlet and a good break from the day to day grind...

Well where do I start. I’m self suggesting back in kindergarten where you learn to count. For some reason I set my star up as 40/30/20 nodes, when it actually has 70/50/30. Talk about stupidity. Anyway reset that and all working. Then it pays to read the manual. To run the smart receivers...

I will boot the controller up later and check. All the lights I have work perfect except the Mega Star and arches, and display as normal.

Starting to see some failures as well. Got my batch in 2021 and first year with them installed into conduit along the roof line. Worked fine for around 5 hours then have started to fail. So far 3 of the 4 new props I made with that batch have failed now. Seems to be both power and data...

Well whatever is going on I will have to sit down and sort it out next year. Added the arches to the display (5 x 32) and only 80 of those light up also. Always stopping on even numbers. 50 for the star and 80 for the arches. Deleted my entire layout and started again. Wiped the controller...

Yes that’s my bad I had never updated it since I bought it. Couple of years ago. Updated to v30 tonight and all seemed to go in ok. Setup the network again and all working as it should. Yes well below the 24k pixels used that’s for sure. I say not enough but the minister for war and...

Tried that also now. Also ran the firmware update too. have ran the star off the roofline 298 pixel port and it all works fine, just seems like any new string I create stops at 50 pixels. Like I have hit an output limit.

No. In test mode still only the first 50 nodes operate. Have also tried to delete the star and make it just a single line of 90 pixels and still only 50 nodes light up. Created a seperate new single line model on another port and it won’t light them Al up in test mode either.

Yeh last year had a 2 ring star. This year moved to a new 3 ring unit. Have rendered, saved in X lights, uploaded to the controller from X lights to let it configure it. Have also deleted the element and recreated, mapped and uploaded again but still no joy.

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Good evening, wondering if someone may have some input. Not sure what I did with years mega tree star but can only get the first 50 of 90 pixels working. 3 ring star, 40,30,20 layout. lights stop after 50 pixels. Have plugged in other 100 node strings, tried other cables but still stop at 50...

Welcome. Fantastic and helpful collection of people here that will help you along the way. Target some achievable lights and props for your first outing, with maybe some backups you can add if all goes to plan before it’s time to turn them on. Look forward to seeing how you go. Enjoy the...