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    Controlling Servo

    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.
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    KULP/BEAGLE WIFI ADAPTOR

    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.
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    FPP test mode

    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"...
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    Controller xLights settings to reduce future headaches

    Best option to render sequences faster is to get an M3 Max based Mac.
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    Controller xLights settings to reduce future headaches

    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...
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    More new stuff and "ready to run" on the way

    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.
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    WLED API CONTROLLER

    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...
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    Fuses or just a lump of wire?

    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...
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    Fuses or just a lump of wire?

    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...
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    Triggering a FPP show externally

    Once installed, there F1 help page on the OSC configuration page provides some limited help/docs.
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    FPP Connect / UDP Out: All

    In xLights, set all the other FPP instances from "Active" to "xLights Only". When uploaded, they would be turned off.
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    Convert Vixen 2.1 to XLights sequence

    Create a new sequence and then "Import Effects" and select the vixen file. That would import that data as effects that can be manipulated.
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    Release 2023.05 Released

    Switch to a Mac? It's been fixed on the Mac for 3 days.
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    FPP on a Pi vs xSequence on a PC vs inbuilt fpp

    From an interactivity standpoint, FPP became equivalent to xSchedule around FPP4 timeframe but has definitely pulled ahead now. With all the various plugins for FPP, there is very very little that xSchedule can do that FPP cannot, but there are certainly a lot of things that FPP can do that...
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    FPP on a Pi vs xSequence on a PC vs inbuilt fpp

    From an FPP/show standpoint, the only major difference between the 3B+ and 4 would be that the gigabit ethernet on the 4 is actually connected via PCIe instead of USB. Thus, it actually runs at a real gigabit instead of about 400Mb. For MOST people's show, that would have no impact. If your...
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