Recent content by Domestos

Megatree base is 3.4m and the star is a bit over 1m, so all in all about 4.5m

Basically the same as Johnnyboy without the manual switch.

I use Shelly 1 PM switches, and stagger the turn on times to be 1 minute apart. You can also use normal WiFi outlets like the TP Link Kasa (if you can still find them - controllable via a plugin from FPP) or TP Link Tapo (which replaced Kasa I think) or the normal Arlec ones. They run at about...

IKEA A$100 MiniTree. Three years ago I built 4 of these trees, and apart from the odd pixel dying here and there, they have been going very strong. (Last year I added the Snowflakes on top) These mini-trees have withstand the harsh Brisbane Sun, and can be taken apart for easy storage. The...

Here is what I use. Speakers Amp Will work you out about 55 quid. The sound is going from the Rasp Pi via a micro jack splitter to the Amp and the FM transmitter. That way the live sound and the broadcast sound is in sync. To be honnest I was expecting the sound output to be horrible, but...

If you are using the hansen pi hat, you don't need to do a dc to dc step down to 5v. The hat can power the pi from 12v, so one less thing to wory about.

I am adding 4 more DIY mini trees (I will try to do a constuction build of these) and 4 Spiral trees using the "new" seed pixels from Ray-Wu. Don't know how they will hold up in the Brissy sun, but they are quite cheap, and very easy to mount on a spiral tree frame from Bunnings. Also adding 4...

Having played around alot with "cheap" options, I could never really get them to work properly. The Dig-Octa, and Dig controllers in general, last I checked does not support DMX. To controll DMX via xLights, you will need a dedicated DMX controller, or a combo DMX and Pixel controller...

I've done that with a couple of Shelly 1 PM switches. Small form factor, and great app to controll them. Works with pretty much all Smart Home integrations and it has built in Power Monitoring. Here is an Amazon link for the Shelly. You can also go Sonoff as a cheaper alternative to Shelly.

Did a quick Ebay search, and you can get 4 of the 60Watt LED beams for the price from Aliexpress which was only 2 - link

Hey @BluePat there are a couple of things to consider when looking at beam lights. From what I understand you are looking for the "Sky-search" look of WW2? Anyhow, as mentioned above there are a couple of factors: Control - Most if not all Moving Heads use DMX as the control method. Make...

Just my 2cents. I've got both Meanwell LRS350 PSU's and a HP 1200Watt with breakout board. The HP powersupply is noisy as, and it runs HOT. I also found that it is pulling WAY more watts at idle. I've got the Shelly 1 PM "smart" switches in both my controllers, the box running the 2 X LRS 350...

With the worldwide shortage of RasPi's and the exorbitant prices for the ones you can find, I was wondering if there is a good alternative for the Raspberry Pi? My use case would be to use it as a remote player running a Virtual Matrix off it. Has anybody had any success with alternatives like...

I can second the Tactix cases from Bunnings, I have 4 of them for all my various expansion boxes. I can also suggest the Craftright one, however it doesn't say what the actual IP rating on the case is. The Tactix ones are IP 65 rated. I think the build quality of the Craftright ones are...

Isn't that only applicable if you run Version 6.x and later of FPP. My understaning is if you run FPP v 5.x you don't need to? But yeah valid point. Add in an additional $50 for the FPP licence. I've updated the post :)