Recent content by Kartman

I admit this is not for a window frame, but for my roof outline I used 20mm conduit and seed pixels mounted with 3d printed clips every 5 seeds. I used another 3d printed clip with magnets to hold it on the metal colourbond roof. Withstood 6 weeks of FNQ weather although some of the clips were a...

I ran seeds as my roof outline this year, not sure what the brightness setting was as it is via the Falcon F16 which is now packed up, but they fitted in perfectly with the bullets used on the gutter outline.. Mine were the 4 wire ones and I had two problems, wiring them up to three wire plugs...

I think I have worked out how to do it!

I just have to work out how to upload it.

I feel your pain. Last year I tested all my props before putting them up and all tested OK, but once up the megatree started having weird failures. I would replace faulty pixels and the problem would just move on. I ended up getting all new pixels for @AAH and haven't even had one failure on the...

Apart from adding a roof outline this year I got some friends to record voices for my talking props. The tell some pretty poor Dad jokes and introduce a few songs. To add to the effect I put speakers at each end of my display and used a few FPP Commands to mute the speakers depending on which...

My whole display can be put up (and pulled down) in a day or two but that is a lot of hard work when the sun is blaring, so I put it up over a few weeks working just a few hours in the morning before it gets too hot. When the cyclone hinted at hitting us last year we pulled all the big props...

Hi, How North in North Queensland? With most of us dragging the lights out, testing them and putting them up now would be a great time to visit a few people and see how their displays are put together. Seeing it in the flesh helps make sense of what you see in the manual and drool over in the...

Hi, Trying to make my audio better this year. Previously I used a couple of bluetooth type speakers with line in to avoid lag but it introduced a few problems. I need to run long cables through the garden and I got some hum in the speakers. The hum was most noticeable when the power was off...

I have had similar intermittent problems and they usually turn out to be a faulty pixel, I am assuming a bad solder joint somewhere. I usually stand out and watch the prop and when the failure occurs I get a clue about where the last working pixel is and I push that one out. Watch it some more...

My megatree failed this year after 3 years of running with only minor pixel replacements. All strands (24 by 75) tested before they went up with only the usual 1 or 2 faulty pixels. Stood the tree up and had six pixels fail, followed by another 8 and so on. Started replacing strings, either 50...

Now I have had a good nights sleep I can laugh a little about this. I didn't notice that the little plastic clip on the cable was broken, probably would have heard the click if the neighbour wasn't mowing. Plugged it in got the two network lights to say I had connection. The cable was a bit long...

Duh.... It turned out to be a faulty ethernet cable, only took me most of the night to work it out.

Hi, I updated my PI3 to a 4 and went from FPPv5.x up to FPP7.x Have not changed my network setting on the F16v3 but set up the FPP as below. Ethernet - and Wifi I have tried both IP Forwarding options, and a combination of them and just for thoroughness, one on and one off etc...

For the past few years I have been running the audio of my show using portable 'pill' speakers, powered from the power injection cables (5v) with audio cables running through the yard. Whilst it has worked OK most brands of speakers require turning on each night or selecting aux input. Also once...