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12mm holesaw bit, cuts nicely and cleanly - just be mindful of drilling too near the edges of corflute and that if you don't have a drill press, using a handheld drill will get a little tiring after 50 or so holes.

You seem to have more success than I did with a drill bit; my attempts really mangled the corflute. I eventually went with a 12mm holesaw instead; it gave me a cleaner finish, especially toward the edges of the corflute.

ok got it. Y'all helping me not fry myself, so I'm grateful.

Can I wire these up to mains power, via a power brick from another set of lights? I have plenty of bricks to spare. I'm not fond of solar as they tend not to be as bright.

Ok. See? Still learning - I will take these down and dispose of them. I really appreciate the responses and am glad I posted about them.

Here you go. This is from another set (albeit multicoloured - so a little more complicated than the white ones I have in my previous photo?).

Ok, so … in my slow approach to learning the how-to’s of smart pixels, I’m happily applying some knowledge I’ve gained to my dumb RGB display (mainly soldering multiple strings to run off the same controller / power brick combo). My problem here is the two sets of netted lights I have on my...

Thanks. I'll have another crack tonight. BTW, where's the link for the xlights zoom room? I'm not sure I've seen it.

Still can't seem to manage to connect to the interface via Wifi. What's wrong with these settings? Per the below, I'm keying in the Wifi network IP of 192.168.1.175 into my browser but the page fails to open. Do I need to set the Gateway and DNS for the Wifi connection and, if so, to what...

Hey all - thank you so much for the responses. I've connected successfully to my controller's interface after plugging it in directly to my router via Ethernet. Came up straight away. Am now watching the videos y'all linked to (hopefully) better understand what I'm doing. Only question now...

My computer has no native ethernet port, so I'm using a USB-C to ethernet dongle. I've tried configuring the IP address on the dongle's connection; I know which one that is because it disappears from my computer's network list when I unplug it.

Am still not having much luck. On my computer, I've manually configured the IPv4: xxx.nnn.1.30 Submask: 255.255.255.0 On the controller, a static IP: xxx.nnn.1.50 Submask: 255.255.255.0 Then on my computer's browser, am keying in the controller's IP. (xxx.nnn are the same values for both IPs.)

Thanks Lawrence. I tried hooking up my computer to the controller via an Ethernet cable but that also was unsuccessful. I’ll have to look further into that. Yes, seems I need to tinker with my computer’s ipv4 settings - all new territory for me. Good to know that out of the box, the controller...

I'm so far unsuccessful in lighting up strings of pixels from my F16v4 controller. Well, that's partially incorrect; what I have is two strings of 125x 12V pixels that I've connected to the F16v4; the first 100x pixels on each string light up just fine when I put the controller into Test mode...

Awesomely impressive. And you know how to throw together a great video, too! Well done :)