Recent content by Martin Mueller

Can I throw ESPixelStick V3 HW with the V4 SW into the mix. The base card has the differential DMX output built in. You can send DDP, E1.31 data or use fseq files to play your effects.

TheChristmasLightGuy on discord has a video series that include setting up and using the ESPixelStick V4 software on a number of platforms. The ESP V4 SW does not support playing music nor is it intended to work as a show player. One of your show player guidelines is: Your show player...

ESPS V4 does not today support a REST API. You would need to implement such a thing.

ESPixelStick can be easily expanded with more button support. But you would need to program it yourself. At this point I am 6 projects behind. Trying to get Web based ESPS flasher working.

The issue is not the number of buttons, it is the number of available GPIO lines. The Default D1 Mini would not have enough GPIO lines to do what you need. The ESP32_epspv3 image (which works with the ESPS V3 base card) would give you the GPIOs you need. As for the Software, that is easily...

I had nothing but trouble with those things while I was adding them to the ESPixelStick platforms list. In addition to having a boot up race condition, they do not have a proper nodemcu interface making programming them less pleasant. I also use over 50 buck converters in my show. They drop my...

As someone quoted me (correctly), in your diagram, in addition to the heavy gauge V- wire going from your PSU to the pixels, you need a V- wire that goes from the V- line on the level shifter to the V- on the first piel (yes, FOUR wires going to the first pixel) and while I assume the V- wire...

Yup. ESPixelStick V4 is a full featured FPP Remote device that stores and plays fseq files locally. That allows FPP enabled show players (FPP and xLights) to send the data once and then reduce the data on the wifi to an occasional sync message. This reduces Network load to almost nothing. It...

FYI: ESPixelStick supports the WT32 boards and allows you to connect an SD card to the board so you can run in remote mode.

Cool, one possible error spot fixed. I am not an xLights guy so someone with more xLights experience will need to help you beyond this point.

Before using xLights, have you used the FPP display test functionality? You should get it working on the FPP without xLights. In this way you divide the problem into smaller sections. If it does not work directly from fpp then you may have a wiring error.

Interesting. Mine from hi-letgo (ok 3 years old) worked fine.

Adafruit makes sure they are selling reliable usb to serial devices. On Amazon, Hi-Letgo and DTECH would be the vendors I look at.

Tis has happened before. Some manufacturers are using pirated designs that report incorrectly. I tend to only purchase adapters that have genuine FTDI usb-to-serial chips on them

For PixelStick you will need to manually reboot with GPIO-0 held low three times.