Recent content by merryoncherry

Wow, I have to keep an eye out for that ... the only pixel I can get delivered right now for ~$.17 is plain resistor pixels from ScottLED (USA).

Analysis paralysis, one of my favorite games. There are so many dimensions one can look at: voltage tolerance, brightness, color reproduction (gamma, RGB vs RGBW WW A UV etc), reliability, efficiency, form factor and other mechanical considerations, price, availability, connectors, protocol...

That is entirely true. Other than Ali / manufacturer direct as others have mentioned, the only place for US-based stock seems to be YPS. https://yourpixelstore.com/product/new-yps-duo-pixel-12v/ I run a few thousand of the duos. There are reasons 8208 haven't really taken off, despite...

One option is change the effect to "per preview" instead of "default". You can also rotate the model data but that has its own hazards.

They're 3-wire, not 4-wire? (Maybe xLights needs the usual upload to controller and rerender.)

Light up every 20th one green and every tenth one red or something, that will help you see how many meters/pixels pretty quickly and you won't have to manually count them, except the last few if you care to be that accurate.

I used it once a couple years ago. It was helpful, but the pixels have to show up in the video. I assume in this case half of them are on the back of the tree...

Are they counted or not counted?

I would just take note of which controller ports, and how many pixels per string, and which branch they follow. Then, since this is 2D, make a polyline that follows the branches (on background image) and assign that many pixels. You can assign the counts per polyline segment if it ends up off...

Those are zip tie or (other fastener holes) to keep it from falling out if you remove the tension?

How much free space do you have now?

xlights

That. Everything is near to a controller, and I use the controller ports for power, and if you are doing that you may as well send data too... so, I might have split a dozen ports to get below 300 (spooky tree, fan arches, radio, come to mind) and this was easy because I used standard 50- and...

60 :-)

Well, it's finally done. The show runs at 100 FPS (pay no mind to the P5 panel). Please enjoy this glimpse into my questionable life choices. At some point, I will write about the adventure in some detail on my site.