Recent content by Notenoughlights

You will find a lot of users here would suggest that you don't go down the Wi-Fi route, as cable is king when it comes to light shows, you won't experience stutter, lag, latency, dropped frames with a cable, however you are likely to with Wi-Fi. If you really must, you could try a raspberry pi...

Off refresh does send data, "off" data. Might be an issue if xlights is sending live data however, and that may be taking over.

Enable off-refresh, it's under the led setup menu where you add/remove led outputs. - saying this as you mentioned WLED.

WiFi is best to be avoided if at all possible when running larger numbers of lights, if you can hardwire to your controllers, you will get a more positive experience. Wifi boosters only boost what they can get their hands on. If they get a bad signal, they'll be boosting that bad signal.

Most floodlights won't do much till it's dark, could try the 30W ones from Ray. I searched for "Flood" on his store page, came up with a lot of results that could work for you...

Has unplugging everything and then plugging back in potentially triggered them to get new IP addresses from the DHCP server (probably your router) assuming nothing was set to static before hand.

Oh it can work just fine, though I doubt anyone will be willing to risk their insurance for it vs a commercial grade system.

For $100 you could be up and running with a couple of hundred leds to deck out a few bushes, letterbox, front fence etc or even your Christmas tree. Seed pixels are insanely cheap (think about 6-8 cents per led) and a controller like mentioned above esp32 etc, if DIY isn't your thing, I would...

I don't want to come across harsh or anything but buying a setup will be 100% more difficult than setting your own up, as you now need to learn what the last owner of that light display had done/used/wired etc. Starting from the beginning learning and adding a little bit at a time will be the...

I bought a motor driver, essentially an H bridge with fancy controls. Hooked to an esp32 running wled, as it can now drive h bridges, I use it to run about 40 sets of string lights from one single power supply. Really cuts down on the multiboards lol

I bought one of these irons way back 2013-14ish https://www.jaycar.co.nz/goot-240v-15w-240v-soldering-iron/p/TS1430 has been going strong with the original tip all these years. I would certainly buy another one. Not the best if you're wanting portability like a lot of the usb-PD powered irons...

I'd be installing 3 phase.. It's getting to the point a single phase connection isn't enough Pull boxes/pits in the ground between various parts in the yard with lids that can be closed while having cables exit. large conduits between them, and one to at least a cupboard in the garage for easy...

I've got a TP-Link Omada EAP225-Outdoor access point mounted to a pole at the front of my drive, I can pick that up at the end of my street, although it's useless at that range because my phone can't transmit that far, it still has great reach. I use that mainly during Christmas when I'm out...

Another Kiwi, awesome. If you're wanting to start out with something simple, take a look at WLED. There are many available products that run this software, the Quinled range (https://quinled.info/) is very beginner friendly. That is just a controller, it is possible to use this with xlights...

I've been looking for something the same, came across this site here. https://backlitledsign.com/products/3d-metal-backlit-residential-address-sign