Recent content by thewanderingpine

Welcome! If you share a link to the specific trees you bought - I can probably point out the model in xLights (it will be under EFL or Boscoyo). In terms of what you need from here. The 101 guide is a good place. ( https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/AusChristmasLighting-101 ) Your...

You should probably put that in a seperate post. I also would not suggest a LOR/ribbon light setup to someone new and getting started.

I've used wago plugs (or perhaps should say "wago style" from aliexpress) and they work well.

@Domestos —- looks like you might be in luck. Ink Creations now stock some: https://auschristmaslighting.com/threads/ink-creations-pixel-pixel-hardware-supplier-in-australia.16945/#post-143579

so Ink Creations does sometimes stock pixels, but I believe they are currently out of stock. At one point ETOP claimed to have an AU warehouse - not sure if they are still doing that. There are also options on Amazon that are shipping from Aus. But everything else is pretty much just out of...

So https://piptree-designs-108285.square.site/product/Mega-Tree/57 is the usual go-to in Australia -- but I believe @BooY has said that he won't be able to do up any more before Christmas. You might be able to find a local meta place to do something for you... Or could look at a seed pixel...

Outdoor access point. POE cameras. Outside power on dedicated circuits you can go crazy on. Eaves is a key one. But Think about where in your yard (front and back) you might want 240V power. Moving Heads? Bubble/Snow machines on the front fence? where are your controllers? etc.

I went the UniFi route and it’s working fine. It’s worth noting that the controller is probably needed once (to set it up) and then never again. So if you’re comfortable spinning up a VM/pi/HA/etc for that — then you can get away with it. But I’m not going to tell you it’s the only good choice.

But it did “fix” that when edited in the Baldrick Ui. (Assuming I read the message correctly) I wonder if just needed to upload the controller settings for the xLights testing.

This feels like you might have connected to backup data instead of primary and have an off-by-one error. Can you light up pixel 1 in RED, pixel 2 in Green, pixel 3 in Blue and then see how the first 3 pixels light up? I'm wondering if the red one will be missing - and thus when you get to the...

(If someone with more graphic design skills than me wants to a) take a crack and a great logo and b) publicly grant the permission around using it..... that sounds like a pretty good option to me)

From the controller side -- Baldric, FPP and WLED all have local effects/controls for driving pixels during the other 11 months of the year. And schedules for turning it on/off. And then will connect into a show network to take DDP/e1.31. For extra credit -- you could look at hooking up a...

There are certainly people using twinkly lights with xlights…. I’ve never done it, but I know it’s possible.

Per the edit to the original post and my quick googling — it’s a 3 wire protocol with no clock (I fully admit I could be wrong here — never heard of it before today.)

Yeah - I was surprised when I didn't find support in WLED for it. It seems to pickup the new protocol variants pretty quickly (somewhat expected as the main open source pixel controller) - but still has a bunch of gaps in old ones. @domhodgson - since you were asking about pixel variants that...