Connecting xLights to Controller Wirelessly

[Max Kabilafkas]

Hi

This is my second year doing a pixel setup and I'm wondering if there is a cleaner way to connect my laptop to my controller when running a sequence. As of right now I have a pixlite 16 mkII and I connect my laptop directly into it via the Ethernet port on the board.

Ideally I would like to have my laptop inside without having to run a cable out to the controller.

Are there wireless adaptors that will allow me to do this?

Thanks in advance

 

[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 running FPP, and then connect that to your show with ethernet, as well as connecting it wirelessly to your home Wi-Fi network, that way you can access the show player to start/stop the show over Wi-Fi, and not compromise your display