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Awesome! Thank You!!!.Kolin,
Not an expert here by any stretch of the imagination, I went from A/C lights to LED RGB's last year, when controllers were really hard/almost impossible to find. I did however manage to get hold of some ESP32 boards, running WLED.
There is no reason at all that you cannot build your own controllers.
I purchased some CG1500 cases, some meanwell PSU's some power distribution boards, a few ethernet switches & connectors etc. and built my own controllers. If you take it slowly, you should have no problems building exactly what you need.
Smaller ESP32 boards with 2,3,4,6,8 ports/outputs are a good size to be able to put out to control small clusters of props, if you need to do that sort of thing.
You can connect the ESP's via WiFi or with ethernet, so pretty flexible on that front as well, I am not putting down the big boy controllers, I just could not get any, so had to think of a way to achieve my goals. If I could have got Falcons, I would have purchased those, but the ESP32's and WLED did not let me down at all.
I am attaching a few pics so you can see what is possible with a little time and effort. Attaced are pics of a six port and eight port controller, with the six port controllers, I used the two spare distribution board ports as power injection feeds, if required.
I am sure you will get loads of feedback for the pros & cons of building your own controllers, from people much more knowledgable than me.
Good luck
I did my first light show last year (2022) and couldn't find the "big" controllers. I ended up doing my whole (small) show with five ESP32's running WLED.
To reply to this, i created my light show this year, with 2 ESP32s, but i had problems with 2 out of every 3 ESP32s. I could install WLED, but 2/3 quit and i could not revive them. They would not even take a blank sketch. WLED works superb for the price, when it works on the arduino. Any ideas why my ESP32s quit?I did my first light show last year (2022) and couldn't find the "big" controllers. I ended up doing my whole (small) show with five ESP32's running WLED.