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[QUOTE="Whitey-, post: 134317, member: 39146"] Since then, I've reflected and understood my errors. My biggest learnings were: [B]Prop work takes time to do right[/B] I was technically able to get a lot of props pushed out quickly (20-60 minutes per prop from start to finish), but they were relatively fragile. Multiple times I can across the issue of using the incorrect male/female cable, not considering the ingress/egress point for daisy chaining the prop, etc. Being under the pump leads to 'good enough' soldering and iffy hot glue when you don't have time to set things correctly or let them cool. [B]Spend the time to do the power and data cabling correctly[/B] When I was desperately trying to save my show at 9pm, the cable management of my power really caused me grief. Because I'd added on as I considered things, I wasn't able to cable manage correctly. Because I'd been testing different methods of joining, there were a lot of unexpected tight and loose points. I'm now planning to build out proper power boxes with mounted boards inside the box. I also am considering continuing using ethernet (for data, but potentially for L/N with two strands bonded) for cleanliness of cabling, maybe mounting some RJ45 jacks on each of my controller boards so I can plug in as normal. The other end will likely connect to an interim board whose purpose is to break out data and combine with power before outputting via Ray Wu pigtail. Maybe these will be a next year v2 version. I'd also like to work out some form of cable management arm (a'la Dell folding arms at the back of rackmount servers) to handle slack. My experience doing live broadcast events (of which I've done quite a few) is not matter how well planned things are, you'll often need to do [I]something[/I] during or just before the show to keep things running. Having clean and easy access to my solder points, controller and power is essential [B]WiFi controllers are fine[/B] [I]Watch this space and see if I flip on this opinion 😂[/I] I did end up having 3 outputs on my ESP32 controller, and then played the show via FPP on a Raspberry Pi (with some $5 desktop speakers plugged into the 3.5mm jack). Neither of these had external antennas and everything was WiFi driven, and I had perfect signal with no packet loss, and this was on a shared network. When I run my Christmas show, I plan to deploy an enterprise grade 2.4GHz AP outside mounted on the wall with a dedicated network and likely no backhaul to my internet (or at least VLANed off). These will be locked to specific narrow width channels with low/no other devices on those channels. I know there's a big aversion to WiFi, but I wonder if that's a combination of people using consumer grade gear and not understanding WiFi well beyond the setup wizard. I hope that doesn't come across patronising, but I have run WiFi at events with 10-20,000 members of the public around and 50+ other vendors all with their own noisy APs. If you use decent gear and you configure it correctly, it should be just as reliable as ethernet, outside of any hostile actors. That said, I've also ordered 4x WT32-ETH01s (pre-connected ethernet ESP32s), so we'll see if I have to eat my words 😂 [/QUOTE]
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