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Is there a "Begginers Basic Light Kit"?
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[QUOTE="Teej710, post: 115326, member: 34341"] Hi, I'm very new to this too and I was looking for a similar basic setup, so I could try using addressable pixel light strings, controller software etc. etc. I put the following basic kit together very cheaply, using Amazon & Ebay. wemos D1 R1 ESP8266 board 5 GBP 12v 2 amp CCTV power supply 7 GBP WS2811 50 LED pixel string 17 GBP I visited the ESPixelstick website [URL='https://github.com/forkineye/ESPixelStick']GitHub - forkineye/ESPixelStick: Firmware for the ESPixelStick[/URL] and downloaded the ESPixelstick v3.2 firmware zip file. Unzipped it into a folder. Plugged the wemos D1 R1 into my laptop, which created a COM Port, then ran the ESPSFlashTool.jar program, in the ESPixelStick folder. Added my network SSID & password, a hostname for my wemos D1 to use, then left everything else as default (see screenshot1). Pressed Upload to program the wemos DI with the ESPixelstick firmware. I then connected to the new wemos D1 pixel controller website via the hostname i gave it or the IP address associated to it (see screenshot2), using a web browser, to check it works. I disconnected the wemos D1 from my laptop and attached it to the pixel string via the 3 pin connector,. +ve (pstring) to Vin Pin (wemos), data (pstring) to TX1/GPIO2 pin (wemos) and -ve (pstring) to Gnd pin (wemos). Finally, I connected the 12v +ve & -ve power supply to the separate power tails on the pixel string. The 12v power supply powered both the ws2811 pixel string and the wemos D! ESPixelString controller. Then using the effects tab on the controller webpage (see screenshot3) , I then tested the whole basic display. Finally, I downloaded the latest xlights software and defined the wemos controller in it (see screenshot4). I've used this simply setup to build several different test props/models, as well as face mouth movement sequences in xlights. Since this initial setup, I've connected and controlled a second ws2811 12v 50pcs pixel string (channels 151-300), directly to first string (channels 1-150), using the setup described above. All working perfectly A basic kit for less than 30 GBP. Hope this helps. Teej [ATTACH alt="screenshot1.jpg"]16368[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="screenshot2.jpg"]16369[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="screenshot3.jpg"]16370[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="screenshot4.jpg"]16371[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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