johnson8ryley
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My 2 cents on how I would tackle this
I would have multiple Raspberry Pi's running FPP that on power-up run a predefined playlist of your sequences (One Raspberry Pi per "display" you have mentioned) This would narrow down the number of network cables required to run from a switch somewhere else on the property to control these, they would essentially be Plug and play, running from the same power source as the lights.
This should make it easier to manage on a whole, as you would know if that part of the display is not working, it's isolated to only one area, no cables to get tampered with other than the mains supply that I assume will be protected anyway, and much less work for you in terms of running extra wiring, dealing with extra universes etc on the main setup.
I had a similar option Notenoughthoughts. While I am familiar with Raspberry Pi's from my engineering courses, I have no experience using them along with FPP. This is something I could learn of course, but would cost time and hourly pay. I will explore this idea as you're right, having isolated units run by themselves makes the most sense. My plan in my head was to have a cheap computer at each central location running the show. For example the archway will have its own mini computer that controls the arches, isn't connected via networking to the rest of the farm, and turns on automatically and runs the predefined playlist.
The arches may need to be a raspberry pi with FPP as I won't be able to hide a computer in plain sight with regular arches around the farm.
As for the main barn, pixel mega trees, etc. That will be grouped together and ran by a computer with a network switch. Computer should be hidden pretty well and ethernet chords and power supplies will be locked and out of harms way. But FPP for the single arches spread throughout the farm is a great idea @Notenoughlights !