BradsXmasLights
WiFi Interactive
Lets start with a video....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6GfVCtyP30
This simple test was wired as:
- 4 panels chained off Output #1
- 2 "missing" panels on Output #8 - that don't physically exist
BBB Panel config:
3x2 arrangement without outputs as
Outputs:
O8/P2 O1/P4 O8/P1
O1/P3 O1/P2 O1/P1
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]As far as BBB/FPP is concerned, it see's as it as 6 panels still. We just trick it by sending the non-existent panels to unused port on the octoscroller.[/font]
Then configure the sequencer as a 96x32 pixel grid (as it all 6 panels were there), then design your matrix content accordingly to miss the 'missing' panels!
Effectively there'll be quite a few channels going to waste for the missing panels within the sequencing software - but at the end of the day it doesn't matter once the sequence is saved to the BBB & MultiSync'd to a master FPP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6GfVCtyP30
This simple test was wired as:
- 4 panels chained off Output #1
- 2 "missing" panels on Output #8 - that don't physically exist
BBB Panel config:
3x2 arrangement without outputs as
Outputs:
O8/P2 O1/P4 O8/P1
O1/P3 O1/P2 O1/P1
[font=verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif]As far as BBB/FPP is concerned, it see's as it as 6 panels still. We just trick it by sending the non-existent panels to unused port on the octoscroller.[/font]
Then configure the sequencer as a 96x32 pixel grid (as it all 6 panels were there), then design your matrix content accordingly to miss the 'missing' panels!
Effectively there'll be quite a few channels going to waste for the missing panels within the sequencing software - but at the end of the day it doesn't matter once the sequence is saved to the BBB & MultiSync'd to a master FPP.