Ok. I'm trying to do some planning and need to ask some questions so I can go a little further with the plan before making any purchases.
I'm thinking for the first year to go with something a little smaller, perhaps a few mini trees and candy canes and making use of my existing string lights so some renard outputs as well to make them do some blinky stuff.
I'm thinking for the first year to go with something a little smaller, perhaps a few mini trees and candy canes and making use of my existing string lights so some renard outputs as well to make them do some blinky stuff.
- Thinking ahead and trying to not force myself to be limited if and when I make changes and additions, what would you recommend for controllers? I'm mainly looking to decide between something like the falcon boards or something that is using a R PI + Pi hat / beaglebone + hat.
- I'd like to minimize the amount of cords and wires all over the place, do these controllers (and xlights) support something like the main controller being e.g. in the garage, while daughterboards get their data wirelessly and I just need to get power to them instead of power + cat 5?Assuming something like this is possible, thoughts / experience with it?
- Let's say I do a 16 / 50 megatree. When buying lights, is it best if I get strings of 50 pixels, or would e.g. a couple strings of 300 and some 50s work too? Is there an advantage to going one way or the other? Save channels on controller for expansion? If I go with strings of 50, can they be daisy chained / put in series if I need channels later down the line?