Hi guys
first post on the site, nice to meet you all.
Hope you can help with this issue I have. Please dumb your answers down as I am very new to all this xmas light stuff.
I wanted to put lights on our roof ridges this year so I have bought 4 x sets of these:
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When I bought them I asked what a suitable controller would be and I was pointed to this one:
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The controller is the issue I am having, I literally have no idea how to use it. It is wired up but every setting in this controller is for a rectangle shaped LED display, I cant see anything there which is for strings. I found some wording in the manual which says to download a DXF layout for non-ractangle displays - I have no idea what that is and if that is the issue I currently have ?
I was kind of just expecting to wire everything up then just use the controller to change the colour of the lights etc, this appears to be way over my head.
So my question is, is the controller I have far to advanced, not the right one etc, and if so is there one you could recommend for this set up that a simpleton like me could use ?
I have 4 sets of 50 node string lights (200 total). I am not sure if I will need all 200 to be connected, im thinking I will only need to connect 3 (150 total)
Hope you are all having a great weekend and thanks in advance to anyone who replies
cheers,
Jamie
first post on the site, nice to meet you all.
Hope you can help with this issue I have. Please dumb your answers down as I am very new to all this xmas light stuff.
I wanted to put lights on our roof ridges this year so I have bought 4 x sets of these:

50nodes Addressable RGB C9 DC12V WS2811 LED Christmas Pixel String Light 15cm/20cm/25cm/30cm Spacing Black Case Black Wire IP68 - AliExpress 39
Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com
When I bought them I asked what a suitable controller would be and I was pointed to this one:

SP801E WiFi Art-Net SPI Pengendali LED untuk WS2812B SK6812 UCS1903 TM1804 Piksel Strip LED dan Matriks; IOS Android DC5-24V - AliExpress 39
Smarter Shopping, Better Living! Aliexpress.com
The controller is the issue I am having, I literally have no idea how to use it. It is wired up but every setting in this controller is for a rectangle shaped LED display, I cant see anything there which is for strings. I found some wording in the manual which says to download a DXF layout for non-ractangle displays - I have no idea what that is and if that is the issue I currently have ?
I was kind of just expecting to wire everything up then just use the controller to change the colour of the lights etc, this appears to be way over my head.
So my question is, is the controller I have far to advanced, not the right one etc, and if so is there one you could recommend for this set up that a simpleton like me could use ?
I have 4 sets of 50 node string lights (200 total). I am not sure if I will need all 200 to be connected, im thinking I will only need to connect 3 (150 total)
Hope you are all having a great weekend and thanks in advance to anyone who replies
cheers,
Jamie