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[QUOTE="Richie4540, post: 78650, member: 24278"] Brett, welcome to the fun, I would recommend you attend the mini in Sydney before buying anything, as this will help guide your decisions, personnally I think if you are starting out you should head towards pixels as it just give you so much flexibility later, and don't try to do your whole house in the first year, just stick with a mega tree or a single feature, this will allow you to get it done in time this year and then you can build up in the following years. For a system you will need Power supply - 12 volt 600 watt should get you started Rasbrry Pi with Falcon Pi Player installed- this will run the show, this is probably the cheapest thing in a system and takes a bit to set up, you could get this know and start trying to set it up and when you go to the Sydney mini take some questions along if you are having issues, Pixel controller - this receives info from the raspberry and runs the lights, have a look at the falcon controller. Pixels - 2811 pixels in 12volt seem to work well, selecting 12v to begin helps with voltage drop issues in wiring, also doing a mega tree means all the cable lengths can be short and it's one less issue to deal with when you are still learning all the other stuff. Wires/ housing , you will need to make some kind of box to put the controller into and then connect the pixels to, along with wires to each display part. Networking switch - each piece plugs into this to allow the communication to happen, I suggest you learn how to set static IP's on each piece of gear and mark them, also check out an app called Fing which can scan your network and list connected devices and tell you their IP addresses. Laptop/desktop, get X lights installed, this is how you generate the light show and can absorb a fair bit of time, for my first year I didn't worry about trying to time lights to music, I just made up a sequence that changed every 39 secs, and went for about 5 mins which the. Looped over and over. Hope this helps, even if you stay away from pixels you will still most of this you just would have a different controller. Richie, [/QUOTE]
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