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About the channel:
How 2 Pixel (originally known as Bridgeport's Brightest Lights) is a channel with lots of tutorials explaining how to use RGB pixels to make an incredible light show synced with music. You can find tutorials about pixels themselves, their controllers, hardware, software, behind-the-scenes, and many more things related to running a light show with pixels on this channel. So if you run a light show or are looking to run one, then How 2 Pixel is the place to learn how to pixelize it!
About me:
My name is Nicholas Burlarley, I'm 16, and I've been running a light show every Christmas and Halloween season since 2020 (technically since 2019). I program all the lights myself and pay for most of them by mowing lawns during the summer.
For videos of our Christmas and Halloween light shows, check out our other channel Bridgeport's Brightest Lights ua-cam.com/channels/vRl330vOWQAO9yH0LCZavQ.html
How 2 Pixel (originally known as Bridgeport's Brightest Lights) is a channel with lots of tutorials explaining how to use RGB pixels to make an incredible light show synced with music. You can find tutorials about pixels themselves, their controllers, hardware, software, behind-the-scenes, and many more things related to running a light show with pixels on this channel. So if you run a light show or are looking to run one, then How 2 Pixel is the place to learn how to pixelize it!
About me:
My name is Nicholas Burlarley, I'm 16, and I've been running a light show every Christmas and Halloween season since 2020 (technically since 2019). I program all the lights myself and pay for most of them by mowing lawns during the summer.
For videos of our Christmas and Halloween light shows, check out our other channel Bridgeport's Brightest Lights ua-cam.com/channels/vRl330vOWQAO9yH0LCZavQ.html
Setting up Falcon Smart Receivers (Pt.2 of 2) - Software configuration
In this video, we're finishing up our 2 (technically 3) part series all about how to use the new Falcon smart receivers. In this episode, we're looking at the software configuration and how to set up the receivers in Xlights, as well as on your V4 and V5 Falcon controller's web interfaces. We also take a look at how to use Xlights to our advantage and have it do all the controller's configuration for us using the upload output feature. All useful things to help you become a differential receiver wizard! Feel free to use the timestamps below to skip to whatever part of the video you want to see.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro skit
01:21 - Welcome to the smart receivers series
02:51 - Today's video topics
04:54 - How to set up receivers for a controller in Xlights + F16v4 examples
22:16 - Xlights receiver setup examples for an F16v5
24:25 - Xlights receiver setup examples for an F48v4/v5
31:21 - Setting up receivers on your controller's web interface
32:57 - Uploading the controller's configuration from Xlights
35:28 - Manually setting up the controller's configuration
45:24 - Final useful tips for smart receivers
48:57 - Finishing up
Thanks for watching! If you enjoy the videos and would like to help support the channel, please feel free to leave a like and subscribe for more light show content!
For more information about the Bridgeport's Brightest Lights light show (the show I run) or to see it in person, visit our Facebook page and UA-cam channel here: www.Facebook.com/BridgeportsBrightestLights
www.youtube.com/@BridgeportsBrightestLights1
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro skit
01:21 - Welcome to the smart receivers series
02:51 - Today's video topics
04:54 - How to set up receivers for a controller in Xlights + F16v4 examples
22:16 - Xlights receiver setup examples for an F16v5
24:25 - Xlights receiver setup examples for an F48v4/v5
31:21 - Setting up receivers on your controller's web interface
32:57 - Uploading the controller's configuration from Xlights
35:28 - Manually setting up the controller's configuration
45:24 - Final useful tips for smart receivers
48:57 - Finishing up
Thanks for watching! If you enjoy the videos and would like to help support the channel, please feel free to leave a like and subscribe for more light show content!
For more information about the Bridgeport's Brightest Lights light show (the show I run) or to see it in person, visit our Facebook page and UA-cam channel here: www.Facebook.com/BridgeportsBrightestLights
www.youtube.com/@BridgeportsBrightestLights1
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Falcon Pixel Port Sharing with Receivers and Expansions 101
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In today's video, we're taking a look at how pixel port sharing works on Falcon controllers and why we need to know about it. Pixel port sharing is all about how a controller divides up all the pixels it can run across any onboard ports, receivers, and/or expansions attached to the controller. It may seem a little complicated, but it's extremely important to know about when adding expansions or...
Revolutionize Your Light Show with the NEW Smart Receivers! (Pt. 1 of 2)
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In today's video, we're talking all about smart differential receivers! These little boards can connect with an ethernet cable to a controller that supports receivers, and then you can place them up to 250 feet away and run pixels directly on the receiver. This makes it easier than running tons of wire with data boosters, power injection wire, and all that to your pixels. Plus, with these new V...
Welcome to How 2 Pixel! (Channel trailer)
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This is just a channel trailer for the home page of the How 2 Pixel channel! I figured I should finally make an official "welcome video", that way anyone new here can quickly learn what the channel is about and what type of videos they can find here. To jump right into the basics of light shows and RGB pixels, check out this playlist here! ua-cam.com/play/PLvjRyLZVnSzPoYycO_zcEUTEzmNRH53mH.html...
Creating a Separate Light Show Network for your display - LSNWN EP.6
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In today's episode of Light Show Networking with Nick, we take a look at another one of the methods you can use to set up a network for your light display. Specifically, we take a look at how to create an entirely separate network with it's own router just for your light show. This method is great to keep your show network traffic separate from your home network traffic, and you can use a lot m...
Big News!!! My Xlights Sequences are now for sale!
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I wanted to make this video to let everyone know you can now purchase my Xlights sequences used in my show! In the last video, I talked about possibly selling my sequences since numerous people have asked for them. Well, I asked you all for your opinions on whether you think I should or not, and it seems like everyone really wants me to sell them! So all my 2022 and 2023 sequences will be avail...
Unboxing, Upcoming Light Show Plans, and More! - H2P Update
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In today's video, we're taking a break from the Networking series to have an update about things happening here at Bridgeport's Brightest Lights and How 2 Pixel! We're gonna take a sneak peek at some of the details for the upcoming light shows, and also get to unbox a new package! Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:16 - Topics for the video 03:38 - New package unboxing 05:47 - Testing new pixels 09:3...
Linking FPP and Pixel Controllers together via Bridge Method - LSNWN EP.5
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In today's video, we talk about how to link Falcon Player (FPP) on a Raspberry Pi to your pixel controller(s) to allow them to communicate and run your light show! We'll go over everything from the hardware setup, software setup, networking settings, to every last detail to make your setup work. There's a lot of information in this video, so feel free to use the timestamps below to skip to or g...
Different Methods for Setting up a Light Show Network - LSNWN EP.4
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In today's video, we take a look at some of the common methods of setting up your network and light show devices to make them communicate. In the previous episodes, we learned how to connect our devices to a network, but now we're going to highlight some ways to actually make them talk to each other. Then in future episodes, I'll make a video specifically for each method so you can learn all th...
How to Connect to and Access your Pixel Controller's UI - LSNWN EP.3
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In today's episode of LSNWN (Light Show Networking With Nick), we take a look at how to connect a pixel controller to a network, then how to find the IP address so we can access the UI (user interface - sometimes called web interface). Once we get to the UI, we set a static IP address so we know where to go to access the controller in the future. Make sure to watch part 2 of this series first b...
Connecting a Raspberry Pi with FPP to a Network - LSNWN EP.2
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In today's episode of Light Show Networking with Nick or, LSNWN, we're gonna dive into how to connect our main light show computer, aka, a Raspberry Pi to our network and access it. Connecting to them for the first time can be a little difficult, but this video explains how you can do it, and settings you can change to make it a breeze to connect to it in the future. Originally, this video was ...
What is a Network? How Does it Work? - Light Show Networking EP. 1
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Today marks the beginning of a new series about networking! The goal of this series is to explain how a light show network works, and how you can get all your controllers and computers to communicate to run your light display. However, we first need a basic understanding of what networks are, how they work, and some of the terminology used when talking about networking. So that is what's in tod...
From Spectacular to Storage: Taking Down the 2023 Christmas Light Show
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In today's video, we take a look at how I tore down the 2023 Christmas light show and stored it! When you have a huge light show, it can be hard to figure out how and where you're going to store everything. So hopefully this video will provide some insight as to how I store everything, and maybe even give a few protips to help you! To get your own custom-printed PCB boards for any project, chec...
Reflection of 2023 - Upcoming Plans for 2024 (And Q&A)
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Reflection of 2023 - Upcoming Plans for 2024 (And Q&A)
Behind The Scenes - 2023 Christmas Light Show
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Behind The Scenes - 2023 Christmas Light Show
Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller Tutorial (Pt. 2 of 2) - The Web UI
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Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller Tutorial (Pt. 2 of 2) - The Web UI
Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller Full Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)
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Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller Full Tutorial (Part 1 of 2)
Challenge for Everyone - Helping the Bridgeport Food Pantry
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Challenge for Everyone - Helping the Bridgeport Food Pantry
First look at the new Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller!!!
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First look at the new Falcon F16v5 Pixel Controller!!!
Behind The Scenes - 2023 Halloween Light Show
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Behind The Scenes - 2023 Halloween Light Show
The Halloween Light Show was on the News, Again, Again!!!
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The Halloween Light Show was on the News, Again, Again!!!
Adding a Fog Machine to the Light Show!!! | Rockville R1200L Fog Machine
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Adding a Fog Machine to the Light Show!!! | Rockville R1200L Fog Machine
Colorlight 5A-75B Panel Controller Tutorial with LEDvision, FPP & Xlights
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Colorlight 5A-75B Panel Controller Tutorial with LEDvision, FPP & Xlights
P5 Panel Build - Behind the Scenes/Enclosure Build
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P5 Panel Build - Behind the Scenes/Enclosure Build
Mastering Universes & Channels Setup in Xlights, FPP, and Controllers
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Mastering Universes & Channels Setup in Xlights, FPP, and Controllers
Xlights Full Tutorial for Beginners (Updated 2023)
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Xlights Full Tutorial for Beginners (Updated 2023)
THE PANEL IS ALMOST DONE?! Light Show Update + Bracelets transmitter Firmware Upgrade + More!
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THE PANEL IS ALMOST DONE?! Light Show Update Bracelets transmitter Firmware Upgrade More!
How To Sequence in Xlights & Tips to Make Yours Better!
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How To Sequence in Xlights & Tips to Make Yours Better!
Great video going through it all. Same as @tombonini7393 said for F16v3 & F48 for chaining differential receiver boards: [26:48] [29:52] You can do more/less pixels than 341 pixels per differential board port in A+B+C chaining mode. So long as port <num> A + B + C is not over the maximum set by banking (the slider). Same as how you have explained for the F16v4/F48v4 [27:08]. Very minor thing; F48 max is 1022 pixels per port, since the F48 permanently has 3 banks connected and a bank must be configured for at least 1 pixel. Max of 1024 @ 20fps, can be changed. There's a secret menu in the v3, v4 and v5 Falcon's to adjust many parameters. Not something I suggest for people to play with. But that is how the controller can run a high fame rate like 100fps for those who dare 🤪.
superior job explain all this
No problem, glad it was useful!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!!
Amazing technical skill
Thanks!
Hey could you help me to program because I can't figure it out
I would love to, but I'm very busy with the light show season starting up and have a lot of things on my plate. I have some tutorials though I've posted about programming the lights and sequencing if those would help. Here's a few videos you could check out if you'd like. Hope this helps! ua-cam.com/video/0nojG3zjq1Q/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/xLd35K_e65Q/v-deo.html
Very Kool!!
Nice, thank you.
I used Wi-Fi to connect to all my equipment. So much easier than running cables to my computer. Have an Eero box inside my front door and one by my computer at the other end of my home and everything worked great. I have Frontier 2 gig 2,000/Mbps internet service. Small antenna on each board sends out the signal. Like your videos.
Oh nice! I'm glad that setup works for you. I've tried using wifi before but I don't have antennas for the boards and it's never been reliable for me. However, everyone has different situations and different setups work better for others!
Well explained Good teacher
Would it work?: Instead of bridging raspberry pi’s to my home network WiFi (one to control colorlite card on P4 matrix and one to control F16v4) I am going to create a separate light show network. I will use a separate router for this. I was Thinking I could connect a switch to my light show network router (the router itself doesn’t have enough ports) and run cat6a cables to connect the Pi’s to the switch and then also connect the F16v4 and the colorlite card to the switch. Would everything talk to each other and work? I had some freezing and glitching in last years show and I think is was caused by all the traffic on my home network and the distance my Pi’s are from my home networks WiFi modem. I am running a smaller light show with about 7000 pixels.
Yes, that should work as long as everything is setup to keep the data separate, and you use unicast instead of multicast for your PIs to communicate with the devices. Unicast will send the data only to the IP address you put in whereas multicast sends it everywhere and hopes the right device finds it.
Fantastic! Thanks! In previous years I was running a master/remote type setup. I am looking forward to give this separate light show network method a try this year. Also this will be my first year splitting some stuff up and running some differential receivers. Your videos have helped tremendously! Keep up the great content!
@How2Pixel could I use 1 Pi and FPP to control both the P4 matrix and the F16v4?
From my experiences I would have to say no. I tried to use one pi to control my 5,000ish lights on my F16v5 and also used it to control my 56 P5 panels. However, everything started glitching really bad and the screen would freeze, the lights would freeze, and it would just stop communicating with the controller. So I'd recommend using 2 PIs if you can.
You are really good at this and we all appreciate your help here! We just get frustrated at times!
Your videos get BETTER and BETTER everytime you make one!! Nice job and I cant wait for the next one!! You're bringing more people to the massively growing "PIXEL TORNADO" experience!! 😃
Haha thanks! Glad the videos are useful!!
I wish you would stop referring to the differential receiver jacks as just RJ45 jacks! The Ethernet ports on the controllers are also RJ45 jacks. It might be better to just refer to the "Red" jacks as differential ports and the "Black" jacks as Ethernet ports. It's OK to say that both the differential ports and Ethernet ports can use Ethernet cables, but even better it would be best to refer to the cables as CAT5 or even CAT6 cables.
Great video
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Great video. I was having problems getting this working and your tip on IP forwarding fixed my problem. Thanks
Que buen video gordito... Saludos desde chile CONCHETUM4R3
Very informative. I learned a lot watching this episode. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
The wifi radio runs at the speed of the slowest device. Moving those RasPis (with their slow wifi radios) to their own wifi network was a good move.
How much did all 2000 pixels cost? Did you get some percentage off for buying so many?
At the time it was around $500, but now it would be more around $575ish plus shipping. Where I bought them from you have to buy at least 10,000 to get bulk pricing. However, I've seen some other places where you only need to buy 3,000 pixels for bulk pricing.
You are incorrect on the F48 Ver 3 as far as cascading remotes. It does not force you to allocate an equal number of pixels to each port. It works exactly the same way as the Ver 4 and 5 but with less total pixels and only allowing for 3 boards per string. It does use the weird sliders in the configuration where you need to set the total pixels per port for each bank and every port on that bank will have the same maximum number of pixels but you can allocate whatever number of pixels on each cascaded port that you want to as long as the total doesn't exceed the port maximum. I know this because this is my primary controller and has been for many years. For example, I have port 7a configured for 66 pixels and port 7b configured for 440 pixels and the bank containing that port is configured for 510 pixels and it works as expected. If I were to drop the bank maximum to below 506, both of the port 7 entries light up red indicating that I have exceeded the maximum. What you said may have been the case when the cascading protocol first came out but it is no longer the case now.
Thanks so much for the information! I had heard and seen from other examples before that it forced you to divide them up equally, but maybe like you said that was when the controller first came out.
HELLO, I GOT A QUESTION ON FPP AND THE NETWORK. LAST YEAR I WAS USING WIFI AND IT WASN'T RELIABLE, SO THIS YEAR IM GOING TO USE HARD WIRE. I RAN THE WIRE FROM MY ONE ROOM WHERE THE ROUTER WAS AND RAN IT TO WHERE I HAVE MY SHOW SETUP.MY REAL QUESTION IS WHEN I WAS USING WIFI I RAN A RJ45 FROM MY PI TO THE SWITCH OUTSIDE. HOW CAN I GET THIS TO WORK NOW SEEING I GOT THE RJ45 FROM MY ROUTER TO MY PI? THANKS BOB
So sorry for the late response, I was out of town so I wasn't paying attention to comments. What you could do now is instead of running the RJ45 from your router to your pi, run it from your router to the switch. Then connect another cable from the switch to your pi. Now the pi can have an ethernet connection and still communicate with any devices connected to the switch. Hope this helps!
Nice job.
Nick you nailed it again, great video!
Can i use this with 12v
Yes
My 2023 Halloween display consist of 4 fog machines, a 1100W speaker system, a projector, about 25 atmospheric and normal lights, lots of props, and 8 DMX lights. It uses about 60 amps in total. We use 3-20 amp circuits for all the things in the display and 2-15 amp circuits for the DMX controller, DMX transmitter, the music player, the projector and other miscellaneous things that need power. It has been growing every year and we run it for 2 weeks.
When's part 2 coming out
The ports that connect the cables from your controller to the differential receivers are not Ethernet even though the connectors are RJ45.
Thanks for letting me know! I was aware of that and thought I referred to them as RJ45 jacks, but did I accidentally call them ethernet ports?
Receivers do not need to be connected in order ... regardless of the protocol.
You know, I thought I heard that somewhere before but couldn't remember and for some reason I thought they had to be in order. Thanks for telling me though! I'll make sure to let everyone know about that in part 2 of the video.
Chaining V5 and V4 receivers ... the V5 receivers should be closest to the controller. If you put them after a V4 receiver then there is a chance the v4 receiver will interfere with the return signal as it was never designed for this. As the V4 receiver ports are essentially pas through it may work but i would not rely on it.
Ok, thanks for letting me know! I tested it myself and found it worked for me at least, but I'll make sure to talk about that in the part 2 video.
Have you noticed any issues with having your power extension wires so close to data wires? Lots of people say that they should be separated, but I don't want to do that because it would be so much work! 😅
I have heard lots of people say that before, but I haven't noticed a problem with it. On my main run of cables that come out of the garage, there are 2 AC power extension cords and 2 data wires zip-tied in a giant bunch and there aren't any problems. However, I don't have any low voltage power wire (12 volts DC) for power injection right next to data wires. I have some that are a few inches apart, but not directly next it. I'd assume that also shouldn't cause problems, but I think it depends on which type of wire you have.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with these videos. You really put a lot of work into explaining this hobby. Great job!
Thank you! Glad the video was helpful!
Can any raspberry pie works like the pie 2,3 or has to be the 4
Yes! You can run Falcon Player on a Raspberry Pi Zero, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Thank you!! Super job on this.. great info to have!!
Thank you Nicholas, this is great information 👌
============PLEASE READ!============== I wanted to add a few important things I forgot to mention in this video. First, I show multiple different pictures of receivers in the video, and the colors of the receivers are different in some of the pictures. They are still the same receiver, but depending on where you buy them they may come in black or blue. So don't worry if your receiver is a different color, it still works the same. Second is on the V5 smart receivers, you can also reset the fuses if they're blown by pressing the test button instead of powering off the board or using the web interface on a V5 controller. Finally, just incase I didn't make it clear enough, when setting the mode/ID dial on an SRx2 or SRx4 receiver, the dial should be set to the FIRST ID the receiver would use. I know I talked about SRx2 receivers counting as 2 receivers, and SRx4 ones counting as 4, so you may have been confused on which ID to set it to since they use 2 IDs on the SRx2s and 4 IDs on the SRx4s. You would set the dial to the FIRST ID the receiver uses.
hi there what if i changed my mega tree for more lights would i have to change all my setup in xlights
No, if you just add more strands or lights to the tree and don't drastically change it, everything will be fine. If you have any sequences programmed with the old tree, you will just need to re-render them and Xlights will put the effects on the new design of the tree.
I am currently working on a project where I am building a screen with P3 LED modules, which I aim to control directly using a Raspberry Pi 4. However, I am facing challenges in connecting a receiving card (specifically, the Huidu HD-R712) to the Raspberry Pi 4 to display images stored on the Pi. Could you please provide some guidance on how to achieve this?
Which software are you going to be running on the Pi to communicate with the receiving card? I will admit that I am not the best with these types of projects, and had a hard time trying to figure out how to use the colorlight card. I know how to make it run a panel but nothing really advanced with it.
@@How2Pixel Thank you Nick for replying I am planning to connect the Raspberry Pi with a synchronous sending card, which will then be connected to a receiving card and finally to the display modules. In this setup, I do not want to manually add content to play on platforms like LEDVision. As it will be difficult to automate, instead I am thinking of playing the content on the video player on the Pi, and using the synchronous sending card to display it on the modules. Could you please tell me if this is feasible or if there is a better way to achieve this?
I really wish I could help you out and answer your questions, but I'm not really sure how to run the colorlight card with any other software besides LEDvision or Falcon Player, the software I had on my raspberry pi. I'm sure it's possible, but I don't know how since I don't have much experience with that type of stuff. Have you tried looking online for some other tutorials that might help with what you're looking to do?
Nick, you do a great job of explaining things. I have watched many other videos on setting up the Raspberry Pi and was about to give up ever making the thing work.
I'm so glad the video was helpful! Thank you for watching!
how do i add more songs in the same sequence? I currently have 1 song finished but would like to add more songs. Thanks
You would like to add multiple songs into just one sequence? This is possible but I don't usually recommend it for a couple of reasons. First, when you're playing your show, if you want to skip to a certain song, you can no longer select the sequence since it's all in one now, so you'd have to wait for it to play to get there. Second, changing one little effect can cause you to have a larger render time since it has to render ALL the parts in the one sequence. But if you are ok with this, the way you have to do it is edit the audio track and combine all the songs you want into one mp3 file. There are some different tools to do this but I recommend audio-joiner.com/ because it's the most simplest. So just join all the songs you want in one sequence into one audio file.
@@How2Pixel ah gotcha that makes sense. so the best option would be for me to create a new sequence for each song and run x lights schedule
Yes, if you're planning on running an actual show during the Christmas season (or whatever your show is for), this would be best. Now if it's just a one time thing or you won't be running it much, you could just run the sequences straight from Xlights, but it doesn't work without someone opening the sequence file(s) and pushing the start button. Additionally, if you don't want your computer being tied up running Xschedule, you could buy a Raspberry Pi for a little under $100 and set that up to automatically run your show with Falcon Player (FPP).
I would love to see a video explaining the cube model and its use for peace stakes. I am having a hard time getting it to look right on my layout.
Hmm that's a good idea, I've never thought of using the cube model for peace stakes. The only problem I would see is that the peace stakes would look less random which is sort of what I like, but some people don't mind them being in perfect order. What are you having a hard time doing to make them look right?
@@How2Pixel I can't get them to look organized like ron howard did in his video. Maybe because i have not yet tried 3d setup. ua-cam.com/video/zu3UAmTun_k/v-deo.html
Oh I would definitely say that's probably the problem. In 2d I think you would only see the very front of the stakes, making the back ones hidden and it won't look right. If you can, try setting it up in 3d.
Please can you make a video on how to set up a smart receiver
Yes! I'm working on it right now as we speak haha
Question I have 4 smart receivers, one is for small mega tree 8ports but on xlight it take up 8ports trying to figure out on how to add the rest when that smart receiver take up 8ports iam little confused I have falcon f16v5,4 SRX1,1 SRX2
I'm a little bit confused so I have a question. Do you have all 4 SRx1 receivers and the SRx2 receiver on one chain? Or are they separated across multiple chains? The SRx2 receiver is technically 2 normal receivers put onto one board. So when you set it up in xlights, the SRx2 receiver should look like 2 receivers, and they should be receiver A and receiver B unless you have other receivers before it on the chain.
@How2Pixel I have two SRx1 chained together, but my tree copies the same sequence as my matrix/arch. I have 4 ports going into the matrix and 1 port going into the tree PORT 17,18,19,20A INTO MATRIX/ ARCH and 17B INTO my small mini tree does that make since or iam I doing something wrong
@How2Pixel my first show has 5k pixels, one main controller, and 5 smart receivers
Ok that makes a little bit more sense, so you have 2 receivers, one is going to the matrix/arch and all 4 ports are being used there. Then you have another receiver for your tree but only 1 port is being used there right? And you said on xlights your tree is trying to take up 8 ports correct? If you only want the tree to use 1 port, then you need to go into the model settings on the layout tab, and set the string count to 1. You'll then have to increase the strands per string, that way your tree is the same size still. Did this help or am I still misunderstanding you?
Great video. I have the same controller as yours and was wondering if there's any way to keep playing files even when the computer is not connected. Could you help me with that?
Glad the video was useful! I think there is a way to do that, but I'm not 100% sure. I haven't done many projects with the colorlight card other than just running it for my panel, so I don't think I could be much help to you. Have you tried looking online for a user manual or maybe tutorials that show how to do it?
@@How2Pixel I managed to find some videos on the subject, thank you for your attention.
Great! Glad you were able to figure it out.
Hey Nick. Are you using any data boosters in your light show? If so, how many and where did you place them? Thanks for your time.
I don't think I used any this past year, but in other years I have had to use some. Figuring out where to place them can be tricky because lots of people say different things about where they should go. Some say the boosters should be at the start of a data wire, some say after, and some say in the middle. I did a lot of research about this and found some helpful presentations from Keith Westly about where they should be put. Data boosters are mainly made to fix a data signal to extend it farther, so they normally work best right before a prop or in the middle of a long data wire. However, with specific controllers, especially Falcons, data boosters actually work better if you put it at the start of a data wire. There's a couple reasons why, but I'm not sure if you're interested in hearing about all it. In the end, I would start by putting a data booster right before the prop, but also test it in multiple locations. Even using a data booster at the beginning and end of a strand will help it more. So just use it where it works. Hope this helps!
hi, thank you for your videos! Could you tell me if we can run a test sequence on the SRx1 smart receiver card (longe range)? via an input for example. Thanks a lot
Glad the videos are useful! To answer your question, do you mean connecting the receiver directly to a Raspberry Pi or a computer to run the sequence off there? And have it go straight into the receiver? Sadly, you cannot do that and it will damage the receiver if you do. The receiver must be connected into a controller since it doesn't have the power to convert a sequence into pixel data itself. The controller does that, then it sends any pixel data a receiver needs over a cat 5 cable to it. So you could run a test through the controller, and have it go to the receiver, but the receiver itself cannot run a test sequence.
@@How2PixelYes! I wanted to know if there was a test button on the card. It's already good to be able to send a test sequence via the transmitter card. Thank you for your answer. 💪
Yes there is a test button on all smart receivers! The button will test all the pixels that are hooked onto that receiver.
What mega tree base/pole did you use to make it?
For the base, I just used 2, 4x4 boards that were around 8 feet long each, and then cut out a piece of the middle in each so I could crisscross them. The pole is made of metal fencing pipe that's 1 and 5/8in in diameter. I took 2 pieces since one was not long enough, connected them together (since they come with the ends slightly smaller to allow you to put them together), and then put 2 safety pins in the part where they join just to make sure it won't come apart. If you'd like to see more about how it's put together, I showed the whole tree in my latest behind the scenes video here ua-cam.com/video/VXcz6pMZlYc/v-deo.html . If you skip 33 minutes into the video, that's where I show the mega tree setup.