Very cool idea! Just a tip, it's not a great idea to power a d1mini using the 5v pin, it's supposed to be a lowish current output only. It will work for while, but it's not regulated like the mini usb input is. Eventually one of the components on the board (maybe a small diode?) gives up, burns out, and then your D1 is useless. I found that out the hard way as one of mine worked for about 2 weeks (constantly on in an alarm project) then fried itself.
Hi there, realise this video is a little old - any chance you'd be prepared to give some advice on how to do the above but to a simple DMX port instead of over Wifi? We have one at School and I'd like to plug it into our system and control it. The smoke machine is just as simple in terms of either on/off on the IEC remote (simple contact depress button for activation)... :)
Very Cool. I was searching for a new DMX fog machine and found your video. Thinking now I might just convert my existing units. Is there a way a wemos board that I could directly connect to my falcon controler (DMX side) instead of using wifi?
You would use an arduino or some other microcontroller to essential convert a certain value of a DMX channel to fire a relay. You would use most of the code for this but It would receive the DMX stream from the falcon.
Sir if I want to connected to computer to make cloud in specific time( for example in flight sim) when plane get into cloud is this the way to control the fog machine? I appreciate if you let me know.
You need to update and select the board in board manager. randomnerdtutorials.com/how-to-install-esp8266-board-arduino-ide/ follow these steps to get everything to work properly.
Set it to carrage return and cycle thought all the diggerent baud rates. Everything you change the baud rate in serian monitor, reset the wemos till you see English on the serial monitor. When it displays garbage your getting close to the required baud rate.
Great video man. Broke it down to the point even a dummy like me could do it. Great job.
Easy as pie
I have been looking for a cheap solution to control some dumb Christmas lights. Just tried it out and it works great. Thanks!
Very cool idea!
Just a tip, it's not a great idea to power a d1mini using the 5v pin, it's supposed to be a lowish current output only. It will work for while, but it's not regulated like the mini usb input is. Eventually one of the components on the board (maybe a small diode?) gives up, burns out, and then your D1 is useless. I found that out the hard way as one of mine worked for about 2 weeks (constantly on in an alarm project) then fried itself.
Awesome video Mr. Build It Better. I have a Falcon Controller and would rather use your method for my DMX controlled devices in Xlights. Thanks again.
Glad you found it helpful.
Hi there, realise this video is a little old - any chance you'd be prepared to give some advice on how to do the above but to a simple DMX port instead of over Wifi? We have one at School and I'd like to plug it into our system and control it. The smoke machine is just as simple in terms of either on/off on the IEC remote (simple contact depress button for activation)... :)
Very Cool. I was searching for a new DMX fog machine and found your video. Thinking now I might just convert my existing units. Is there a way a wemos board that I could directly connect to my falcon controler (DMX side) instead of using wifi?
You would use an arduino or some other microcontroller to essential convert a certain value of a DMX channel to fire a relay. You would use most of the code for this but It would receive the DMX stream from the falcon.
I am getting the data output on the serial monitor, however, the relay is not activating when the data is received.
Double check your output pins, some arduinos require the pin number like 3 or 4 and some require a pin assignment like D3 or D3
instead of using a d1 could you use a nodemcu 8266 with wled instaled and dmx effect in xlights? sorry im still learning some of this stuff.
Yes you could use a nodemcu. The programming is the same, just load the code with arduino.
Nice work!
Thank you.
I love this and would love what settings to put into xLights to make it work. Any chance you can share how you put this into xLights?
You can use the DMX effect and just set the correct channel above the threshold to turn it on and below the threshold in the code to turn it off
Sir if I want to connected to computer to make cloud in specific time( for example in flight sim) when plane get into cloud is this the way to control the fog machine? I appreciate if you let me know.
Really stupid question from a newbie. Where is the software accessed from the computer?
when I copy your code it will not let me go past the e131 says does not name a type????
You need to update and select the board in board manager. randomnerdtutorials.com/how-to-install-esp8266-board-arduino-ide/ follow these steps to get everything to work properly.
I don't see anything in the Arduino COM port viewer, any ideas?
Set it to carrage return and cycle thought all the diggerent baud rates. Everything you change the baud rate in serian monitor, reset the wemos till you see English on the serial monitor. When it displays garbage your getting close to the required baud rate.
@@moparguy2011 That helped, I needed to use 115200.
@@j0539h glad it got you going. Sorry i just read all the typos in my previous reply.
I keep getting an error
E131.h: No Such File or Directory
I got it had to update library...im kinda of new to this