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Hello Fellow DIYers Its now September and Christmas is quickly approaching. I am organizing The 16th annual DIYC ChristmasCard Swap and am seeking...

I am trying to use a renard 64 chained to a px1 and something isnt right. I have the px1 first in line and it works fine. When I try to output to the...

Hello Lighting People, I decided to dive into the deep end of lighting and construct a holiday lighting setup with a controller. I recently...

I've been working on a project using the ESP8266 in which I was trying to read data into the RAM at a 2MByte/s rate. I noticed that there are slight...

Hi So I upload from xlights a fseq file to my Lolin d32 pro. If I select, in the UI my fseq file, it runs perfectly. (On pin 2) When I play...

I have an aborvitae tree that has outgrown the Twinkly lights i use on it. Thinking of buying several pixel strips and tie them at the top and fan...

Happy Birthday algerdes ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

I'm confused about something: on my Renards (even SS24's), I have never had a problem with small lights never completely shutting off. My DMX...

Hi all, I've recently decided to try out some of the 'pebble' pixels on some of my old fold-up metal tree props. These are currently incan trees and...

Hey all, I have a house outline setup and a garage outline as well. I have 2 power supplies in my attic running a pi and an f16v4, and one supply...

I might be going crazy or I'm missing something very obvious, but...... I returned the Kulp K4-PB and purchased a K8-B and a Beagle Bone Black...

I'm using xlights 2023.13 and a window model for my front door. I've used this setup for a few years without issue but this year when using the...

This is the first time I will be using a DMX device let alone a fog machine. I think its mostly worked out in theory but I could use some...

Hey all, So I bought into trim for icicles where I can pop pixels into some coro. My question is how to wire up the pixel strings. I can brut...

We recently moved to Margaritaville in Daytona Beach. Unable to to large display like I had before on the house. How about doing lights with...

This is real weird. FOUR different controllers, multiple sets of WS2811 pixels, some new, tested, and never used. Some older working strings,...

I have 4 arches with 50 pixels in each. These are connected to two sets of pathway lights from Wally's Lights, which are then connected to a Boscoyo...

I've noticed that most (maybe all) of the custom props I've seen are either flat coro models and simple vertical string cone trees, but I've began...

I'm trying to export a sequence using FPP connect in Xlights and I keep get the spinning wheel of death and have to force quit the program. I'm just...

Used Coro Snowflakes for sale There are 14 total made up of 5 patterns: 11 are approx 22" across 3 are approx 16" across Most are from...

I have an ESPixelStick v3.0 board running v3.2 firmware. Works great! I have been seeing for a while posts mentioning v4 ESPixelStick, is that...

I'm looking for best bang for your buck 12V and/or 24V power supplies 200-450W range. I have a Meanwell PSU I use for projects where I need...

Plan to have 55 peace stakes in the show and possibly expand later and trying to figure out the best option for pixels. There are pre-made 5 pixel...

Plese Help I did use the led calculator online, and it looks like I need 12v 37.74a 452.88w. If I did it right. I am not sure if this will...

Hey all, I was successful in setting up my F16v4 as a standalone FPP to run my sequence. However, I am unable to get the "send to lights" or test...

Just sprucing up last years sequences that played without a problem. Most are fine but when this is Halloween video starts, the preview window...

Evening All, I finally have all of my outline pixels mounted but don't yet have any sequences created. I had to rent a JLG man lift to mount the...

I wanted to replace the null Pixel LEDs in my long run with a Non-LED signal repeater. I see there are null pixel buffers (see pic) but I think they...

Happy Birthday boyelroy11 ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

Does WanyeJ still sell the kits? I have been away for a year building a new house(just to decorate..lol) and am going to need way more channels than...