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Hope it's ok to ask here so as to target Pixel users. I'm almost ready to make my first Pixel purchase. I suspect if I get them from one of the...

Ok, this seems old, but a friend gave me his SanDevices RGB controller and Arches to fix. They weren't working. I figured out that the Arches are...

Calling all Renard users who run both AC and Pixels Been awhile since I ran my all AC christmas show via Xmus16 boards. What is the school of...

Happy 74th Birthday dirknerkle ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

I plan to add 102 6-pixel Peace Stakes to my display for this year. Everything I have read and viewed says to set them up "organically" rather than...

Happy 67th Birthday ErnieHorning ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

I'm seeing lots of pixels advertised as 18 AWG but the details state 32 or so strands at .11mm diameter. Researching and it looks like that is not...

The Vixen Team is proud to announce the launch of our updated website. The new site has a more modern feel and is much easer to navigate. Much of the...

I was going thru some old videos and ran back across this one from 5 years ago. Thought I would repost for some of the newbies as encouragement to...

I'm putting together a renard for the first time. What are the consequences if I reverse hot and neutral? Do I need to be paranoid about this? ...

I have an older prop, that I am thinking of upgrading. I had a prop that I built 4yr ago. That was all dumb nods with an 8-channel controller. I want...

Hi I have a projector that natively has the resolution of 1280x800. When I plug my computer to it and play a video it looks great. But when I...

I'm Buildind some BBB16 controller boards and they call for 220uf 50v radial caps and I have a lot of 220uf 25v on hand. Can I substitute 25v for 50v...

I have a used Raspberry B+ I bought off of flea-bay last year. I tried to load FPP and I read that if I get to the login screen, you were done. ...

Hi, general question: is Vixen very good at DMX? I've got a show to do that's mostly DMX stage lights, with a little pixels mixed in. I like...

Happy 63rd Birthday critic2 ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

I have sent 3 emails to info@wiredwatts.com and I have not had a reply. I ordered a K8B with Beaglebone Black and have been successful in loading...

Happy Birthday kenoman742 ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

I flashed FPPv6.3 to a memory card and insirted into RPI ver3.5. Connected to my Tmobile router. At that point the FPP appeared on my network...

I have an F48v4 with 4 local ports and then 6x remote Smart Receivers that I'll use for placement of my lights. I'm building out all my props for...

Since I had asked about this on different forums before and no one particularly had a solution, I thought I'd document this. The problem: For...

Hello, I am new to this hobby. I've done a lot of reading, but really it's just making my head swim. I am looking for someone who can guild me...

Just checking to see how folks are mounting their HP 1200 watt server power supplies to an enslosure? I don't see any mounting holes on the ones...

I've seen sales for brackets to stack Meanwell Power Supplies, but not for Generics. Since I don't own any Meanwells, can anyone tell me if the...

I have been designing circuit boards and electronics for myself as a hobby for many years, and now I would like to get into selling some light...

Happy 59th Birthday davdue ! Hope you have a wonderful day, and very best wishes from everyone here at Do It Yourself Christmas.

Hello There is a problem with external RTC on Orange Pi One board, because it has onboard RTC (rtc0) and if I use external one it doesn't work...

Does anyone know of a way to extract/convert the data on light positions from a xlights model as an SVG/STL/DXG/OBJ? Basically I want to extract...

I just watched the Harris Christmas video in regards to FPP licence/eeprom and have a couple of questions. Does this licencing apply to the Esp...

This information is for those of you that use the development builds. We have just completed a significant refactoring of the code to upgrade it to...