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I was only able to get ahold of a couple of RBLs over Christmas last year. But I came up with another way to use them. RBCs - Really Big Candles ...

Ok, since there has been a few posts on last years virtual summit thread, I thought I would start one for the 2021 summit. I'll start by asking...

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Hi all, I'm presenting a paper at a fairly major Embedded Systems conference, and a major portion of it is about putting together Christmas shows,...

I am looking for some 16/2 SPT-2 CLEAR cable. I checked with HomeDepot, Lowes and AliExpress but I have a hard time finding this kind of cable. Is...

I built the Navy coro prop from Boscoyo for my dad that I'm lighting using an ESPixelstick and I thought I had seen last year there were plans to...

Hi guys I have been trying to get in touch with Ray Wu using this email address "ray@rita-light.com". Is there a newer address that will have a...

Hi, I just got off the VCS 2021 summit, there were several classes on FPP, and I am contemplating switching to it. I am coming from PiLightShow,...

Looking for some advice on adding Full wave Converters to big box store LED strings. Once the led strings are converted would it draw a higher amount...

I have read in older posts (vixen 2 and previous) that vixen sees icicles upside down. I was wondering if this is still the same for vixen 3. The...

At the moment I'm running a wemos D1 Mini to control my mega tree using 1184 nodes. I'm using the ESPixelStick software on the D1 Mini. The...

I am hoping someone will help with a step-by-step walk thru on how to convert pictures to put on a matrix (or in my case a megatree) What programs...

Last year I built a simple 16 channel Arduino controller with vixen. It worked out pretty well, but I found myself wishing I had dimming...

Hi everyone came across something i thought was very interesting on youtube so thought i would share it Printed some out just to try them see pic ...

I am trying to figure out these Colorlight 5A-75B Panel Controller. I know that each Colorlight 5A-75B Panel Controller has 8 outputs but what I am...

Hello all, I am fairly new to some of this. Have always had a Christmas light display, but am taking the step into setting up a light show. Not...

Hi, I'm building a custom string of WS2811 nodes in order to control the specific length between nodes. Each string will be 25' with 30 WS2811....

Looking for ideas on hanging 10mm coro props (36" spinners, 24" snowflakes) populated with bullet nodes on vinyl siding. With the bullet nodes, I'll...

Just wondering how to setup RGBW pixel in Vixen. When I set colour handling to RGBW I can only use red, green and blue separately. I don't own any...

Hi guys, Really enjoying this forum and learning so much but very much a newbie here. I've built a couple controllers and have my first pixels...

please excuse me ahead of time i have a bunch of beginner questions im sure are answered here if i read the whole forum i plan on doing the...

I have a city street light on the edge of my property. It is way too bright now that they upgraded it to LEDs. Any tips on shutting it off while...

Been living overseas and haven't used these in a while. They were all working when I put them away but not sure of the status currently. I have...

Has anyone run 2 0r 3 HP Power supplies off a single power cord? How did you do it? Yes i know the math, i will not be exceeding the breaker.

Anyone use them? Caveats, gotchas, environment sensitivities?

Is there any way to slave a sequence from a FPP set to Player (standalone) using a locally installed USB with the .fseq files? My fseq file is 4.5...

I know before when we started a new sequence all the display would show up on picture but now for some reason they do not show up. Some times they...

Perhaps having too much time to "think" again this year, but I'm going to ask for your opinions. Many of us have found that we can use most of the...

Hi All, I want to perm mount my house outline. I have modeled my house in sketchup and attached side and front shots here on how I imagine the...

Hello! I'm completely new to this. I decided to try a small scale project before I invest a ton of $. I got 3 5M strings of WS2815 lights with a...