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fpp
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XLights ā open-source light sequencer and show scheduler
Strong recommendation for Xlights, I used to program patterns for my dreamcoat.
I started with a 3D scan of me wearing the costume using my wife's iPhone when the first version with LIDAR came out. After cleaning up the scan (iPhone 12 LIDAR wasn't the best quality) in Blender, I spent a good many hours in Xlights placing every single light at its correct 3D position using the imported mesh as a reference. Laborious work, but with all 1300-odd WS2811 LEDs mapped in all 3 axes, it makes for a pretty beautiful product.
Using Xlights is great. For open source it's pretty smooth. There's a small learning curve for the technology, but making sequences a strong resemblance to video editing. The project has frequest updates, I haven't seen any project-breaking format changes in the 3.5 years I've used it, and it's clearly maintained by people who use it. Push new rendered sequences to my FPP-running raspi on the costume through wifi then editing the running playlist through a web interface on FPP on the laptop is a dream.
If anyone's curious:
FPP: https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp
My dreamcoat sequenced to Holst's Jupiter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWzdUJsAMa4&pp=ygUNbGVkIGRyZ...
Timelapses of me making the costume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PODWVIsqwwA&pp=ygUNbGVkIGRyZ...
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Raspberry Pi 5
I run my Christmas light show software (https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp) with a Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxaA-ca6S0 :)
- pi's running Falcon
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Using an event-based serverless architecture to run your Christmas lights
I use Falcon Player to run my show. This is software running on a Raspberry Pi that I upload my songs and light sequences to from xlights. FPP is configured to know where each light is plugged into on which pixel controller (small lighting computer). These controllers sit on my network and FPP pushes the data to them to play the songs/light sequences.
- My 'Idle' Halloween Display
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Want to program an led display , but don't know the controller's "brand"
I recommend you to use a known working controller like this: the protocol is known (sufficiently reverse engineered ) to make it do anything you like. Tools like xLights and FPP can send data to the card and thus to the LED matrix.
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What is a reputable LED strip brand?
You could also go the way of the LED panels (search for P5 Outdoor LED Panels) plus a Colorlight 5A 75B to control them. xLights and FPP support them well.
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Where's Moncton's tech enthusiasts at š
I don't think you need that much for it to work. I've seen so many cool light shows synchronized with music. You can use a Raspberry Pi and install on it Falcon Player ( FFP ) and connect everything through a network and maybe try on your laptop / pc a program called xLights to make some interesting stuff.
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WLED: anyone know how to mirror segments with different LED counts while still having the option to easily run effects as one continuous strand? Essentially, Iād like the pictured areas to mirror each other so that certain effects can be synced to have a more uniformed effect. Is that possible?
Details are here https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp
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What excites you today (technologically speaking)?
Happily! I will share what I use - please be aware there are lots of options in the space. Also, including my wife's advice from last year: Start small - one or two props can be make a great show and can be accomplished in a reasonable time frame.
Xlights: Sequencing and Scheduling software. This is what tells your lights what to do. (https://xlights.org/)
Falcon Pi Player (FPP): This software runs on your controller - A raspberry Pi or a Beaglebone are quite popular. This is what you run your sequences on. In my case, I drive my lights directly from my Pi. (https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp and https://falconchristmas.com)
firmware
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Rick Dangerous image 400 GB does not run properly!? (Noob in Linux and RasPi!)
the usual error is the image was made before the 8gb pi4 was released so is compatible with the 1,2 and 4gb models only without updating - for this error you can grab the latest boot file versions (kernel7l.img, start4.elf and the fixup4.dat are required for pi4) from here - https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot - they go into the /boot partition of the microsd/usb/ssd overwriting the old versions.
- Pi5 can't turn off LEDs
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Raspberry Pi 5
But oddly enough, they don't support some screen resolutions: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1202#issuecom...
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[RPi4] classic install or GenPi64
i went with the classic, you just need their special boot firmware (everything but the kernels, dtbs and overlay folder)
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Pi4b/4Gb : Is there a workaround to keep WiFi working when booting up from a USB 3 flash drive? Aside from plugging another WiFi dongle in of course.
USB3 and 2.4 GHz Wifi Ā· Issue #1430 Ā· raspberrypi/firmware
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Issues running agent on Raspberry Pi
OK for anyone else experiencing this problem - seems to be due to a breaking change in Raspberry Pi OS! - https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1795
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State of CRT RGB output on Raspberry Pi 4?
RetroArch can switch resolution like you said (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/pull/11590), and this fixes the bug (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1357) that the new DRM interface does not work for switching DPI displays (like our SCART hats.
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POE Fan controller on RPI w/ Ubuntu 22
Based on https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1734 a kernel change may have caused my problem. I will check this tomorrow.
- Solutions for "shimmering" text on old black and white CRT?
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My remote Pi for my ADSB is going bad
Those happened ~9 seconds after startup and it's a known error, so it's probably fine.
What are some alternatives?
xLights - xLights is a sequencer for Lights. xLights has usb and E1.31 drivers. You can create sequences in this object oriented program. You can create playlists, schedule them, test your hardware, convert between different sequencers.
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rpi-albumart - Show album art for the current track and total scrobbles from Last.fm on a very cute computer. Uses the Rocket web framework + Tera for templates, all in Rust.
circle - A C++ bare metal environment for Raspberry Pi with USB (32 and 64 bit)