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ahodges9 / LedFx

LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effectvice syncronized effects across your entire house!
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Configuring WLED multisegments #114

Open swampdogmash opened 4 years ago

swampdogmash commented 4 years ago

Is there a way to connect to multiple segments with WLED?

jschollenberger commented 4 years ago

I was wondering the same thing. Did you happen to figure it out? I have multiple segments and I'm not sure if LedFX can support segments rather than doing it via multiple ESPs. The newer WLED has DMX support, but I can't figure out how it works.

swampdogmash commented 4 years ago

I never did figure this out. It just crashes when using the same ip for what is effectively a different segment defined by <same ip + different starting offset). It seemed to get really confused but the issue was raised in case I was doing it incorrectly. From what I can tell it appears that only a separate physical WLED with a different IP address could be used.

jschollenberger commented 4 years ago

Where are you configuring a starting offset?

I've just been clicking around and it definitely seems possible using the DMX universes but I still don't understand how they work. Without touching WLED, I configured 2 universes in LedFX - Universe 1 and Universe 2. It results in some strange behavior, but I've been able to break my 300 LED strip into 170 and 130 and control them separately.

swampdogmash commented 3 years ago

Thanks Jason. Yes, i had configured an offset to try and do this. I have a 300 led strip also. I configured ledfx with one device as ip+universe1+offset 0 and one as same ip+ same universe+ offset 450. This might be my mistake of not using 2 universes (giving the first universe a length of 45p and thus forcing universe 2). Ill have a look again and see what i can find out....

AlfonsoGo commented 3 years ago

Hello, I am interested in the control of several segments with the same LED strip, I cannot control it or adjust more than 85 LEDs per segment and without exceeding the 2 segments, you have any idea, I join this initiative, and when I get 85 LEDs of the first segment they light up they blink and they do strange things in the LEDs likewise does the 85 of the second segment

Vanixxx commented 3 years ago

Hi, somewhere in the wiki it says you have to set Universe Size to 510. This is how it worked for me with 300 Leds

https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED/wiki/E1.31-DMX

WLED advises against writing from 2 different systems to different universes with the same WLED controller.