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sprite-media-player-holiday-decorations/ #2

Open utterances-bot opened 3 years ago

utterances-bot commented 3 years ago

Medeawiz Sprite Deep-Dive for Holiday Decorations - Herding Penguins

When preparing for the holidays, I’m a big fan of digital decorations- which use a projector and special videos to “decorate” a surface or create various special effects.

https://jwkenney.github.io/sprite-media-player-holiday-decorations/

TeamKings commented 3 years ago

James, I am glad you like the Sprite! To add to your testing notes,

TeamKings commented 3 years ago

The Sprite is designed to be powered on / off by mains / power strip. ATMOS was told about the Jack O lantern video's audio issue last year. I presume they have not fixed it thus far. We do recommend files be encoded at 1080p60 with around 20,000 kbps for best quality and smooth transitions when looping or changing files. However as you mentioned, changing the video output on the Sprite will often suffice. You are correct that our MDS-B motion sensor can trigger the Sprite on either the Trigger Low or High settings. The sensor is normally low and transitions High when it finds motion. Then after a slight delay is transitions back to low. If you use Trigger Low you add a slight delay before the trigger file plays.

TeamKings commented 3 years ago

Sorry - the motion sensor part number is MSA-B

TeamKings commented 3 years ago

Since you opened with digital decorations for the holidays, I will also mention our Hydra input / output accessory for the Sprite has DMX input. Many holiday light decorations are now using DMX control. You can now add multiple Sprites to your DMX bus and control the videos on queue along with your lights.