Use Multiple Instances of WLED

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Use Multiple Instances of WLED #427

Open ledgendarydiy opened 3 years ago

ledgendarydiy commented 3 years ago

Hi there,

first of all, I just stumbled upon this great project!

I already have multiple instances of WLED spread throughout my apartment. I pretty much was able to immediately connect to one of them. But I wasnt able to connect to multiple instances.

Here is what I want to accomplish:

I have a triple monitor setup
Each should be able to connect to multiple WLED instances
Each monitor gets its own dedicated device (no wiring between monitors to keep the setup clean an flexible)
In addition celing and corner lights should be added too, so now only the wall behind the screens but the whole room becomes interactive

I was able to setup 3 Monitors with a single WLED so 3to1 .. but not 3toN. Is there any possibility to do that?

I hope someone can help me out here :)

zomfg commented 3 years ago

depends on how you want WLED to act, but:

only one device per Prismatik instance for now
WLED allows you to sync multiple boards
and Aircoookie/WLED#338
you can also setup one big virtual triple screen device and make a script (and hook it there) that cuts the colors up and distributes to your WLEDs in whatever fashion

ledgendarydiy commented 3 years ago

thanks for your reply!

So from what I understand: One device per Prismatik instance - So one workaround would be having 3 Instances running. This would leave me with 1 Instance per 1 Monitor running having 1 Instance WLED controlled.

Syncing across multiple WLED would result in weird visual behaviours I guess. For instance if I have a vertical lightstrip in the corner of the room, When the top of the monitor a segment in the corner would be lit accordingly, which is not that immersive (since I cannot control individual parts, e.g. screenboarders etc .. or did I miss something here?)

Anyway. I guess for now I will have to do wiring / extension from one screen to another and hope for future updates that allow multiple devices (I've seen that hyperion does support this, but doesnt support multi monitor on the other hand - hand the input lag is more noticable)

JorinL commented 3 years ago

Hey there, I use 2 devices with different profiles on one screen.

One device is the real environment on the screen and has 42 LEDs, the other is a solid color analog RGB strip behind me on a shelf at ceiling height.

I tried to work with 2 configs - starting one instance with the first config and then copying the second config and starting the second instance... sadly the first gets closed when the second starts to work.

Ist there a way to start instances better without copying configs - That wouldn't be a problem as long as it works.

The first device is connected via USB, the second via WiFi and udp. Both are DIY with WLED.

;-D