when connecting 3 SK6812, deamon gives error

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Raspberry Pi WS2812 (web) server tool

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when connecting 3 SK6812, deamon gives error #60

Closed hans-martijn closed 3 years ago

hans-martijn commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I was trying to connect 3 SK6812-rings to one pi, as in the text example in the code. I got the following error from the deamon:

ws2812svr[883]: Error no free channels anymore for led type WS2811/SK6812, max number of PWM led strings is 2

Did I do something wrong?

Kind regards, Hans

tom-2015 commented 3 years ago

You can only connect 2 SK6812-rings to the same Raspberry. If you want to connect more you can try to connect the output of ring 2 to input of ring 3 of course you must adjust the commands for ring 3 to start at the right offset in led string 2.

hans-martijn commented 3 years ago

Thanks Tom,

Since I already built the lights in my boat, I'll simply buy a new raspberry I guess. Thanks for your quick answer!!!