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zachgoldstein / heavy-meta-lights

A light control system for heavy meta, an art car headed to burning man
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Get router setup with mobile modem and setup lots of light strips #10

Open zachgoldstein opened 5 years ago

zachgoldstein commented 5 years ago

Simon Plashkes and I ran into some challenges getting the router setup sorted out and working for a few testing strips.

Yesterday we were trying to get two light strips setup with the cisco access point (dragonLAN) going with the dragon. The access point was setup so the POE port was hooked up to the shop's existing router. Setting up the lights requires a network that's hooked up to the internet unfortunately, so we needed to hook the dragon's network up to some sort of network access. During the light setup process, we saw a bunch of odd behaviour, from strips taking too long to setup and failing half way to strips dropping the connection after being setup. I think some of this might be because of pins not being connected securely, as mentioned here: https://github.com/zachgoldstein/heavy-meta-lights/issues/3#issuecomment-513910839

Instead of mucking with the two routers, I think we should try to get the mobile modem hooked up to the dragon's cisco router and just focus on getting as many strips as possible working there. With that in place we can start to do cool stuff.

zachgoldstein commented 5 years ago

Roman Kogan seems to be owning the network setup here. Alexander Forster is also involved. Once that's good to go, the light setup shouldn't be an issue.