Sean Meighan
General => My Show Setup => Topic started by: gerry on June 29, 2015, 05:28:20 AM
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Hello
I have my P10 panels working !
Below is a link to a short video showing it working with a few effects chucked on , but my point and shoot camera does not it any justice and probably is not keeping up with the fps.
The actual effects are very smooth and bright.
I currently have 4 panels connected to a Beaglebone (BBB) running the Falcon player and running a short xLights sequence.
I have another 4 panels , but I need a longer flat ribbon cable (as the ones supplied were mostly tiny and good for panels side by side but too short to connect panels vertically above each other), plus need to construct a backing board to support the panels better , before adding more .
Many thanks to Darylc who demonstrated the entire setup at the Sydney mini and AussiePhil and others who provided invaluable guidance on installing and configuring the image , FFF software , plus others on this forum who advised on configuration details and where to get bits and pieces.
I was also provided assistance in soldering the pins and thingys on the Octoscroller this weekend.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xcdikswg804im25/MVI_5395.MOV?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/xcdikswg804im25/MVI_5395.MOV?dl=0)
I am most rapped , considering that at of the beginning of last month , I was just starting with xLights and had never seen either a PI or heard off a BBB and now have sequences on both running with these panels! All because of the huge amount of information shared on this and other forums.
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Of course, that's not a link.
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It is now!
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I'm kinda curious if you going to be using these outdoors and if so how are you protecting them from rain?
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Looks great!
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Of course, that's not a link.
Sorry, I remembered to change it on two out of three forums. :)
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I'm kinda curious if you going to be using these outdoors and if so how are you protecting them from rain?
No, I will be placing the panels inside the house window against the glass.
In addition to the rain, in our Summer here , we get very hot days and evenings and high UV, so am not sure how the whole thing would withstand the elements if placed outside considering their low cost.
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Hello,
Over the last few weeks , I have setup my config (FP on a BBB) for my P10 panels , then tried a few things , then moved it to a standalone show network and then used a master (Pi FPP) run the same sequence on the FP BBB to drive the panels . Progressively moving to my final setup.
I had a few questions on different definitions and a fair bit of trial and error and so have attached a document of my setup and definitions and a few steps that I went through.
Hope this is of use.
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Cool I just ordered 21 panels today I have Octoscroller boards being made and parts to build them.
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Top marks Gerry. I admire your work out put and then your input back to the community.
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Cool I just ordered 21 panels today I have Octoscroller boards being made and parts to build them.
Shucks ! That's going to be a big display. Is this one matrix or two ? And what layout ?
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Top marks Gerry. I admire your work out put and then your input back to the community.
I do get a lot of joy with this activity and many such as Sean , Gil , Dan , Steve etc give us far more !
Cant believe that only two years ago , I had no idea what animated lighting (or even Pixel lighting) was and actually went back to the Tuppet's place in the day to 'closely look at ' what sort of lights they had that could change color like that :)
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Cool I just ordered 21 panels today I have Octoscroller boards being made and parts to build them.
Shucks ! That's going to be a big display. Is this one matrix or two ? And what layout ?
Actually I thought it was too small but didn't want to bite off too much for the first one. It's going to be 4x5 which gives 128x80 pixels just like the one I borrowed for my presentation at the Expo. Its only barely over 4' wide and I really would like 6' to 8' wide but the channel count gets crazy. I showed my wife a quick clip of my presentation and she thought it was a TV...lol.
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65" TVs are starting to be comparatively cheap. :)
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Yeah but half the hobby for me is I need to be challenged. There's no challenge in displaying video on a TV.
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if you get p20 panels then the matrix at the expo (30K channels) would have been 4 times bigger. (twice as wide and twice as high)
I think that is what i would want. need to research 20mm panels and compare the price to 10mm.
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Yeah my next one might be with P20's :)
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here is link to p20
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/P20-Outdoor-2R1G1B-Full-Color-Window-LED-Panel-Module-320-160mm-16-8-pixels/1634454664.html
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Not sure that's the one you would want. Looks like that one is a 2R1G1B config so there is a bunch of quads with 2 reds diagonal with a green and blue on the other corners. You can actually see the colors in the photos.
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Yeah but half the hobby for me is I need to be challenged. There's no challenge in displaying video on a TV.
I agree and when I proudly showed my wife the panels working via multisynch and displaying faces with voices (using the 10 faces image that I painstakingly constructed via Papagayo etc etc), her comment was along the lines of - cant you just use that plasma TV that we don't use any longer and show a DVD :(
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What about this one?
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/P16-Outdoor-RGB-Full-Color-Window-TEXT-LED-Display-Module-320-160mm-20-10-pixels/314096_1634421737.html
I am thinking about it, since is the same price as the P10 indoor.
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RoboMello, I don't know of anyone who has tried those with the BBB and Octoscroller.
They used to be 3x the cost so nobody I know has tried them. Are you volunteering?
Note that they have a gasketed back, intended to seal against a non-porous backing sheet. You still need to waterproof the back side somehow.
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That item says it is HUB08 which I doubt is compatible with HUB75 which is what FPP with Octoscroller supports. Another reason it wouldn't work it is P16 but the same physical size as the 32x16 P10 panels so it doesn't have 32 columns and 16 rows which would make it incompatible with the FPP code as well.