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I would recommend using P5s with Rons.Who sells P5s? Are the physical dimensions the same (so that it would work with the Boscoyo strips)? I assume the power consumption is twice as much since the density is doubled? Anything else different that is of concern (like programming them)? How many P5s can RonP's board handle? And lastly, what size are you making (that enough questions?)? Thanks!
The price is a little higher but the resolution would be awesome. I doing this myself.
Sounds great, I look forward to hearing about your experiences with it!!!
Here are some pics:
I don't have any photos after painted and the vinyl cover on the front.
My biggest issue now is trying to get the BBB's to be reliable. They are very flaky.
The vinyl works well. I don't notice any glare, however, I didn't do a great job on installation. There are some wrinkles, which are somewhat noticeable during the day. At night, you can't tell any difference. That issue is my laziness. When the vinyl shipped, I should have removed from the box and laid out in the sun for a few hours. Because I didn't, it was hard to get the creases out from where it was folded during shipping. The vinyl is great at water proofing. My matrix is covered (by my front porch), so I didn't do much in water proofing the box, but I'm confident it would be water proof if I would have caulked the joints. If my matrix wouldn't have been covered, I would have tested with a water hose before installing the panels, just to ensure water tight joints.
You asked:
"Is it ~ 7.3ft wide x 3.15ft tall?"
It is actually 11 panels (69.2") by 7 panels (88.1"). My next post will show a layout.
I used Boscoyo parts for joining each panel. I then used aluminum angle to stiffen each "row". Then attached the angle to the enclosure via 90° brackets, you can see in one of the photos. This worked well.
I started off using 80/20, but that didn't work out well, so good ole' lumber was used. It is sturdy enough for what I needed.
I hope this was helpful info and I didn't ramble too much. I'm in multitask mode and that sometimes means confusion.
James
the pi player team continues to add more features. I think it will become the go to show player for many people in 2014.
It is a great question and yes you could just use xLights/Nutcracker. In simple terms you would build your element (Matrix) and then use effects to do as needed with the element. You can then save it and use it in xLights scheduler.
That is really pretty much the ease of using xLights/Nutcracker. If I am wrong, I am sure someone will help both of us.
The reason you may see other people using xLights/Nutcracker and another sequencing program is history.
Example: I have been using Vixen for over 5 years. I have a significant DMX network of lights built over those 5 years (386channels). With sequencing times in my past being 3-5 hours for every minute of music, I have chosen to just add elements every year. When I first started with RGB the sequencing time was closer to 50 plus hours for very simple movements. Then Nutcracker came along and over the last couple of years it has been growing into a leading software. Even more true now that xLights has combined with Nutcracker. I now use xLights/Nutcracker to add RGB elements to my original vixen sequences. I then convert them back to xLights/Nutcracker to use in the scheduler. xLights scheduler is flawless for me and I have used it from its inception. Good luck and ask lots of questions. I hope this is not to confusing or off subject.
there are some people
aaron, dave,zach myself and i am sure others who just used xlights.nutcracker as the sequencer. this really works best if most of your show is rgb. all of us are in the 20-40K channel range. when the shows get large, the other sequencers bog down. I think HLS is another sequencer that can do large channel counts but i have not used it.
we owe matt brown a big thanks for designing the architecture for xlights/nutcracker in a way that it scales to such large channel counts. i had nothing to do with this. You can model and run 60K channel displays.
either xlights as a player or the pi player as a player both can play large channel count shows.
there are plans to make a master/slave pi player. give each pi responsible for something like 30-60K channels and then get another if you need higher channel count. we are targeting 100-120K channels as a use case. If we get it to work with that then all the smaller shows should not have issues.
we barely had anyone with more than 10K channels in 2012. 2013 saw dozens approaching the 20-30K channels. so to stay ahead of the curve we will work on the > 100K channels for 2014.