Hi,
Working on my first foray into xLights. I got 10 leds working from an ESPixelStick (EPS) broadcast from an FPP on a Pi Zero very smoothly. However when I moved the ESPixelStick (EPS) to run an outdoor strand of 50 leds, there are holds and jumps in the sequence.
The EPS is located about the same distance from the router, and indoors. I noticed when running the sequence near my PC that playing a YT video did cause similar irregularities. So, I attempted to modify my network per instructions I have seen in several YT vids on the subject.
I attempted to make a private network, the original FPP IP was 10.0.0.228. I now changed that to static 10.0.2.1. I made similar adjustments to other devices on my network, everything involved in the show is now static IP. I'm not sure what to do about my PC however. I need to connect from my PC to the FPP and the EPS, and to the internet. I think I can only do that if I make the netmask 255.255.0.0. Is this correct? It seemed to improve the display slightly but it still has jumps and holds. Could you please explain how I should set up my device IPs and netmasks to make this work best? Attached is a list of my devices and current network definitions:
Router: Gateway: 10.0.0.1
FPP1 Falcon Pi Player on Pi Zero #1:
IP Static: 10.0.2.1 Connected by WIFI only
Netmask: 255.255.0.0
Gateway: 10.0.0.1
Win10 PC:
IP Static: 10.0.0.10
Netmask: 255.255.0.0
Gateway: 10.0.0.1
ESPS1 ESPixelStick #1:
IP Static: 10.0.2.2
Netmask: 255.255.0.0
Gateway: 10.0.0.1
Android Phone:
IP Static: 10.0.0.20
Netmask: ?? NA
Gateway: 10.0.0.1
Android Tablet:
IP Static: 10.0.0.30
Netmask: ?? NA
Gateway: ?? NA
Several other devices all with IPs: 10.0.0.XXX
I was unable to make things connect and work when using netmask 255.255.255.0. But I'm afraid using netmask 255.255.0.0 is allowing non-show traffic on my show network, is this true?
Thanks
