Expo matrix / panel display

[JonB256]

On the Enable E1.31 Output screen, the choice of Uni vs Multicast only matters if you are outputting.

[JonB256]

On the next two tabs (BBB and LED), do you have an "enable" check on the BBB page? (You shouldn't)
Just on the LED page for P10.

If you uncheck both, will it Start the FPPD in bridge mode?

Update - I tried checking the Enable box in both the BBB and LED Panel page. Something you would never actually use, but I tried.  My FPPD still started in Bridge Mode.

Over a year ago, I had a problem with Bridge mode not starting and it turned out that my Flash Drive was not updating the proper config file. I formatted a new flash drive, drag/drop copied the contents from the old to the new, and it began working.

[gerry]

On the next two tabs (BBB and LED), do you have an "enable" check on the BBB page? (You shouldn't)
Just on the LED page for P10.

No , just on the LED page.

Over a year ago, I had a problem with Bridge mode not starting and it turned out that my Flash Drive was not updating the proper config file. I formatted a new flash drive, drag/drop copied the contents from the old to the new, and it began working.

Hi Jon, I will let Captain have a look at what I have uploaded in case something else needs to be done, but if not will try another drive. Else if that does cause other issues now, I would have muddied the waters.
Since I have multi synch working , I can still check the panel output though in a round about way.

[gerry]

We will be separating out the E1.31 input and output config options after FPP v1.5 hopefully.

Once you upload, I won't be able to look at logs zip until tomorrow probably but hopefully it will help us figure it out.

Hello Captain,

Have you had a chance to have a look at the logs and attachments ?

[CaptainMurdoch]

Sorry, was out of town for work and didn't have as much free time as I expected.  I will try to get to it tonight now that I am back home.  I did get some coding done on the plane though, so I have a few commits to make for v1.5. 

[gerry]

Sorry, was out of town for work and didn't have as much free time as I expected.  I will try to get to it tonight now that I am back home.  I did get some coding done on the plane though, so I have a few commits to make for v1.5. 

Thanks Captain .
In the words of the immortal Spock -  “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

[CaptainMurdoch]

I looked at the log zip and there is nothing that helps in fppd.log.  I did find a bug in the code that packages up the channeloutputs.json file into the zip so I fixed that.  I am going to look at the config and other files to see if I see can reproduce the issue.

[gerry]

Hello Captain,

I now have it working !

On the E1.31 screen , I disabled (ie just unticked ) the universes that did not pertain to the BBB P10 panels ie in my config everything prior to universe 30 and saved the config. I left only 4 universes 30-33 to see what would happen.

On the restart ,  FFPD started running in bridge mode (!), so I then defined the remaining ones after that till 53 which covers the universes for the channels on the panels. All other universes are inactive.

I did notice though that when running the xlights output (laptop wired to the router , router wired to BBB, multicast defined , nothing else connected )- the output on the panels is quite jerky ie it displays for a second , than pauses , then renders the next second etc.

Jon- thanks for your help and responses too !

[JonB256]

I did notice though that when running the xlights output (laptop wired to the router , router wired to BBB, multicast defined , nothing else connected )- the output on the panels is quite jerky ie it displays for a second , than pauses , then renders the next second etc.

Jon- thanks for your help and responses too !

Gerry, I know it can seem a bit jumpy, especially with text, but not that jumpy. Not a second or even a 1/4 second.

You wouldn't happen to also have a session of LightORama running, would you? If the LOR control panel is even open, it will be flooding your system with Multicast packets and will cause that exact problem.

[gerry]

Thanks Jon,

No I don't have LOR, but this is something that I can work on , now that I know it is not correct. It could be a mismatch somewhere or on laptop end. 1 sec is probably an exaggeration , but it is jerky.

Will tinker with things. When the FPPD would not start at all, that had me stumped. I did not want to chop and change until the captain had had a look, as otherwise it is a moving target.

[JonB256]

Take a look at the program Wireshark. It will display the network traffic on your system and quickly pinpoint if you have data flooding your system when you don't expect it.  When you are sending (bridge mode) data to the P10, it would also show if there are gaps or delays in outgoing packets.

https://www.wireshark.org/

[gerry]

I deleted the FP logs on the BBB FP and changed to Warning mode from debug and the performance on the panels was much much better !

[JonB256]

Gerry, if that made that big of a difference, you might want to try a faster USB memory drive.

[CaptainMurdoch]

Debug is very chatty if you have it also set to all log masks.

Glad you got it working, I will look over the universes file to see if I notice anything that might have broken it.

[gerry]

Thanks Captain and Jon.