ws2811 magic dream colour rgb strips

[bazzabee]

hi in the latest version of xlights under set up o f models would I put these strips down as 3 channel rgb? and also what would be the size of the pixel<

all help much appreciated

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[Gilrock]

I think "3 channel RGB" is only there to support it being a legacy option.  You can select that or "RGB" and you get the same thing.

[bazzabee]

Hi
Thankyou for your reply,
Just a quick question what distance would you say you could put the main pixel controller front any models.
I'm using alpha pix v2 16 outputs.

Thankyou.

Barry

[sean]

20-30 ft would probably be a good number.

[sean]

I think "3 channel RGB" is only there to support it being a legacy option.  You can select that or "RGB" and you get the same thing.

There is one difference between RGB and 3 color RGB

If you have a string of 50 nodes of dumb rgb
1x50 RGB                would draw 50 bulbs on preview but would be 150 channels
1x50 3 channel RGB would draw 50 bulbs on preview  but would be 3 channels screen.

[Gilrock]

I think "3 channel RGB" is only there to support it being a legacy option.  You can select that or "RGB" and you get the same thing.

There is one difference between RGB and 3 color RGB

If you have a string of 50 nodes of dumb rgb
1x50 RGB                would draw 50 bulbs on preview but would be 150 channels
1x50 3 channel RGB would draw 50 bulbs on preview  but would be 3 channels screen.

Searching the code for "3 Channel RGB" it didn't look like they were treated differently so I'm not sure how we are accomplishing that difference.

[sean]

i dont know how it is done but i just created a 10x50 tree starting at channel 1:

10x50 as rgb shows channels 1-1500
10x50 as 3 channel rgb shows 1-30
for the channel ranges

[Gilrock]

Yeah I got home and found it.  It's not obvious but any string type that doesn't end in " Nodes" is mapped as a single node model.

    static bool HasSingleNode(const std::string& StrType)
    {
        static std::string Nodes(" Nodes");
        if (Nodes.size() > StrType.size()) return false;
        return !std::equal(Nodes.rbegin(), Nodes.rend(), StrType.rbegin());
    }