FPP Events

[lightsonlinden]

Was hoping someone could direct me to a thread to understand FPP Events and explain some simplistic items that folks use the event function for, etc.

[Phrog30]

Was hoping someone could direct me to a thread to understand FPP Events and explain some simplistic items that folks use the event function for, etc.

You should find all fpp info here.

http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php?board=8.0

James



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[flyinverted]

The FPP Wiki is at http://falconchristmas.com/wiki/index.php

[jnealand]

You asked how people use them so here goes.

I have two events
1. Turn static lights on, the event calls a script  I trigger the event as the first item in a playlist and can also trigger it manually.
2. Turn static lights off, the event calls a script  I trigger the event as the last item in a playlist and can also trigger it manually.

[lightsonlinden]

Jim,

How are they triggered?  Via a sequence or some other means?

I may getting myself confused but how does one use the GPIO on on the Pi to either drive something through the GPIOs or input from the GPIOs?

[Gilrock]

I use events to turn on my inflatables at the beginning of the show and off at the end.  You create a Pixel Overlay in the FPP which overrides control of a channel.  I use some of my LOR A/C channels.  My inflatables are connected to those channels.  Then the scripts are written to activate those same channels.

Here's what my script to turn on inflatables looks like:

#############################################################################
# PowerUpInflatables.sh - Power up the inflatables
#############################################################################
#!/bin/sh

# Turn on the memory mapped block for the Inflatables
fppmm -m NeighborsYard -o on
fppmm -m RightInflatables -o on
fppmm -m LeftInflatables -o on

# Inflate the inflatables
fppmm -c 7977 -s 255
fppmm -c 7958 -s 255
fppmm -c 7959 -s 255
fppmm -c 25362 -s 255
fppmm -c 25363 -s 255
fppmm -c 25364 -s 255
fppmm -c 25365 -s 255

#############################################################################

[jnealand]

Jim,

How are they triggered?  Via a sequence or some other means?

I may getting myself confused but how does one use the GPIO on on the Pi to either drive something through the GPIOs or input from the GPIOs?

I know nothing about GPIOs.  Look at the playlist build function and you will see event as one of the dropdown options of what you are putting into a playlist.