Upload to controller w/ mega tree

[reelpilot]

Thanks for clarifying.

I would think the possibility is there for xlights to know which universes to send if FPP connect worked similar to the upload to controller feature. Hypothetically the user could from the setup tab select the block of universes that are associated with each pi and then have FPP connect only send the data for the highlighted universes. If no universes are highlighted then the entire universe data would be sent.

[jnealand]

Don't make this so complicated.  I use 10 remote Pis and each is configured for the full 64000 channels of my configuration.  Is that the efficient way to do, probably not, but so what, it works.  And it is simple to configure.  It is the controllers that will sort out what they need and not the Pis.

[Gilrock]

Yeah I'm not sure I follow how you have things setup but I assume all these Pis are not sending out onto the same network or else there would be no need for the additional Pis.  You stated you have universes "local to each Pi".  How exactly is that wired?

[keithsw1111]

I think Gil he has his pi’s connected to each other over wifi then a wired connection to one or two controllers.

So he uses sync over wifi to control them and they then pump out the data over the wire to the controller.

I don’t see any easy way to support this configuration for channel configuration upload. His suggestion above seems awkward. If you can’t make it remember the configuration you may as well manually configure it.

And once the wifi remote functionality in the v3 falcons comes along there will be even less need for this.

Jim solution will work until the universe count gets up to a 100 or so.


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[Gilrock]

Yeah but the local E1.31 traffic on a remote Pi doesn't try to go back out the wifi right?

[reelpilot]

Keith pretty much summed up how my setup works. The pi's are wirelessly on the same network and each has a wired connection to one controller. Sync packets travel over the common wifi network via master / remote and plays the show. I would think this is typical of anyone using master and remotes.

Last year I originally had my configuration for the full channel count as Jim suggested, but it slowed the show network to a standstill. When I attempted to play a 4 minute sequence it literally took over an hour to play out. It was moving just a few frames at a time and would completely lock up frequently. 

I certainly don't mind manually configuring my pi's, but if there was a way to incorporate it into xlights I think it would benefit those who use master and remotes with high channel counts. 

[keithsw1111]

Yeah that slowness is a problem on the pi’s with unicast.


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[Gilrock]

Yeah it must be limitations with the Pi.  We had the guys from the Illuminationz display in Arizona run over 1000 universes from a single PC.

[keithsw1111]

The fix for pi slowness is to add static arp entries for the nonexistent controllers.


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