16*16 LED Panel WS2812B RGB LED Full Color Digital Flexible Display Board 5V 256

[JimmieNC]

I am looking for how to setup three of the 16*16 LED Panel WS2812B RGB LED Full Color Digital Flexible Display Board 5V 256 Pixels side by side.  I did not see an element for that or how to setup it correctly.
Please Advise

[kevinp]

Use the matrix model within xLights.  Then change the parameters of the model to match the 16x16 panels.  Default is 16x50.

[JimmieNC]

I see that for one panel, how do you do more than one together? Signal comes in top left and out bottom Right.

[JimmieNC]

I mean bottom left,  I think I need to do custom element. What do you think?

[babybear]

The other choice would be setup 3 models then put them into one group.

[kevinp]

If you have three panels, make the matrix model 48x16 or 16x48 depending on the orientation?  Then run the data out of one into the next panel.  I can't imagine this is any different then the normal P5/P10 panels everyone typically uses.

[CaptainMurdoch]

If you have three panels, make the matrix model 48x16 or 16x48 depending on the orientation?  Then run the data out of one into the next panel.  I can't imagine this is any different then the normal P5/P10 panels everyone typically uses.

The P5/P10 panels are essentially glued together in software in FPP or the xLights helper program and treated as a single large matrix.  Panels like these would need something to glue together the multiple panels which are each individually zig zagged internally.

[kevinp]

The P5/P10 panels are essentially glued together in software in FPP or the xLights helper program and treated as a single large matrix.  Panels like these would need something to glue together the multiple panels which are each individually zig zagged internally.

That makes sense if these types of panels aren't supported by FPP, which you would know.   

Maybe three separate models grouped within xLights would be the way to go then?

[Gilrock]

I've always figured out how to make hardware work in xLights when it shows up in a package on my doorstep. Don't expect it to leave my house though....packages check in but they don't check out...lol.

[CaptainMurdoch]

Maybe three separate models grouped within xLights would be the way to go then?

I think that is the only way to do this currently due to the way these wrap.

I am in a similar situation but for a different reason.  I have 30 P10 panels on one BBB.  I have them setup in 3 matrices in 3 side by side windows so there is a small gap between each window for the window frame.  FPP sees one wide matrix, but I use an undocumented feature of FPP to split that into 3 logical matrices which I configure individually in xLights and place on my xLights preview spaced a tiny bit apart to account for the window frames.  Then I glue them back together in xLights in a model group for some effects and use them individually for other effects.