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Hi Nick great Video, but i am having problems after i put in the info for the ETH0. FPP asking for a reboot and after i do this it cannot connect via the wifi, not sure if I am missing something?

Do you have a video on how to set up a mega tree with 2 receivers i tried to daisy chain it but either half light up or it lights up backwards. I can make it work if i run 2 cat 5 cables. When i drag the tree on the visualizer it takes up 17-24 automatically and it doesn't let me set up a B option for it

I feel for you. I'm just north of Tampa, FL. I wasn't planning on back to back hurricanes this year, let alone losing power and being stuck unable to go anywhere. I'm thinking Halloween is going to be canceled this year for me, due to circumstances wayyy beyond my control. My 10 ft wide by 3 ft deep by 16 foot tall scary tree stump I was building is just not going to make it. I'm two weeks behind and there's not enough hours in the day to get it built and painted. Oh well, there's always next year.

Thanks for sharing. Best of luck getting everything complete.

Your videos have inspired us to do our own Halloween show this year. Hope the weather clears up for you soon! Can't wait to see your show

Thank you. Trying to go from LOR to XLights. This cleared up what a lot of the effects do for me.

You should try the shader effects! Just click the download button and choose one, my favorite is the black cherry cosmos one!

I don’t get it my Windows is connected to Colorlight Panel with RJ45 and it doesn’t find it I downloaded LEDVISION and tried X Lights but no luck,I look up on TH-cam but everybody shows you after install

Do you remember what size you made the Show Logo you put on the SD card?

I got a F16-v2r and was actually feeling good about it until I saw this video 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you!

another great video, have just ordered my first Falcon board which is this one, I may reach out to get it setup.. LOL .. thanks for you info question where do you get adapter for power supply?

Hey buddy I wanted to let you know I'll be doing my first show this year, from 1 youtube to another thanks for all your content YOU make the BEST pixel guides on the internet!

Can you do a video how to use the raspberry pie for a show . What do you do after setting it up . Do u still use the xlights or you put the sequence on a SD card.

This guy is awesome! So entertaining, seriously! Well done! and Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you for creating these videos on receivers....they're incredibly helpful! If you're using two SRX1 receivers chained together and they're assigned ports 13-16, does that mean that you can no longer use ports 13-16 on the board of the F16vv4?

How do you run the falcon player on the raspberry pi and the controller for the pixels

Really great job explaining this controller and a very informative video!! Thank you!!

Hi, I’ve been unable to get the fog machine to work dmx-wise :( I followed the steps in this and your other dmx tutorial and it still doesn’t seem to work. Is there a specific mode the fog machine has to be set to to accept dmx?

Hi, can you do a video review on the PiCap V2 I was thinking of using this to create a smaller set up with this controller, cheers

Brilliant, thank you!!

Is it possible to program bracelets individually so that if the bracelet was assigned to a specific I could put a design to them?

Nice. I bet you could get away with using 2x3’s if you want to go cheaper. I always thought those plastic pieces were expensive but if you can just keep using the same pieces every year I guess it’s worth it. Just keep the pixels attached. I wanted to do arches around the plastic picket fence in my front yard but I’ll have to go with custom lengths to fit in between the vertical sections.

Awesome! Ill be watching! Thank you!

I have this Colorlight Board hooked up to two panels that’s hooked up to Raspberry Pi 4 thru RJ45 cable then on a Windows Computer I’m running FPP with LEDVision but no cursor is on panel what am I missing(waiting on new card

plz do window outlines!

window outlines!

please do window outlines!

i would love to see window outlines

would love to see window outlines!

I was just thinking i need a video on how to make these :) cheers dude

great video, been watching your collection very helpful. one newbie question which end of a string of lights in node (light) one? Just to sure i don't start at wrong end and have to redo it. Thanks again

Excellent information. Thank you very much.

Nice job with the new series! Alot of thought about what kind of props people want to use. It might be nice to have a link to one of your other vids regarding sequences or wiring to understand how the chain is going to light up and work in the show later. Also, drill a small hole thru your pipe (1/8" maybe) at the ends and use either zip ties, wire, a screw or a cotter pin to secure the end of the pipe to the board. That will keep it from popping out of the base. I'm in the process of teaching myself how to weld. I'm building a large set piece for this year's Halloween display. I'll try to put something up once it's done

That drill bit is called a spade bit. The trademarked name that people use is Speedbor.

Thanks for all of the great info, but.....the EXACT middle is ABOUT 5 1/2 inches? an EXACT measurement is never ABOUT a measurement

Ohhhh snaapppp.... IDK what happened but I drifted off for a second but I suddenly found myself hitting the subscribe button.... and moments later I drifted off again only to find myself hitting the like button! LOL.... smoooooooth....

You're awesome. The way you explain is priceless. Even English is not my mother lenguaje i can understand. Gracias, Merci

Just found your channel. I am late to the party obviously.

FANTASTIC SERIES. I have been watching a bunch of your content repeatedly. You have a great style and present useful information without dragging it out and lot of B.S. I REALLY appreciate that. I personally don't care how long the content is as long as it is not fluff and cliff hangers. Just finished putting together a couple of small controller setups, a Raspberry Pi 4 show controller running FFP, assembling a dedicated show network and just finished the tutorial on Xlights. Have started the first sequence and started the episode on the Xlights effects as a continuation of working the sequence. I am stilling the design phase for our display and I have been thinking about arches and that style of prop and now this gets posted. It is like you are reading my mind. Dang! Had to watch this before continuing the rest of the saga. LOL Do you know about how many pixels are used in beginning setups? I realize it is all relative to the size of the project. Just wondering if there a general number that it takes to produce a decent show for the first year of doing this? Also is there a minimum number of pixels that can used to produce a good show? Got to get back to watch this video and then back to the others. Thanks Nick. Wish you and yours the best.

B E G I N N E R S ---> Do yourself a HUGE favor. WATCH THE ENTIRE VIDEO FIRST before attempting to work in Xlights by following along step by step. I messed up by watching a section and then attempting to "replicate" that section on my computer. The big mess up was that after I got to the sequencing section and I selected a music track, relevant to my project, and applied an effect, relevant to my project, to a timing section. Everything worked as instructed. Then my OCD kicked in. I wanted to modify the effect and I got ahead of myself as I knew what I wanted the effect to do and and spent a lot of time, seriously... a... lot... of... time..., trying to figure out how to make it do one little thing. I finally figured it out so I resumed the video. A few minutes and a couple of sections later he covered exactly what I wanted to know in the video. D A N G ! ! ! I felt like a total dufus. As I am a complete beginner the instructions in this video appear to be fairly well thought out and complete for someone just starting out. If only I had watched the whole video first I could have saved time. Watched the rest of the video and thought I might take a moment to write this comment as maybe it would help someone. Nick is great at explaining this stuff and I have been locked onto this channel going through step by step how to setup and create a basic light show. I wish everyone good luck in setting up their show and big thanks to Nick for creating this content.

Great video!! Thanks for sharing

Great job! Very informative

I'm really enjoying your videos you have inspired me to start my first Christmas light show thank you for all you do. 😊

I have 5 of the medium arches using 3/4 pex for the arch into 1/2" pvc fittings and pipe for the base. You just need to heat up the end of the pex to get it to fit into the pvc, i used a blow drier but a heat gun would work well too.

If you have a switch local to the show player and controller like shown at 6:10 then it will switch all of the packets between the two devices and your router will not need to play a role unless one of the devices attempts to reach the gateway, or the internet. This is one of the main reasons Layer 2 switches exist. In this setup, the rest of your home network will not be impacted by the high data throughput between the player and controller.

This video is awesome thank you! Do you happen to know how to make edits to multiple effects at once? Lets say I had 30 seconds of shockwave on two different props and I wanted all of there colors changed, how can i do this all at once. Right now I have to click on each individual effect to make the change, thank you for your help!

So where my pi is located it gets a weaker to no wifi signal where my laptop in the same location is fine. When I'm outside trying to make show adjustments I can't as the pi is not getting enough signal. Then I have to open the garage door, take the laptop into the garage to make the changes then come back out, close the garage door to see the show. Is there something with the pi's address that is making it have a weaker wifi signal then the laptop? Would changing the ip address of the pi help with a stronger wifi signal? Is there another way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? I run projection mapping shows so the pi and projector are in an enclosed box with plexiglass window facing house and the back wall/door of the enclosure is open when I'm making my changes. There is a schedule set in fpp which always seems to work on the pi even though when I'm out there trying to make changes it never has enough wifi power....baffles me!!!

Dumb question,So I'm assuming if I'm trying to connect to a controller I can't access it if my computer does not have a ethernet port and only a wifi computer