Your explanation of how to set up the wlan and eth0 is the best I have seen. The other videos I have seen just show the eth0 and I guess the authors assume you will figure out the rest. I finally have the FPP Pi4 ready to try. Thanks for the big help.
I know I've gotten lots of comments about the music being too loud. This video I made a year ago so I wasn't the best at editing, but now I know to turn the music down to make it easier to hear. Thank you for the advice!
I dont read my emails too often so I might not respond, but my email is on the about page. The best way to ask a question is here but whatever you want.
Hi, i have a question on playlists in FPP. I had created a projection mapping playlist for 2022 Halloween of videos that I project onto my home, the bad thing is a bunch of my videos were deleted in my computer by accident so the only ones i have now are on a 16GB SD card that's formatted for FPP. The problem now is this years shows will not fit on that SD card so I'm trying to figure out if the shows that are on the 16gb card can be transferred on to a 32gb card that I have. not sure if this is possible or not but would be extremely helpful if it can. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Ron
So there's only one way I can think of doing this, and that would be to download all your music/sequence/video/etc files off the FPP (you can do this in the file manager and clicking download for each file) and then download a backup to your computer of all the fpp settings. You can make a backup by going into the status control tab, and going to FPP backup. Then under the JSON backup section, set the backup area to all, then hit download. Once you've got all the files off FPP and onto a computer, you'll have to flash a new FPP to the 32GB sd card, and put that into the PI (or whatever device you are using). Then once you get the FPP on, skip the initial setup and go to FPP backup. Go to restore backup and upload the JSON file you downloaded, then select all and restore configuration. Once that's done, you can expand the file system, and upload all your sequence/music/video files you downloaded. If you have any other questions feel free to ask!
@@How2Pixel awesome! Thanks! I am going to use the F16v4 this year and wasn’t exactly sure on how to program everything. Some people say DDP and some e1.31. Thanks again for all your videos. They are super helpful!
Hi! Your videos have been super helpful. Any idea why my controller interface’s test mode is working but the FPP interface test mode or sequences don’t? The IP address of the controller appears to be correct (it works when I type it in the browser and that number matches the output settings in FPP). Seems like my FPP isn’t communicating with the controller. I used FPP connect in XLights so doesn’t appear to be an error in entering info.
Hmm do you have the universes and channels set up correctly on the controller and FPP? What type of controller do you have? Even if the network is set up correctly, you still need to set up the channel outputs on FPP and also the channel inputs on your controller for the data to be sent.
@@How2Pixel I believe the channels and universes are set up correctly because I can test from the controller's interface...I am working with the Falcon V4. The output on FPP is the controller with its IP address listed. Perhaps there is an error on the controller's input tab... Is there a specific action I am supposed to select?
Hmm what I'm trying to figure out is if it's a problem on the FPP side or controller side. When you run a sequence or test from FPP, do you see packets coming in on the status page of the controller? If you go to the bottom of the status page on the controller, there's the E1.31 packets received section that shows all your universes of data the controller is waiting for. When you run something from FPP, does the packet count go up? If it does, that means the controller is at least receiving the data.
Ohhh does your controller and FPP have a direct ethernet connection between each other? E1.31 data has a lot to it and it cannot be sent over wifi so you have to use ethernet. So is your FPP hardwired directly into the controller? Or hardwired into a router/network switch that the controller is also hardwired into? If not you need to use an ethernet connection between them, whether directly or through a router, otherwise it won't work. Let me know if this helps!
hi there congraduation for 1000 members i just want to know in fpp on pi is there a way when you play the sequence is there a way to see it playing on tv and when i plug pi 4 it says under voltage is that ok thank you
Thank you so much! For your first question I'm not really sure what you mean. Do you mean show the fpp UI on a tv? Or have a message pop up saying a sequence is playing? But for the second question it's not the best idea to under power the pi. I'd highly recommend buying a power supply made for a raspberry pi 4
Great video, I followed all the steps, and did setup the scheduler, but didn't start playing the playlist sequences, as saying under Remote Status, " Waiting For MultiSync commands, could you explain it,, thank you
@@How2Pixel Thanks, Not using Raspberry Pi, I"m using Kulp controller, but all fixed as under PLAYLIST / COMMAND ARGS it was empty and no play list was selected, also FPP Mode was selected as REMOTE not Player, that's why didn't start the Scheduler and under Status/Control - Status Page was showing the Waiting For MultiSync commands message
if you run a wifi range extender do you have to set up fpp for that? as i have already installed it to my routers wifi but i have a seperate wifi on my laptop showing the extender when i switch between both on my laptop fpp still works but Im not sure if the pi will use the extender when placed in the yard thanks
Hopefully I understood your question right but basically you're saying you have a wifi extender and it has a separate ssid (wifi name) then your main wifi. You should be able to connect the pi to the extender with no problem, but I'm not sure if your computer will be able to connect to it if your using that on your main wifi. I would assume it'd work but I've never used wifi extenders in my show. As long as you put in the right ssid and password on the pi then it should hopefully work.
Hello, so I finally got all my pixels in and I ran into a problem, out put one,2,3,4 of my controller all work but when i go to play a sequence only 30 lights on output 3 works? my controller config should be good, don't know what could be causing this.
So there's a number of things to check. Test the lights on a different port to make sure that the pixels aren't dead. It's very common for people to think there config is messed up, when its actually a dead pixel. Second, double check the controllers config. What controller are you using?
@@How2Pixel all ports work, and the controller that I am using is the alpha pix 4, its weird bc when I do display testing on FPP it works great, but when I play a sequence they output 1,2,both work as they should but output 3 only 30 out of the 100 lights work and I have no idea what is going on?
I really wish I could help, but i only use falcon controllers so I'm not sure how those work. You could ask the question on the falcon Christmas forum, and they might be able to help you there.
Do you know if you can use GPIO Pins on a Pi 4 and Falcon Player v5.2 to run a Megatree or do i need a PiHat? I get the lights to come on, but can get to run a sequence. Thanks!
I honestly have no idea. I don't run lights directly on a pi so I don't know much about that stuff. I think I have heard though it's better to use a pi hat that way you dont put to many amps on the board. But I'm probably not the right person to ask.
Could you please explain what you mean by talk to the controller? Do you mean to use the network on the controller to access it or just to get the light data to the controller?
@@How2Pixel So I guess I need to know how I access the Falcon Player AND the Falcon controller at the same time remotely, so I can do all my sequencing/ect. on my mac and just send it to the Pi4. Make sense?
Ok so your talking about connecting to the controller through the pi as a network bridge right? If that's what you mean, I really didn't explain it in this video because there's so many steps. I feel like it needs it's own video. So I'm not the best at explaining how to set that up, so you can check out this article I found here: www.brianhensley.net/2017/10/network-setup-falcon-player-fpp-falcon-f16v3-controller.html. this is what I used to setup my network and it worked for me. I hope this helps you!
No if you want to use just the pi without the controller you can set it up by it self. If you want to use your controller I only know how to set it up with the pi. But there are other ways to set it up if you want to.
Hey I created a thread on Falcon Christmas Forum that shows a more in depth explanation of my issue and its called Don't know how to setup the outputs of my controller in FPP? in fpp, if you can take a look at that bc it does have images and if you have any idea plz respond to the thread, thanks.
@@How2Pixel Quick question, so on output one I have my singing skull hooked up to and that has 170 lights so I have 30 lights left just tied to the back, bc I connected 2 strands off 100 and only using 170 for the skull. Anyway, in my controller config should should I have it so it says that their are 170 pixels connected to port 1 or should I have it so it says I have 200 pixels connected?
The content on this channel is useful and well presented. Thanks for doing this. Wish you and your's much success!
Great job!! Clear instructions and explanations.. You should do more.
Your explanation of how to set up the wlan and eth0 is the best I have seen. The other videos I have seen just show the eth0 and I guess the authors assume you will figure out the rest. I finally have the FPP Pi4 ready to try. Thanks for the big help.
You're welcome, glad I could help you out!
Good job I got my beginner Star display to work!
This kid is brilliant. Well done so proud of your knowledge! Thank you
Thank you once again for your great tutorial. I just set up my Pi with FPP. works great.
Glad the video was helpful!
Great video, very informative. Keep up the good work.
Great Video! Thanks from germany
Thanks mate, great video. Love the explanation
Thank you for posting. Your video is a good source
Thank you!
Thanks for this tutorial
AMAZING VIDEO!!!!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Very useful but please turn that music off. Anyone, like me, who is hard of hearing struggles when there are two sound sources i.e. voice and music
I know I've gotten lots of comments about the music being too loud. This video I made a year ago so I wasn't the best at editing, but now I know to turn the music down to make it easier to hear. Thank you for the advice!
thanks!
Thank u. Can’t wait to try it. I may need to ask a question here and there Do U take email questions ?
I dont read my emails too often so I might not respond, but my email is on the about page. The best way to ask a question is here but whatever you want.
Great Video. I’m a new fan!
Thanks! Welcome to the channel!
@@How2Pixel When will you be making a video on how to control the Falcon Controller wirelessly thru the Raspberry Pi?
I'm not sure. I haven't used my controller that way before so I'm honestly not quite sure how it works.
Great video
Thanks!
Great info...but background soundtrack makes it hard to hear well.
I've noticed that lately and I hope to fix it in the upcoming videos. Thanks for letting me know!
Hi, i have a question on playlists in FPP. I had created a projection mapping playlist for 2022 Halloween of videos that I project onto my home, the bad thing is a bunch of my videos were deleted in my computer by accident so the only ones i have now are on a 16GB SD card that's formatted for FPP. The problem now is this years shows will not fit on that SD card so I'm trying to figure out if the shows that are on the 16gb card can be transferred on to a 32gb card that I have. not sure if this is possible or not but would be extremely helpful if it can. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Ron
So there's only one way I can think of doing this, and that would be to download all your music/sequence/video/etc files off the FPP (you can do this in the file manager and clicking download for each file) and then download a backup to your computer of all the fpp settings. You can make a backup by going into the status control tab, and going to FPP backup. Then under the JSON backup section, set the backup area to all, then hit download. Once you've got all the files off FPP and onto a computer, you'll have to flash a new FPP to the 32GB sd card, and put that into the PI (or whatever device you are using). Then once you get the FPP on, skip the initial setup and go to FPP backup. Go to restore backup and upload the JSON file you downloaded, then select all and restore configuration. Once that's done, you can expand the file system, and upload all your sequence/music/video files you downloaded. If you have any other questions feel free to ask!
Thanks for the video. Quick question. How do you decided the setting to run e1.32 or DDP? Thanks again!
Thank you! I just use e1.31 cause that's what only works on most controllers and it's the most popular.
@@How2Pixel awesome! Thanks! I am going to use the F16v4 this year and wasn’t exactly sure on how to program everything. Some people say DDP and some e1.31. Thanks again for all your videos. They are super helpful!
That controller may work with ddp, but I know it definitely works with e1.31 so I just use that.
And I'm glad the videos help!
Hi! Your videos have been super helpful. Any idea why my controller interface’s test mode is working but the FPP interface test mode or sequences don’t? The IP address of the controller appears to be correct (it works when I type it in the browser and that number matches the output settings in FPP). Seems like my FPP isn’t communicating with the controller. I used FPP connect in XLights so doesn’t appear to be an error in entering info.
Hmm do you have the universes and channels set up correctly on the controller and FPP? What type of controller do you have? Even if the network is set up correctly, you still need to set up the channel outputs on FPP and also the channel inputs on your controller for the data to be sent.
@@How2Pixel I believe the channels and universes are set up correctly because I can test from the controller's interface...I am working with the Falcon V4.
The output on FPP is the controller with its IP address listed. Perhaps there is an error on the controller's input tab... Is there a specific action I am supposed to select?
Hmm what I'm trying to figure out is if it's a problem on the FPP side or controller side. When you run a sequence or test from FPP, do you see packets coming in on the status page of the controller? If you go to the bottom of the status page on the controller, there's the E1.31 packets received section that shows all your universes of data the controller is waiting for. When you run something from FPP, does the packet count go up? If it does, that means the controller is at least receiving the data.
@@How2Pixel Just tried this, a pop-up on the controller interface says says "wi-fi received E1.31 data, wifi cannot process E.31"
Ohhh does your controller and FPP have a direct ethernet connection between each other? E1.31 data has a lot to it and it cannot be sent over wifi so you have to use ethernet. So is your FPP hardwired directly into the controller? Or hardwired into a router/network switch that the controller is also hardwired into? If not you need to use an ethernet connection between them, whether directly or through a router, otherwise it won't work. Let me know if this helps!
hi there congraduation for 1000 members i just want to know in fpp on pi is there a way when you play the sequence is there a way to see it playing on tv and when i plug pi 4 it says under voltage is that ok thank you
Thank you so much! For your first question I'm not really sure what you mean. Do you mean show the fpp UI on a tv? Or have a message pop up saying a sequence is playing? But for the second question it's not the best idea to under power the pi. I'd highly recommend buying a power supply made for a raspberry pi 4
Great video, I followed all the steps, and did setup the scheduler, but didn't start playing the playlist sequences, as saying under Remote Status, " Waiting For MultiSync commands, could you explain it,, thank you
Did you use 2 raspberry pi's or are you just using one? If you're using one, then it needs to be set to master
@@How2Pixel Thanks, Not using Raspberry Pi, I"m using Kulp controller, but all fixed as under PLAYLIST /
COMMAND ARGS it was empty and no play list was selected, also FPP Mode was selected as REMOTE not Player, that's why didn't start the Scheduler and under Status/Control - Status Page was showing the Waiting For MultiSync commands message
So any raspberry I can be used? Does the amount of ram makes any significant difference? 🤔
I think you can use any pi newer then a pi 2. So a pi 3 and 4. The ram doesn't really matter cause all my pis are 1gb ram
if you run a wifi range extender do you have to set up fpp for that? as i have already installed it to my routers wifi but i have a seperate wifi on my laptop showing the extender when i switch between both on my laptop fpp still works but Im not sure if the pi will use the extender when placed in the yard
thanks
Hopefully I understood your question right but basically you're saying you have a wifi extender and it has a separate ssid (wifi name) then your main wifi. You should be able to connect the pi to the extender with no problem, but I'm not sure if your computer will be able to connect to it if your using that on your main wifi. I would assume it'd work but I've never used wifi extenders in my show. As long as you put in the right ssid and password on the pi then it should hopefully work.
Are shows actually stored on the sd card or loaded into fpp?
It's technically stored on the sd card because the sd card is the only storage a raspberry pi has.
@@How2Pixel can something like a projection show mp4 file be extracted from the sd card if it was loaded into fpp?
Hello, so I finally got all my pixels in and I ran into a problem, out put one,2,3,4 of my controller all work but when i go to play a sequence only 30 lights on output 3 works? my controller config should be good, don't know what could be causing this.
So there's a number of things to check. Test the lights on a different port to make sure that the pixels aren't dead. It's very common for people to think there config is messed up, when its actually a dead pixel. Second, double check the controllers config. What controller are you using?
@@How2Pixel all ports work, and the controller that I am using is the alpha pix 4, its weird bc when I do display testing on FPP it works great, but when I play a sequence they output 1,2,both work as they should but output 3 only 30 out of the 100 lights work and I have no idea what is going on?
I really wish I could help, but i only use falcon controllers so I'm not sure how those work. You could ask the question on the falcon Christmas forum, and they might be able to help you there.
@@How2Pixel ok thanks
video is pretty good but turn the background music down.
Thanks for the tip!
Do you know if you can use GPIO Pins on a Pi 4 and Falcon Player v5.2 to run a Megatree or do i need a PiHat? I get the lights to come on, but can get to run a sequence. Thanks!
I honestly have no idea. I don't run lights directly on a pi so I don't know much about that stuff. I think I have heard though it's better to use a pi hat that way you dont put to many amps on the board. But I'm probably not the right person to ask.
You need a pi hat or a data level shifter
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So I'm still confused on how to get the F16v3 to talk to the FPP player on the Pi4?
Could you please explain what you mean by talk to the controller? Do you mean to use the network on the controller to access it or just to get the light data to the controller?
@@How2Pixel So I guess I need to know how I access the Falcon Player AND the Falcon controller at the same time remotely, so I can do all my sequencing/ect. on my mac and just send it to the Pi4. Make sense?
Ok so your talking about connecting to the controller through the pi as a network bridge right? If that's what you mean, I really didn't explain it in this video because there's so many steps. I feel like it needs it's own video. So I'm not the best at explaining how to set that up, so you can check out this article I found here: www.brianhensley.net/2017/10/network-setup-falcon-player-fpp-falcon-f16v3-controller.html. this is what I used to setup my network and it worked for me. I hope this helps you!
So nothing will work unless u set up ur controller to?
No if you want to use just the pi without the controller you can set it up by it self. If you want to use your controller I only know how to set it up with the pi. But there are other ways to set it up if you want to.
Hey I created a thread on Falcon Christmas Forum that shows a more in depth explanation of my issue and its called Don't know how to setup the outputs of my controller in FPP? in fpp, if you can take a look at that bc it does have images and if you have any idea plz respond to the thread, thanks.
Ok, sure thing.
@@How2Pixel Quick question, so on output one I have my singing skull hooked up to and that has 170 lights so I have 30 lights left just tied to the back, bc I connected 2 strands off 100 and only using 170 for the skull. Anyway, in my controller config should should I have it so it says that their are 170 pixels connected to port 1 or should I have it so it says I have 200 pixels connected?
Right here is the link to the forum falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php/topic,14362.new.html#new
It would be set for 170 unless you have another prop hooked onto that afterwords. If you did you would have to configure virtual strings.
@@How2Pixel That's what i have it set to and I have no idea why on output 3 only 30 out of the 100 lights light up, I am so confused?
How to reset the password to raspberry pi 4 to acses to fpp . Falcon password no t working
Thank you
The only way I know how to do it is to wipe the sd card and start over. Sorry.
Make Video on FPP SD Card Standalone Mode sequence player
That's what this video was about. Do you mean standalone mode for a controller?
@@How2Pixel yes
I was planning on making a video about that soon.
@@How2Pixel will wait for the video
What does fpp sams card stand alone mean? Or do
Lower background music
You did bot show LOR on output
Sorry about that. I would've but I dont know much about it and didn't want to mess up or confuse anyone.