crees
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Yes! I am afraid I ended up somewhere in the deep end.

Its going to be one of those your mileage will vary. One thing that happens in long runs is the signal logic not only can get noise in the line but also suffer from voltage drop. That voltage drop can can make it...

TOMv Can you take a clear picture of the board with all the pins of the K66?

All good Brad. The octo board is good to get your feet wet and quickly connect to pixels using common easily accessible materials like the cat5/6 cables etc. Its not really intended for long runs etc. I have...

I tend to dance around peoples answers. I will break my response down directly Yes on daisy chain. Keep in mind there are limitations! The limitations are Frames perscond / how many pixels are in that string. ...

My last Christmas light show I used 6 custom Teensy controllers with a custom breakout boards all ran from xlights/LOR. My farthest pixel was about 15 feet. most were within that range. crees

What you have will get you started in playing with pixels and code. To make a Christmas light show will take some more engineering and parts. Distances will vary but I have gone up to 90ft inside testing but was...

Get a large usb hub and run tycommander to manage and deploy to many teensies. I developed a custom usb backplane to manage and Maintain firmware to my t3.2 boards.

Hi please take a look at this project. Uses Teensy and will work with jinx. https://ackalyte.com/products/basetee

Perhaps tycommander could offer some of the functionality your looking for.

Generally you don’t want to omit caps feeding the MCU. They are essential in filtering out unwanted frequency and ripple disturbances etc. Omitting them may contribute to the teensy acting erratically. You also have...

I could possibly help if you don’t find someone. I have made several custom boards with the teensy bootloader and chip. I’m in the the middle of a project at the moment but later next month i should be more free to...

This is very doable and I have done it. The important question is, are your driving this via serial or by network protocol such as artnet or sACN. The octows2811 code will be common on both but the serial or Ethernet...

Could also be a ground loop issue. I have seen similar issues in the rs485 stuff. On the rs485 project I am working on I ended up using a DC / DC power isolator and opto isolators to prevent potential ground loops. ...