18.000px Tv ambient 3D room light by teensy

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High to all, my name is Buschi.

I am new here, and a absolute noob..
/ so my last electronic stick and try stuff was a "Kosmos e box kit" from 1980..

Please, i need some help by a part list for my first teensy project.

Basics:
I like to set up a complete 3D room ambient light for Tv + Gaming. + Party....

4 squares on top of the room, 1 room side wall, 1 top of the room long-light, and one big double-layer table.

All strips will be set from the sides into big double-chamber opal plastic boards for indirect illumination. (40m²)
I think 100m ws2812b 60leds/m 60ic/m / 6.000leds / 18.000px / 1.900w will be fine for startup.

I guess, like to split all it into 4 universes.

4x teensy 3.2 ?
1x "splitter" for this 4 boards ?
1x Video to teensy ?
// How can i say later, Tv Ambient light only on universe 1,2,3,4 or 1+3... or only 1-side left and right, front 2 and rear 3.. etc etc .... ?!?!?

if i not game or watch Tv,
i like to run presets from pictures, slideshow, or normal strip animation stuff like the Mate-Light...

And for Partys light magic to sound ...
But on DMX..?!?... that will be 35 !! universes?!?! WTF ;(
1x teensy to DMX ? / Better ideas ?

And sure later the presets and basic function's switchable by wifi app ..
1x Wifi to teensy ?

+ Which software will be best to set up and save as presets easy? Madrix? Glediator? ...???

The strips coming in 3 days, and in 10 days it must be ON!! / (b-day..)

Thanks for helping me & thinking about my fucking firstworldprobs. :rolleyes:
 
First part (table 90x250cm) are up and running.. but still questions left...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hwmg45cvvrp1l5v/mufu-table.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/52567w7fb9h2dlu/20160201_013323.mp4?dl=0
https://www.facebook.com/buschi.buschmann/videos/10205122675856820/

can i use multiple octo adaper on one teensy 3.2 ??

and i understand data-ground back to the power from strip... no prob..
pjrc.com/store/octo28_adaptor.html

1 driver
1 data wire
1 strip

BUT how i wire

1 driver
2 strips
2 data wires ?

and

2 driver
1 strip (over 5m)
1 data wire

:confused:
 
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If you are using the octoboard you can run 8 strips, where the the two 8 pin RJ 45 connectors each have a data a ground line. Then you separately connect power and ground from your massive power supply/s that are driving all of this (see the product and library pages for notes on powering this sort of setup).

You can stack two octo boards, but this will mean you are driving strips with the same pattern, if you are doing deliberatly (doubling the light output) than you might as well just split the output from one octoboard since the driver is quite capable of driving data to two strips.

For long strips the Octoboard is quite happy to drive data down the entire strand so that's easy since each pixel drives the next. The tricky part is not running out of memory and the fact that the strips themselves will take time to update as you get longer so frame rate will drop. Depending on the effects planned neither of those may be a problem (video walls trying for 60hz have problems, slow glows will be fine).

What is critical is getting power and ground to the strip every couple of meters, and making sure you size up the PSU and cables capable of driving that.
 
Buschi said:
can i use multiple octo adaper on one teensy 3.2 ??
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No. Each Teensy 3.2 works with a single Octo adaptor board.

BUT how i wire

1 driver
2 strips
2 data wires ?
Click to expand...

Well, the Octo board sends 8 separate data signals. Each can drive 1 LED strip.

So if you have 2 strips, use 2 of the 8 outputs. Leave the other 6 unused. Simple, right?
 
Good morning

OK so i must buy two teensys and 2 octo`s more.. THX ;)

Sure using two data wires is clear,
but then i must set 2 data gnd wires on one driver..
and "ghostbusters" say never cross data_gnd lines ?!?

and what is with
2 driver
1 strip (over 5m)
1 data wire

to which driver i go back?
Or did i must bridge the driver gnd`s ??

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mjy6l3674kz85wa/trafofoo.png?dl=0

In the morning i BBQed 5m strip "Yeehaa" Black is not Red ... :eek:

The max. i get on is 3 from 5 :( ... sounds like a borg number "gg"

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wx2c0f6zokriu1o/20160205_212435.mp4?dl=0
 
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Sorry for long time no posts & updates.

first i was busy to prepare for a big trade, going there, winning first price ;), get ill, lost OS on laptop...
http://phosphoderma.com/P_20160322_131238.jpg :rolleyes:

but now the next led field is ON.
390 x 6 leds / 6500 x 50mm,
the only field in the project with led direction face2face, matrix...

here a view...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tnr0rc9o8s9slev/V_20160327_012624_s01_s01.mp4?dl=0

but i lost this nice sketch, fade line by line from light to color ...
did anybody can tell me which sample sketch it is? :confused:

 
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Buschi said:
but i lost this nice sketch, fade line by line from light to color ...
did anybody can tell me which sample sketch it is? :confused:
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I have no idea which program that is. I can tell you it's not any of the stand-alone examples that come with OctoWS2811. Maybe you were using FastLED? Very difficult to understand your question....
 
"yeaa" i know hat this is more guess then known_ answers, if i can only present a video ..

and yes perhaps it is a fastled sample...
i am still looking and testing colors...
buy the way i found a lot of colors that deliver a grey2orange or other nice fades by using the standard octo Basic Test.
most colors give a single color but some make nice stuff.
sure i guess only on my strips_production_charge and with my power supply...

here some of them perhaps anybody can test if he get same color fade?..

/* OctoWS2811 BasicTest.ino - Basic RGB LED Test

#define BLUE2CORALLE 0x302B71
#define GREY2ORANGE 0x627565
#define BLAU2GRAU 0x1429DE


but i have still on one board the code running,
is there a way to
A) backup and rescue it for later to put as preset on SD?
B) re compiling it?
 
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