I have lots of APA102 5m strips, and I have been asked to do a bit of a project, I have played around a bit and I have a solution to it, but was curious what other people's view would be on it.
I will be installing 20 x 3m strips side by side. Each strip is separated to the next by about 30cm.
There are three sections . So the first lot of 10 strips will be section one. The next 5 would be section two and the final 5 will be section three.
Each of the section I will use a RS485 link to link to another Teensy(because I now know how to do this)
Then with the code I can say Teensy 1 do this, Teensy 2 do that and Teensy 3 do whatever
I will control them via bluetooth so you can turn on/off for the sections, but each section I would like the same thing to happen.
I know a lot of users use the WS2811/WS2812 with the Octo WS2811 to sync many strips together and in essence this is what I would like to do, but what I have outlined work / is a good method of doing what I need doing, or should i rethink and approach in a different way?
Your thoughts are appreciated
I will be installing 20 x 3m strips side by side. Each strip is separated to the next by about 30cm.
There are three sections . So the first lot of 10 strips will be section one. The next 5 would be section two and the final 5 will be section three.
Each of the section I will use a RS485 link to link to another Teensy(because I now know how to do this)
Then with the code I can say Teensy 1 do this, Teensy 2 do that and Teensy 3 do whatever
I will control them via bluetooth so you can turn on/off for the sections, but each section I would like the same thing to happen.
I know a lot of users use the WS2811/WS2812 with the Octo WS2811 to sync many strips together and in essence this is what I would like to do, but what I have outlined work / is a good method of doing what I need doing, or should i rethink and approach in a different way?
Your thoughts are appreciated