My son and I decided to take on a project. We saw DrZzz video on the Hyperion light setup, decided we'd give it a go. Headaches from the gitgo, but I suspect a hardware issue, that maybe others have figured out. I am new to the coding scene since my days of geocities webpage in html, when I was a teenager. . . So I pretty much know nothing.
Setup
We loaded Hyperion 7 on a RPi0W (7 because we could not get 9 or 8 to interface Hyperion setup page in the browser). Set everything up from what we feel is correct on the Hyperion setup (copied DrZzz). Running Google Chromecast into a HDMI capture card, to the TV, pulling signal from the USB to the Pi, powering a 244 LED string of W2812B lights with 15A computer brick.
Issue
We are getting flicker on the top string, about halfway, then solid color for most of the total strip. 7/8ths is lighted, the end is not. All colors lighted seem to be random. I figured it was just too much draw for the length, and ran another 5v line and soldered it in halfway through the run. No avail.
Ideas? Do I just need to boost my logic output from my GPIO pin? Do I have bad LED strip?
Also any manually entered colors, or anything else from the Hyperion page seems to do nothing.
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