Hi!
This is my first time working with a raspberry pi 4 as I am a beginner at DIY projects in general so please bear with me.
I am using a ws2815, raspberry pi 4, a 3.3V to 5V level shifter, and a capture card. I am using the official raspberry pi power adapter and a separate power supply for the led strips (12V 10A). I have connected one of the pi's ground pins to the ground pin on the led strip so they share a common ground (It is in the - of the barrel jack). The BI is also unused.
I have done a couple of tests to confirm that everything is working as it is supposed to on the hardware side. When the system boots up, the swirl effect turns on and ALL of the LEDs are turned on and create a beautiful swirl effect. However, once the effect is over, the LEDs start acting weird.
I have set the correct amount of LEDs on each side (top, bottom, left and right), and set the correct input position. But for some reason the only leds that light up are most of the left and right-hand side strips and around 30% of the top and bottom strips. The rest of the LEDs lit up white until I turned on sparse processing which seemed to permanently turn the white "unused" LEDs off.
My layout is: 77 top, 78 bottom, 42 left & right (total 239, maximum LED count is set to 256, nothing changed when I tried setting it to 239)
The LEDs that are lit up match the top and bottom rows. The right (*upside down*) "L" shape corresponds to the bottom row and the left corresponds to the top row. However, the right L-shape only has 70 lit up LEDs and the left L-shape only has 69 lit up. The gaps are about 38 LEDs wide as well. I can mess around and shift the "functional" lines, but the width of the gaps remain (See the hyperion test video in the background for comparison).
When I touch the 330 ohm resistor connected to the data line, more LEDs start turning on and they all start spasming out. I have tried reinstalling everything but the same problem still prevailed.
I have tried looking everywhere for a solution but I have yet to find someone with a similar issue. I followed Justin Nelson's guide so I didn't install hyperbian but instead use the configuration on the website.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance! 