I am glad that you are ok now. May I kindly ask how did you find out your first led is broken?
I took a small strip and connected it to test and that worked perfectly fine. I connect that small test strip to first corner of the rest of the LEDS (bottom right corner) and all the LED started to work so I know something was wrong with the initial connection. So after I tried to cut the first LED everything worked 
@Jon, Did you check your LED connectors if they are OK? Because I know very well some 4pin connectors does not work and you have to solder cables.
Yes it is working now thanks! The first LED was faulty and so cutting off the first LED fixed everything
If I want to run Hyperion with 200 LEDs + one Philips hue bulb in the corner, is there any way to have the hyperion config recognize the Philips Hue bulb as another LED so instead of 200 LEDs it will think of it as 201 LEDs counting the Hue bulb? From reading the wiki it seems that I will need two separate Hyperion services running with two separate configs one for Hue and one for the APA102 LED strips. Please correct me if there is an easier way to do this. Thanks
Hi everyone, thank you so much for the feedback! So I ended up getting it to work! I tried to test with a small length of LED strip as you said and it worked perfectly! I was so happy. When I attached that small length of the LED strip to first corner (bottom right) using the clip-on connector everything was working still! So I knew that something was wrong with the first LED and so I cut off the first LED and attached the clip on to the next LED beside that and everything was working! Thanks for everyone's help
Jon, it doesn't give very clear idea fromfyour photo but diddyou double check connections between cables and the card? For example Ono your photo, I couldn't make sure where the black wire comingcout of led is going? Etc.. Etc...
Hi I've double checked the connections and all the lights do light up when I remove the GND wire from the PI but for some reason when I'm sending the signals from the PI it doesn't seem to work. I am also using a level shifter. Can you please take a look at this picture to see if my wiring is okay?
Apa102'c strips are 5V devices. While you might get them to respond to a Rpi's 3.3V SPI signals, this is not a guaranteed thing.
For low-voltage systems such as Rpi, a logic level shifter (e.g. 74AHCT125) is recommended for both the data and clock pins.
Lots of good info about "level shifter" on this forum.
Hi I've tried with the level shifter but still doesn't seem to be sending any signal 
When I remove the GND wire from PI all the lights light up so I know that the lights are working. Can you please take a look at my wiring?
Hi everyone,
I've double checked my wiring and seems like everything is wired correctly. The lights all turn on bright white when I hold the DI and CI wires (Maybe my hands are giving it enough boost to send a signal to turn on?) but nothing responds when I have it hooked up to my pi. My config file is here and my hyperion log is here . The log might be messy because I was starting/stopping hyperion and sending different config files to see if I could make anything work. Seems like nothing is lighting up. I checked the SPI and with this and it seems to be working fine
I can't seem to get any of my lights to light up and I'm not sure why
Can someone take a look at my wiring to see if I wired something wrong? 
I tried to install Hyperion on my Raspberry pi 2 using Hypercon however when I try to send the config I don't see it show up under /etc/hyperion
SSH Log when clicking on "Send config" in Hypercon:
sftp Send Hyperion Config - Sourcepath: C:/HyperCon, Targetpath: /storage/.config/, Filename: hyperion.config.json
Also when I try to take a screenshot from UTV007 Grabber in Hypercon it tells me that No picture found check ssh traffic.
ssh out: killall hyperiond 2>/dev/null ; /storage/hyperion/bin/hyperion-v4l2.sh --device /dev/video0 --video-standard NTSC --input 0 --width -1 --height -1 --crop-left 0 --crop-right 0 --crop-top 0 --crop-bottom 0 --size-decimator 1 --frame-decimator 2 --red-threshold 0.0 --green-threshold 0.0 --blue-threshold 0.0 --screenshot
ssh out: bash: /storage/hyperion/bin/hyperion-v4l2.sh: No such file or directory
sftp getFile(./screenshot.png, java.awt.Image)
Thank you!
Alles anzeigenSorry i forgot the L Shape with my long explanation. :omg:
But you need the small PCB not provided https://fr.aliexpress.com/item…5pcs-lot/32811243536.html
Glad to help you in your project
The PCB You linked is 10mm. If I take the PCB from my amazon link I sent originally (10mm) and solder each connection directly to the strip instead of using the connector then will it be okay?
Hello, Thank you very much for the detailed explanation! I think because this is my first project I want to make sure I try to keep it simple. I think I will just use my APA102C to directly plug it into the Raspberry Pi in order to avoid complexity. Maybe in the future I will use NodeMCU because the video you showed me looks very cool to use Over the Air technology. I think in my case I will start with SPI Mode. Can you please double check before I buy is this L Shape Connector one that works with my APA102C Lighting? It seems to have 4PIN but I'm not sure is it 12mm RGB.
Thanks and I'm excited to build this new project
Hi,
If i can help you with your config. A friend of mind find a new product, the Hdmi VideGrabber. I test it and it's working great.
Sorry Jon i pollute your post lol.
Hi! Thank you so much for your response. Sorry I had bought some parts already before I saw your post So I got the APA102C LED. I hope this will not be a problem.
I also was wondering is
can you tell me the difference between SPI and WPM PWM Mode in your example? I was wondering which mode I need for the APA102C. Also I read up about maybe I need to get a level shifter? Do you think I need this? I'm very new and I'm not sure how to use this level shifter. Do I need arduino? Your post says Optional Arduino or NodeMCU microcontroller for connecting LEDs. What is this one for? Sorry for so many questions
Please don't say sorry because your post is very helpful. Thank you
Hi Everyone, I've been doing a lot of research and I've just got a couple questions about my setup before buying the parts.
Just wanted to double check if I need to wire every Grd/5V separately on each of the 4 strips (similar to this post)
Or would I have enough power to power the all the LED lights by just connecting the ground/5V from the end and beginning of the strips. Also wanted to know if I need to change up my parts list or if I'm missing anything. Thanks so much!
LED information
106cm x 63cm (Total LED's required) = 3.38m
203 LEDs x 0.06A = 12.2A required
Parts list
LED Lights: http://amzn.to/2Cz5N88
LED Adapter: http://amzn.to/2BeSo4W
Grabber: http://amzn.to/2kwVE3D
HDMI Splitter: http://amzn.to/2ACNMod
HDMI->AV Converter: http://amzn.to/2AzB35r
USB HUB: http://amzn.to/2BcXKxr
Velcro: http://amzn.to/2ojtVsk
Pi Case: http://amzn.to/2BtEn61
Connector: push pins -> Raspberry PI GPIO (Jumper cable female): http://amzn.to/1XMsU59
Terminal strip: http://amzn.to/2j58dCY
Connector: push pins -> led stripe (4 pin JST) : http://amzn.to/1Tu7kwU
12 AWG Wire: http://amzn.to/2CizCJa
