Like 2x 2mm2 wire gauge should do it. I connected mine with only 2x 1.5mm2 speakerwire.
The more leds you want to fire over only 1 data lead it will become slow, the reason is that data and later clk (too reset ledcolor) have to follow up on same lead. At certain point you loose data so also colour and sync will be off between leds and screen. Invest in a good ledstrip I would say, 4lines is always better then 3, more fluid
hello,
1, no answer/no experience with RGBW strips, there's a option in Hyperion.NG to activate RGBW protocol.
2, there is no advantage but sometimes its nessecary to use a levelshifter. Why? because GPIO on a raspi only put out max 3.3volts on datalines when ledstrips wants to have 3.5volts to prefer. Some types of ledstrips don't fire without a "boost" most of them will run directly on SPI GPIO connected without anything fancy
that depends also of your PSU which have to be really clean and steady output of 5 volts.
3, a 5050 SMD led uses at full brightness 0.049 amps not 60. So your calculation is off. Ledstrip isn't loosing voltage because you can power it from both sides, with this setup the power is spreaded evenly. You are talking about 3mtr of 60L/mtr so calculation is 0,049 x 180 = 8,82 amps or 45 watts of power for ledstrip only
I recommend to use 1 PSU to power everything
4, its said already 4 line ledstrips runs better and more fluid then 3 line strips, but a levelshifter is only needed in some cases. If you need it you see that in flickering/off colours and not responding ledstrip. You can connect more channels than one on a levelshifter so data/clk is no problem to connect simultaneously
goodluck with your build man
What are the differences between WS2812B and APA102 LED strips?
difference is that APA102 is 4 lines, 2 datalines for superfast traffic and smooth, 2 for VCC and GND. > see my video of the APA
WS2812b is 3 lines so only one dataline, with alot of traffic from SPI/PWM to the lights it can be slow(er) in reacting
i think that APA102 has better colours but thats personal 
Still stuck. Any suggestions please?
volgens mij ben jij nederlands? ik zie "tv woonkamer" in je log staan 
no unfortunatelly i have no experience with arduino/adalight and everything in your debug log seems to be okay, hyperion detects your Aduino
Hoping Thursday will be the go day.
let us know if you have questions when you are building your setup.
goodluck!
We loaded Hyperion 7 on a RPi0W (7 because we could not get 9 or 8 to interface Hyperion setup page in the browser)
something there is already not quite right. That should work also, i read a story about not getting into WebUI before and this happend because Hyperion wasn't running in root but in PI
You need to run hyperion as root with this configuration (device 'ws281x) PWM Run as PWM not as SPI because read alot of problems of that
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/hyperiond@.service
Remove the User session-line and save with CTRL+O and exit CTRL+x.
Don't forget to reboot >>> i have this from admin > https://hyperion-project.org/t…y.10463/page-3#post-26614
then..... there is 2 diffrent GPIO to use for PWM > https://pinout.xyz/pinout/pwm
also you see that sometimes SPI is used on the same GPIO https://pinout.xyz/pinout/spi
for PWM0 you need GPIO12
other things; measure your voltage > 5volts should not exceeding that, its better too run at 4.9 volts then too high.
second; a 244 configuration of leds will draw 0.049 x 244 = 12 Amps (in full brightness) so you have only 3 amps too spare on your PSU >>>> maybe your voltage is dropping too much for the leds??
goodluck!
thank you! But I notice on mine, that some blacks flicker green, any ideas?
Boost your backlight (rgb) threshold and play with black bar detection settings.
I upload those tomorrow.
Also smoothing helps, setting 35hz or khz, with 120ms
Suggestions?
is your leddevice running ? in WebUI at section remote you can turn it on and off.
also provide your logs out of Debug section logs.
it looks like the ledstrip sint connected to correct GPIO or settings in WebUI aren't correct for ledstrip.
it can also be a problem with userrights on output in Hyperion.
Dispmanx is screengrabber direct from your desktop of your PI, or trough PROTO port 19445
No you can't turn this off, the test image signal doesn't come from your grabber but from the HDMI to RCA converter.
The only thing you can do is alter this in WebUI at signal detection section, so the grabber doesn't pickup any "empty" videosignals to Hyperion.
(activate signal detection option) then settings is Hmin Vmin Hmax Vmax to look at. Search on this forum for correct settings.
Yes its 12v (power from original supply) Ground to supply and rpi, data only to GPIO 12 ...
i get it but i think you have to steer this on Hyperion.NG with adalight on Arduino.
I think its much easier for you to purchase a supported ledstrip in libraries of Hyperion.NG ( you can see this in WebUI) then try to awake this strip with weird technology that is not really supported by the software ( anymore)
I am not saying its a bad strip or such, but sometimes when software and hardware don't want to interact together then its the better choice to bring one to another
Its a 4 pin strip (but 2 of the pins are ground) Google says: (IClite) on basis of TMS1829.
i see its an ALDI ledstrip, so you purchased it there and then connected it to this software
this is a 12v ledstrip https://blog.thesen.eu/aldi-rg…-mit-dem-arduino-steuern/
Its a 4 pin strip (but 2 of the pins are ground) Google says: (IClite) on basis of TMS1829.
you connected the ledstrip on what GPIO? what are you running SPI or PWM?
whats the hardware setup? like ledstriptype and such
Is er een mogelijkheid om van deze 2 video bronnen ook signaal af te tappen en naar Hyperion te sturen? En dan het liefst zonder stekker te verwisselen, dus dat Hyperion zelf overgeschakeld naar een andere bron.
je kan bv een hDMI schakelaar gebruiken ( met remote) en achter die output een RCA converter zetten. De output daar weer van (CVBS - composiet) laat je alle geconverteerde composiet signalen op samen komen en die stuur je naar je USB grabber. Dat zou je ook bv weer kunnen doen met een 4 kanaals relais waarbij je alleen de lead schakelt.
nee, Hyperion.NG kan niet automatisch schakelen op bv verschillende USB input, wel kan je verschillende LEd instanties maken (2) waarbij je een andere grabber configureert bv. Je kan wel op PROTO images streamen naar je Hyperion.NG maar die moet via een screengrabber verstuurt worden over LAN naar bv poort 19445 van je Hyperion.NG Screengrabber software installeer je dan bv op je pc
yeah i know its automatically generated by the webui (the rate parameter is not editable in the ui so i put it in via import to see if this was the missing piece.... it wasnt)
So what I effectively did is: installed NG, put all my settings in (which worked in hypercon) via webui and it doesnt work.
The rate parameter was present in hyper con as "frequency".
okay thanks, now i get it
sometimes in writing/explaining technics is really hard. If you said this the first time then i understand hahaha
but anyway, because it worked on same hardware probably the problem is software of Hyperion.NG
did you install dependencies? like
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential qtbase5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5svg5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev python3-dev libcec-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-shm0-dev libxcb-render0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libavahi-core-dev libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev libjpeg-dev libturbojpeg0-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi-dev
and for the new type you need this one
sudo apt-get -d install libcec4
sudo apt-get install libcec4
? i dont know what you did and how, but you can alter the Hyperion.NG settings in WebUI at localIP:8090
whit this the Json is being rewritten automatically, normally you only have to save this Json config for backup your setup.
Am I doing something wrong/ something missing? Or is it just because NG is still in alpha?
you can't use your Json from Hypercon to import in Hyperion.NG.
they are completely diffrent!
import a clean Json into Hyperion.NG again because you have a Json file that is corrupted now in the new program, it will mallfunction or not run at all.
Drawing leds is: (full brightness)
0.049 x 408= 19.992 so 20 amps or 100 watts, only for leds.
So you have no problem use your mean well for the whole setup.
I also would recommend to use a LEDstrip with 2 datalines instead of one with this much lights. Now all the data has to go over only 1 dataline (pwm gpio12) so don't have experience with that but with 2 datalines type LEDstrips like the apa102 everything will run much smoother if you have to steer more then 200 leds.
Goodluck!
Have you tried to increase the arm in config.txt?
You can manually change the boost and arm of cpu.
Looks like your PI is a little short of some cpu power.
