Have multiple FPP Based controllers perfectly synced together with Multicast. Multicast is the preferred choice for connecting multiple holiday light show controllers like, Microcyb, Kulp, Wally's, and more.
Thank you for posting this. Your teaching approach is very instructive and easy to follow. I have been frustrated since my Halloween show in getting FPP connect to sync my show, and your explanation about the "xLights Only" selection under Active box was the missing link to my successful show. I appreciate you taking the time to do these videos. Very informative.
Thank you very much. I kept catching myself saying multicast, instead of multisync when recording. I even put the title of the video as Multicast and just noticed it. LOL Gotta get out of the unicast and multicast days. :)
Thanks for another informative tutorial. Would it be possible for you to make a step by step video on how to setup WLAN/Ethernet connections? The player will be connected to home router via WLAN, and then the player’s ETH and all the remotes ETH will be connected to a switch and will be using different subnet. Thanks.
Great video! My house set up is similar to yours. How would you recommend I set up the lights around the garage doors? I also have the lights wrapped around the garage edges like you do.
@@djizzy12 I use a PI as my show master that doesn't connect to any pixels. The PI multisyncs out to a few kulp controllers spread throughout my display.
This might require a larger discussion or it's own video, but my intent is to use a remote rpi (potentially several) strictly to output to a projector. Obviously, the media file being played needs to be copied to the pi connected to the projector with the correct virtual matrix assigned to it, but does it also have to exist on all other pis as well (master plus any other remotes) the same way the sequence file does? I'm looking to best optimize sd card usage.
The remotes only need to have the file that is playing on the remote. The caveat is that they need to be named the exact same as what is on the master.
I am not sure I understand your question completely. Multisync is more of a communication protocol than a file. Any file/sequence can be "multisynced" as long as the remotes have that file with the exact same name. FPP has a bunch of options on how to trigger the playing of a sequence/file.
I'm having a weird issue on a pi4, and it must be my router, but I can't figure it out. I get no ethernet lights on my pi, I do have a usb to ethernet adapter if I need to use that for my controller. Though the 6.2 update with the MAC address thing may fix it. I'll try that and report back
If their are no lights I would check the cable or the port on the router. No lights means no data. Just try to elimate or replace parts one by one. Lmk of 6.2 helps
@@mynameisneb I am happy to hop on a zoom call with ya later. I would try a different cable however. If it is happening to multiple PIs I would think it is upstream of the Pi.
