Hi
First of all I must state that I am totally new to Arduino. However I have very good experience with C#, C++ and some other programming languages.
If this is not the right place for my topic I apologise and would appreciate any help to where is the best place to post it or move it to.
No to the main subject, I am designing a solution where I can control around 20 meters of multicolour LED Strips in room via a PC/Windows or WEB application.
the application should give the RGB value All the strips and they will light with the same colour. so the whole 20 meters will light with the same colour
Can you please advice me to the best way to do so using any controller in your mind, I prefer if the controller has an API for .Net apps but I am open to any suggestions.
Do you think that I can control the 20 meters LED strips with only one controller or I might need more than one?
Is there specific LED strips that must be used or any type will work fine for the purpose?
Thanks a lot for any help you would provide.
George
Controlling 20 meter RGB LED strips via APP
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Re: Controlling 20 meter RGB LED strips via APP
The FadeCandy will probably be the easiest solution: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1689
Each board only controls 512 pixels, but you can connect multiple boards via USB. Our blinky-stuff guru used them to make an LED curtain with 48m of 30 pixel-per-meter strip:
https://learn.adafruit.com/1500-neopixe ... fadecandy/
Each board only controls 512 pixels, but you can connect multiple boards via USB. Our blinky-stuff guru used them to make an LED curtain with 48m of 30 pixel-per-meter strip:
https://learn.adafruit.com/1500-neopixe ... fadecandy/
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Re: Controlling 20 meter RGB LED strips via APP
Thanks for your help. I have an important question regarding to how to solve the pixel restrictions. If I want to give all the LED Strips the exact same colour, isn't there any way that I can link them together Strip-to-strip using a signal repeater or something so I can give the 20 meter Strips the same colour but using the least amount of controller at the same time?adafruit_support_mike wrote:The FadeCandy will probably be the easiest solution: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1689
Each board only controls 512 pixels, but you can connect multiple boards via USB. Our blinky-stuff guru used them to make an LED curtain with 48m of 30 pixel-per-meter strip:
https://learn.adafruit.com/1500-neopixe ... fadecandy/
Thanks again
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Re: Controlling 20 meter RGB LED strips via APP
You can use multiple FadeCandy boards in the same USB tree, but if you want strips to behave identically you can connect them in parallel. All you have to do is connect the first pixel of multiple strips to the same data line.
There's a limit to the number of strips you can connect to a single data pin, but you can use buffers like the 74HC245 to send a signal to as many strips as you want.
There's a limit to the number of strips you can connect to a single data pin, but you can use buffers like the 74HC245 to send a signal to as many strips as you want.
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