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#1

Falcon Player Plugins / HA MQTT plugin for single mode...

Last post by s1godfrey - March 20, 2025, 08:21:46 PM

I'm very new to FPP. I installed the Home Assistant plugin and was able to discover in MQTT a model I selected. 

This model is on its on controller and separate from my house lights controller. However, when I assign an effect to it, the WLED effects running on my house lights controller go into DDP streaming mode. 

The model is for my 'staircase' lights which is on a ESP32 running wled. My house lights are on a Dig-Octa controller which has WLED built-in and it runs ambient lights at night.

When I activate an effect in HA or in FPP using Pixel Overlay Model, just for that one selected model, it stops my house lights controller's wled effects and makes it receive DDP data which is not even part of the 'staircase' model and controller im directing the effect to be sent.

Does FPP Overlay models intentionally globally send out DDP to all connected IP address of controller regardless of intent?

Any help to understand, please..

#2

Falcon Player (FPP) / Re: Virtual Display not workin...

Last post by dkulp - March 19, 2025, 11:45:01 AM

What "Device" do you have it set for?  Make sure you use HDMI-A-1 and not fb0.   

#3

Falcon Player (FPP) / Re: Virtual Display not workin...

Last post by avarrassi - March 19, 2025, 09:49:36 AM

Has this issue been resolved? I have 2 Virtual Displays on two separate RPi4's running FPP 7.5 and everything works fine with videos playing full screen on each Virtual Display. If I upgrade either RPi4 FPP7.5 to any version of FPP8 (I tried them all from 8.0 to 8.5.1 using the ffpos files) then instead of the videos displaying full screen as they do with FPP7.5, instead I get two small copies of the same video displaying in the upper left corner of the screen with a wavy line going through each video. If I go back to 7.5 everything works great.

I also noticed that in the FPP Channel Outputs screen, in FPP7.5 the fields displayed for Other Outputs (where the Virtual Display is configured) show a field labeled "Pixel Size" which is set to a value of 1, but in any version of FPP8.x that field is missing from the page yet in the FPP8.x manual it does show that field on the screen on pg. 182. Could that be a possible related factor with the problem I am experiencing?

#4

Falcon Player Plugins / Re: PixelOverlay-Clock - Revis...

Last post by jnealand - March 18, 2025, 06:00:53 PM

FPP > content setup > script repository

#5

Falcon Player Plugins / Re: PixelOverlay-Clock - Revis...

Last post by datajack - March 18, 2025, 04:48:12 AM

I have created an event using code found here to stop the clock.

I'm curious to know where that script is. I'm trying to solve this atm.

Thanks!

#6

Falcon Player (FPP) / PixelOverlay-Clock.php works b...

Last post by datajack - March 18, 2025, 04:38:32 AM

I've been looking into overlays in general (display message via rest api) and PixelOverlay-Clock.php specifically. I can get writing to overlay to work just fine (on top of other content), and after a little bit of tinkering, I could get the script to display time in the correct time zone and HH format. A couple of questions:

1. Is there way to have a bit more control over the placement of text? The current options are center and scrolling in four directions. I'd like to place the clock in upper or lower right corner. Any way to set X/Y or some such?
Note: I've jsut created overlays with the same amount of pixels as the LED panel i'm using, so maybe the answer lies in the configuration of the overlay?

2. Once I start the clock script, how to I stop it again? The code comment says CTRL-C, but that doesn't seem very flexible 😉

#7

Falcon Player (FPP) / Re: Backup Feature not functio...

Last post by efamlights - March 16, 2025, 11:58:28 AM

It's possible my issue was being caused by something else. My FPP instance on the Pi is stuck in an endless Initial Setup loop. Good thing I was already set mentally on starting from scratch on the new instance. Maybe the memory card got corrupt?

#8

Falcon Player (FPP) / Re: Backup Feature not functio...

Last post by efamlights - March 16, 2025, 11:24:11 AM

Thanks everyone, I am just going to rebuild from scratch. Was just trying to make it easy while converting to run in a Proxmox instance and ditching the Pi.

I was too late looking at this, Sorry! you've probably rebuilt already but if you change the "Copy backups to alternative location" setting to None you would have been able to generate a backup. I found a small bug last night that was introduced in 8.5-8.5.1 that broke backups if you used this option.

I rebuilt on a VM to try and ditch all the random Pi's I have, I can still attempt what you suggest to transfer to the VM, it is still sitting as a stock install and the Pi is turned off. Will let you know if this works, thank you.

#9

General Hardware / Re: WS2811, Raspberry Pi 5, GP...

Last post by Ulysse-srfc24 - March 16, 2025, 05:07:48 AM

are your ws2811s powered by 5V or 12V?

You can use either, but you have to power the pixels separately, tie the V- together with the Data V-. The Data line is 5V so you will need to adjust that line accordingly/

Hello, well it still doesn't work, I just bought a level shifter just in case, to be sure to have 5v for the data but still nothing, Thank you very much for your help, Is it possible that my problem comes from Xlight? I am a beginner on Xlight, Good day!

#10

BeagleBone Black Controllers / K16A-B Issue

Last post by nolatron - March 15, 2025, 01:52:26 PM

Getting my new K16A-B controller setup today with a BeagleBone Black. SDcard was imaged with FPP8.5-BBB.

I'm having two issues with it though.

1) None of the menu buttons or test button on the controller work.  There's no response to any button presses.

2) The FPP website is displaying the following error:

Abnormal Conditions - May cause poor performance or other issues
Could not find pin pca9675b-0 to enable output Port 1
Could not find pin pca9675b-1 to enable output Port 2
Could not find pin pca9675b-2 to enable output Port 3

The above errors go all the way to port 16. I had to trim it down otherwise the forum kept flagging my message as spam and not posting.

I' have my Xlights config uploaded along with a sequence and I am able to play it. I can also enable test mode from the website.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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[HA MQTT plugin for single model]

HA MQTT plugin for single model by s1godfrey March 20, 2025, 08:21:46 PM

Virtual Display not working? by dkulp March 19, 2025, 11:45:01 AM

PixelOverlay-Clock - Revisited Again by jnealand March 18, 2025, 06:00:53 PM

PixelOverlay-Clock.php works but I have questions... by datajack March 18, 2025, 04:38:32 AM

Backup Feature not functional by efamlights March 16, 2025, 11:58:28 AM

WS2811, Raspberry Pi 5, GPIO, could not initialize. by Ulysse-srfc24 March 16, 2025, 05:07:48 AM

K16A-B Issue by nolatron March 15, 2025, 01:52:26 PM

F16V5 and SRx1 v5 by jkp March 15, 2025, 07:19:44 AM

Differential Board: PSU & Enclosure by hakko808 March 14, 2025, 09:17:01 AM

FPP 8.4 Back up by Jradical March 13, 2025, 05:38:18 AM