thinking of pixels...

[James Hill]

I haven't played on the computer with the program and although I have "Advanced" not "Pro", can I play with programming pixels and get the learning process started...then if I am feeling ok, splurge for "Pro" and already have things done? or do I have to upgrade to "Pro" first?

I'm OK with not being able to CONTROL the lights, I just want to see if I can do this first.

I can see you all laughing, thinking "He's going there anyway!"....

Thanks and Merry Christmas

[PhilMassey]

In Advanced, the Motion effects are available to look at and play with but you cannot save the results. At least, that is my understanding. You can of course sequence pixels the same way as everything else, its just a LOT more channels to deal with. I have been sequencing pixels that way for years.

[James Hill]

If I set up my pixels onto another USB adapter (red) do I start all over with unit 1 or do I continue on with the numbering from the other units?

I am planning on having my pixels separate from my dumb RGBs.

Anything else I should think of?

Thanks in advance.

[PhilMassey]

You will not reuse Id's. LOR pixel controllers usually use one ID per PORT on the board. So, a Pixie 4 will use four Id's. Note also that you tell it the starting port and it will assign the next 3, of course in hex order.

[k6ccc]

20 minutes ago, James Hill said:

If I set up my pixels onto another USB adapter (red) do I start all over with unit 1 or do I continue on with the numbering from the other units?

You can.  Regular network Unit 01 is NOT the same as AuxA network Unit ID 01.  However from a human confusion standpoint, you may not want to.  In my case, I blocked out Unit IDs 01 - 0F for my Regular network, Unit IDs 10 - 1F are on my AuxA network, and Unit IDs 20 - 2F are on my AuxB network.

 

[TheDucks]

53 minutes ago, James Hill said:

If I set up my pixels onto another USB adapter (red) do I start all over with unit 1 or do I continue on with the numbering from the other units?

I am planning on having my pixels separate from my dumb RGBs.

Anything else I should think of?

Thanks in advance.

If you like confusion, by all means, start ID #'s over 😛 You CAN have the same ID# on every network.

BUT Why , when there are so many numbers you COULD USE?

My networks are NOT laid out by TYPE of nodes (within Controller limitations). So a Pixie4, CMB24 (dumb) and a CTB16g3 all are on a 500K (red) network, because that is the Path  that made sense for my AuxB

AuxA went elsewhere (also red) and one, lone CTB16g2 is on Regular (black)

[James Hill]

That is what I was thinking...different network - could start over. I like k6ccc's idea of "blocked out Unit IDs 01 - 0F for my Regular network, Unit IDs 10 - 1F are on my AuxA network, and Unit IDs 20 - 2F are on my AuxB network". Not like I would ever need more....on our small house...not! Will ask more questions soon enough, I am sure....Thank you very much.

[k6ccc]

1 hour ago, James Hill said:

That is what I was thinking...different network - could start over. I like k6ccc's idea of "blocked out Unit IDs 01 - 0F for my Regular network, Unit IDs 10 - 1F are on my AuxA network, and Unit IDs 20 - 2F are on my AuxB network". Not like I would ever need more....on our small house...not! Will ask more questions soon enough, I am sure....Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

BTW, here is tip #2 on my three LOR networks.  I use purple cat-5 cable for all my LOR networking.  However I use color marking tape for each of the three networks.  The cables are marked at each end, and any time a cable goes through a junction box, it is marked in the box.  Makes it much easier to know which cable to pull if there are more than one.

Regular network (think LOR network #1):  Brown tape (resistor color code = 1

AuxA network (think LOR network #2):  Red tape (resistor color code = 2

AuxB network (think LOR network #3):  Orange tape (resistor color code = 3

I know someone out there was wondering why with my three ID blocks, I did not use 0 - 2 instead (and therefore Black, Brown, and Red).  There actually is a reason.  Before I got into LOR lighting, Purple Cat-5 was officially designated by me as "non-Ethernet" and was used for the serial connections for some environmental monitors.  That was marked with Black tape (zero in the Resistor color code).  When I added LOR networking, it started as 1 (or Brown).