Holiday Coro Pixels with Pixie 4

[coronabob]

I have been setting up a test of Pixie 4 controller. I was starting out with some HC Candy Canes. Then I decided to try some pixels and some ribbon from HC to work on some arches.  Well the ribbons from HC works beautifully. The pixel nodes only work the first 8 and shimmer instead of full on. The 65 rectangular pixel modules for the candy canes work odd. Sometime blink a little and most time not at all. Since they are in groups of 20, I tried 3 sections of 20 no luck. Tried the remaining section of 4 and they work perfectly. Contacted HC and they say their pixels don't work with Light O Rama, maybe a firmware difference.

Has anyone heard of this.

OOPS, 64 modules.

[TheDucks]

Sad to hear HC is now shoveling manure.

Most of my Smart nodes (not Ribbon) are from HC. All of my dumb ones are.

I use mostly Pixie4 (12V). This season, that was 500 bullets, all from HC. All connected to Pixies

[dibblejr]

2 hours ago, coronabob said:

I have been setting up a test of Pixie 4 controller. I was starting out with some HC Candy Canes. Then I decided to try some pixels and some ribbon from HC to work on some arches.  Well the ribbons from HC works beautifully. The pixel nodes only work the first 8 and shimmer instead of full on. The 65 rectangular pixel modules for the candy canes work odd. Sometime blink a little and most time not at all. Since they are in groups of 20, I tried 3 sections of 20 no luck. Tried the remaining section of 4 and they work perfectly. Contacted HC and they say their pixels don't work with Light O Rama, maybe a firmware difference.

Has anyone heard of this.

OOPS, 64 modules.

Yes, David told a friend of mine this last Fall. 

Do me a favor. Check your pixie controller for a jumper on JP5 and if one is there remove the jumper. That jumper is not required. Then test.

Also ensure the pixie in the "Cosmic Color Ribbon/ Pixie Configuration" the Logical Resolution is set to 50. Even if you have 170 pixels that should remain at 50.

It could be a different chip that the mfg he uses used. Who know but thats just speculation.

JR

Edited January 12, 2022 by dibblejr