![]() ![]() So I think I should be fine for expansion for a while. This holiday light show (not mine) for example, uses about 4500 addressable LEDs. I have purchased two 50 LED strands of type WS2811 to start with (50 LEDs over a 225 inch long strand, 18.75 feet, 5.7 meters). How expandable is it? Well, the Kulp Lights K8-B LED controller cape for the BeagleBone Black can drive 800 LEDs on each of its 8 channels at 40fps, for a total of 6400 LEDs. Now setup a test program in xLights to blink and change colors on the light string to music.Īt this point I have an expandable holiday light show that I can add on lights and props to bit by bit each year and each holiday. Attach the stripped ends into one of the terminal blocks on the Kulp Lights cape and also inject 5V into the LED light string via its two power terminals. These are 5V WS2811 style addressable LED strands. ![]() Next, strip one set of strands at one end of this string of addressable LEDs. It’s an addressable LED strand light controller from Kulp Lights, specifically the K8-B. Then put this awesome cape on your BeagleBone Black. If you do go the route of booting from the eMMC and using the microSD card for storage, be sure to select it as storage in the Status/Control > FPP Settings > Storage > Storage Device drop down menu. Or you can follow the developers’ advice and just boot from the microSD card and partition the extra room on the microSD card for your light show storage. Then go to Storage and click Flash to eMMC. You can access the “Flash to eMMC” button by going to Status/Control > FPP Settings > UI and setting the User Interface Level to Advanced. The Falcon Player developers no longer recommend copying the SDcard contents to the eMMC on the BBB, but I went ahead and did it anyway, then reformatted the SDcard, and used it as storage for Falcon Player. Next, following instructions from (via ) setup the basic settings in Falcon Player on the BeagleBone Black. $ sudo dd if=~/Desktop/ bs=1m | pv -s 4G | sudo dd of=/dev/rdiskY bs=1m Something like this (please don’t copy and paste, use your actual file locations and disk names – replace rdiskY with your actual drive name.) You might want to pipe the dd command through pv to have a status bar for your disk copying. įollow the command line instructions here: and for a disk image use the latest release of Falcon Player for BeagleBone Black found here. ![]() You can use the SD Card Formatter application from. I chose a 32GB microSD card because the price was fine ($9.30 including tax), but you probably need at least 8GB. Here’s my method.įirst step, get Falcon Player onto a BeagleBone Black via a freshly formatted microSD card. I’m calling this operation blinky or gtfo. So I went down a rabbit hole of holiday light shows. You know that one house in your town with the radio station you can tune to and thousands of LEDs light up and blink to the music? I want to be that house. So I have been pretty sure I wanted a holiday light show at my home for many years now. ![]()
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