Working with long strands of LEDs
Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:05 am
Hello,
First of all, I must say that QLC+ is quite impressive! It seems to fit my needs very well - I plan to add a strand of LEDs to my living-room ceiling. Hence my questions:
1. 200 RGB LEDs obviously exceed the one universe limit. I see that adding fixtures from different universes is quite seamless, however, I am not sure how it works in a RGB Matrix. What is the order in which they are assigned in the matrix? Ideally I would like the first LED of the second universe follow the last LED of the first one, especially for sequences etc.
2. I see that the RGB matrix cannot be arranged so that it is a single long row of 200 LEDs. While I understand that it would be unmanageable in the preview, such options might still be useful to configure for setups such as mine, in particular for scripting.
3. With such a number of LEDs the manual setup becomes rather tedious. Of course, RGB Matrix scripting can take care of that, but maybe some sort of middle solution could be considered, i.e. a semi-procedural setting which could produce sine waves of color, pulses running along the line, etc. I might be wrong here, though, maybe the RGB scripting is sufficient for those.
4. This question is unrelated to long LEDs: I will want to automate QLC+ with EventGhost (or Python), has anyone tried this? I suppose the web interface could be somehow controlled with EG, but I have no idea how to get around to it.... I have considered other options (like a virtual HID controller), but they seem to be more limited.
First of all, I must say that QLC+ is quite impressive! It seems to fit my needs very well - I plan to add a strand of LEDs to my living-room ceiling. Hence my questions:
1. 200 RGB LEDs obviously exceed the one universe limit. I see that adding fixtures from different universes is quite seamless, however, I am not sure how it works in a RGB Matrix. What is the order in which they are assigned in the matrix? Ideally I would like the first LED of the second universe follow the last LED of the first one, especially for sequences etc.
2. I see that the RGB matrix cannot be arranged so that it is a single long row of 200 LEDs. While I understand that it would be unmanageable in the preview, such options might still be useful to configure for setups such as mine, in particular for scripting.
3. With such a number of LEDs the manual setup becomes rather tedious. Of course, RGB Matrix scripting can take care of that, but maybe some sort of middle solution could be considered, i.e. a semi-procedural setting which could produce sine waves of color, pulses running along the line, etc. I might be wrong here, though, maybe the RGB scripting is sufficient for those.
4. This question is unrelated to long LEDs: I will want to automate QLC+ with EventGhost (or Python), has anyone tried this? I suppose the web interface could be somehow controlled with EG, but I have no idea how to get around to it.... I have considered other options (like a virtual HID controller), but they seem to be more limited.
