============PLEASE READ!============== I wanted to add a few important things I forgot to mention in this video. First, I show multiple different pictures of receivers in the video, and the colors of the receivers are different in some of the pictures. They are still the same receiver, but depending on where you buy them they may come in black or blue. So don't worry if your receiver is a different color, it still works the same. Second is on the V5 smart receivers, you can also reset the fuses if they're blown by pressing the test button instead of powering off the board or using the web interface on a V5 controller. Finally, just incase I didn't make it clear enough, when setting the mode/ID dial on an SRx2 or SRx4 receiver, the dial should be set to the FIRST ID the receiver would use. I know I talked about SRx2 receivers counting as 2 receivers, and SRx4 ones counting as 4, so you may have been confused on which ID to set it to since they use 2 IDs on the SRx2s and 4 IDs on the SRx4s. You would set the dial to the FIRST ID the receiver uses.
Thanks so much for your detailed and entertaining videos!! I am still a little lost on a few items.... 1) I don't know where the terminator switch is on my 4 SRX1v5's. 2) I notice that the 4 RJ45 ports on the F16v5 list channels 17-20, 21-24, 25-28 and 29-32. I want to "chain" 2 of the smart receivers (using channels17-24 but only using the physical port 17-20) on the F16v5 and then, a second chain of 2 smart receivers (25-32) only using the physical port 21-24on the F16v5?? How do I set the rotating switch? In other words, would the first two receivers in "chain 1"(coming from Port "17-20) be set to A and B and then "chain 2"of two SRX1's (coming from port 21-24) as A and B just like chain 1?
Dude! Thank you SOOOO much for taking the time to explain this! I cannot put into words how appreciative I am! I hate the way Falcon only has half-baked and unintuitive resources to explain their products.
Being pedantic, but the cables are not Ethernet cables. They are CAT5/CAT6 terminated with the T568B standard (or T568A if you want to be a rebel). 😂 Great video! Thanks for all the details, this helps a lot with getting started.
This is actually the best description of the different controllers/receivers I’ve seen. Other RUclips channels talk about them but this is a really good side by side comparison.
Very in depth explanation! Wow! Nice work. You inspire me to get more into this besides just my WLED installation by equipping me with knowledge to make it happen. Thanks for posting all the videos you do! Keep up the great work! Off to part 2 now..
I used Wi-Fi to connect to all my equipment. So much easier than running cables to my computer. Have an Eero box inside my front door and one by my computer at the other end of my home and everything worked great. I have Frontier 2 gig 2,000/Mbps internet service. Small antenna on each board sends out the signal. Like your videos.
Oh nice! I'm glad that setup works for you. I've tried using wifi before but I don't have antennas for the boards and it's never been reliable for me. However, everyone has different situations and different setups work better for others!
Hello Nicholas , how can we ask to the SRx1 V5 differential receiver to count and give us the pixels quantity for a particular port? I though we should declare the quantity manualy in the controller via the Xlights software. Thanks for the very good tuto by the way; I very appreciated your sketches. It help me to understand by a lot. I think now that I will be able to fix my communication issue between my F16V5 controller and my SRx1 v5 long range receiver by selectinng A as letter on the small dial wheel. 🎄🎄🎄
Watching your vides which are very helpful and you have put a lot of time in learning these products. have a question Is there a flow chart/drawing that lays out how to setup the system. Example... PC is networked with xlights running, then connect a F16v5 Pixel Controller to network then a PI with a RPI-28D+ header on it running FPP then smart receivers the lights etc... it does get a little confusing also lets not forget the power-supplies... again thanks for your videos
I'm glad the videos have been helpful! I sadly don't really have any flow charts like that because every situation is unique, so there would need to be 1,000s for every setup. My recommendation is if you can, take some time to learn about how each device you have works and how they connect with others, and overtime you could make a flow chart just for your situation to help you remember how everything hooks up. Hopefully this is helpful!
Chaining V5 and V4 receivers ... the V5 receivers should be closest to the controller. If you put them after a V4 receiver then there is a chance the v4 receiver will interfere with the return signal as it was never designed for this. As the V4 receiver ports are essentially pas through it may work but i would not rely on it.
Great videos bud...quick question, I have f16v3, and I need to connect 2 of the SR 1 v4 (black) smart receivers, what "Variant" type do I select in xlights?
Are you planning on using a differential expansion to connect them? Or were you going to connect them to the one built in receiver output on the top right corner? If you're using an expansion board, then you'd select "One Expansion Board". If you're using the built in receiver output, then you'd select "No Expansion + Serial Port Remotes".
😂😂😂 hahaha yes things are, well no other easier way to say it then a lot more complicated! I never had a v2 controller but I know there's a lot less features to them so in a way it was simpler!
I wish you would stop referring to the differential receiver jacks as just RJ45 jacks! The Ethernet ports on the controllers are also RJ45 jacks. It might be better to just refer to the "Red" jacks as differential ports and the "Black" jacks as Ethernet ports. It's OK to say that both the differential ports and Ethernet ports can use Ethernet cables, but even better it would be best to refer to the cables as CAT5 or even CAT6 cables.
You know, I thought I heard that somewhere before but couldn't remember and for some reason I thought they had to be in order. Thanks for telling me though! I'll make sure to let everyone know about that in part 2 of the video.
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============PLEASE READ!==============
I wanted to add a few important things I forgot to mention in this video. First, I show multiple different pictures of receivers in the video, and the colors of the receivers are different in some of the pictures. They are still the same receiver, but depending on where you buy them they may come in black or blue. So don't worry if your receiver is a different color, it still works the same. Second is on the V5 smart receivers, you can also reset the fuses if they're blown by pressing the test button instead of powering off the board or using the web interface on a V5 controller.
Finally, just incase I didn't make it clear enough, when setting the mode/ID dial on an SRx2 or SRx4 receiver, the dial should be set to the FIRST ID the receiver would use. I know I talked about SRx2 receivers counting as 2 receivers, and SRx4 ones counting as 4, so you may have been confused on which ID to set it to since they use 2 IDs on the SRx2s and 4 IDs on the SRx4s. You would set the dial to the FIRST ID the receiver uses.
Thanks so much for your detailed and entertaining videos!! I am still a little lost on a few items....
1) I don't know where the terminator switch is on my 4 SRX1v5's.
2) I notice that the 4 RJ45 ports on the F16v5 list channels 17-20, 21-24, 25-28 and 29-32. I want to "chain" 2 of the smart receivers (using channels17-24 but only using the physical port 17-20) on the F16v5 and then, a second chain of 2 smart receivers (25-32) only using the physical port 21-24on the F16v5??
How do I set the rotating switch? In other words, would the first two receivers in "chain 1"(coming from Port "17-20) be set to A and B and then "chain 2"of two SRX1's (coming from port 21-24) as A and B just like chain 1?
Dude! Thank you SOOOO much for taking the time to explain this! I cannot put into words how appreciative I am! I hate the way Falcon only has half-baked and unintuitive resources to explain their products.
Being pedantic, but the cables are not Ethernet cables. They are CAT5/CAT6 terminated with the T568B standard (or T568A if you want to be a rebel). 😂
Great video! Thanks for all the details, this helps a lot with getting started.
This is actually the best description of the different controllers/receivers I’ve seen. Other RUclips channels talk about them but this is a really good side by side comparison.
This guy is awesome! So entertaining, seriously! Well done! and Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Very in depth explanation! Wow! Nice work. You inspire me to get more into this besides just my WLED installation by equipping me with knowledge to make it happen. Thanks for posting all the videos you do! Keep up the great work! Off to part 2 now..
I used Wi-Fi to connect to all my equipment. So much easier than running cables to my computer. Have an Eero box inside my front door and one by my computer at the other end of my home and everything worked great. I have Frontier 2 gig 2,000/Mbps internet service. Small antenna on each board sends out the signal. Like your videos.
Oh nice! I'm glad that setup works for you. I've tried using wifi before but I don't have antennas for the boards and it's never been reliable for me. However, everyone has different situations and different setups work better for others!
Good information and humorous. 👍
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with these videos. You really put a lot of work into explaining this hobby. Great job!
Thank you! Glad the video was helpful!
Hello Nicholas , how can we ask to the SRx1 V5 differential receiver to count and give us the pixels quantity for a particular port? I though we should declare the quantity manualy in the controller via the Xlights software.
Thanks for the very good tuto by the way; I very appreciated your sketches. It help me to understand by a lot.
I think now that I will be able to fix my communication issue between my F16V5 controller and my SRx1 v5 long range receiver by selectinng A as letter on the small dial wheel. 🎄🎄🎄
Very well explained, thank you.
Thank you!! Super job on this.. great info to have!!
Thank you Nicholas, this is great information 👌
Watching your vides which are very helpful and you have put a lot of time in learning these products. have a question
Is there a flow chart/drawing that lays out how to setup the system. Example... PC is networked with xlights running, then connect a F16v5 Pixel Controller to network then a PI with a RPI-28D+ header on it running FPP then smart receivers the lights etc... it does get a little confusing also lets not forget the power-supplies...
again thanks for your videos
I'm glad the videos have been helpful! I sadly don't really have any flow charts like that because every situation is unique, so there would need to be 1,000s for every setup. My recommendation is if you can, take some time to learn about how each device you have works and how they connect with others, and overtime you could make a flow chart just for your situation to help you remember how everything hooks up. Hopefully this is helpful!
Thanks for making this video!!!
No problem!
Chaining V5 and V4 receivers ... the V5 receivers should be closest to the controller. If you put them after a V4 receiver then there is a chance the v4 receiver will interfere with the return signal as it was never designed for this. As the V4 receiver ports are essentially pas through it may work but i would not rely on it.
Ok, thanks for letting me know! I tested it myself and found it worked for me at least, but I'll make sure to talk about that in the part 2 video.
Great videos bud...quick question, I have f16v3, and I need to connect 2 of the SR 1 v4 (black) smart receivers, what "Variant" type do I select in xlights?
Are you planning on using a differential expansion to connect them? Or were you going to connect them to the one built in receiver output on the top right corner? If you're using an expansion board, then you'd select "One Expansion Board". If you're using the built in receiver output, then you'd select "No Expansion + Serial Port Remotes".
When's part 2 coming out
The ports that connect the cables from your controller to the differential receivers are not Ethernet even though the connectors are RJ45.
Thanks for letting me know! I was aware of that and thought I referred to them as RJ45 jacks, but did I accidentally call them ethernet ports?
I got a F16-v2r and was actually feeling good about it until I saw this video 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂 hahaha yes things are, well no other easier way to say it then a lot more complicated! I never had a v2 controller but I know there's a lot less features to them so in a way it was simpler!
I wish you would stop referring to the differential receiver jacks as just RJ45 jacks! The Ethernet ports on the controllers are also RJ45 jacks. It might be better to just refer to the "Red" jacks as differential ports and the "Black" jacks as Ethernet ports. It's OK to say that both the differential ports and Ethernet ports can use Ethernet cables, but even better it would be best to refer to the cables as CAT5 or even CAT6 cables.
Receivers do not need to be connected in order ... regardless of the protocol.
You know, I thought I heard that somewhere before but couldn't remember and for some reason I thought they had to be in order. Thanks for telling me though! I'll make sure to let everyone know about that in part 2 of the video.
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How we can connect with you by text, like direct on Insta?
Please let me know!
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