Nick, you do a great job of explaining things. I have watched many other videos on setting up the Raspberry Pi and was about to give up ever making the thing work.
I'm new to this hobby and I've been trying to find a good way to do this for the past 2 weeks. I was able to get the falcon and raspberry pi connected alright, but I was never able to access my falcon through the pi I stumbled upon your video and was finally able to not only keep my raspberry pi connected to my falcon, but being able to access the falcon wirelessly as well. Thank you for ending 2 weeks of stress.
The static route you added is subnet (based on the subnet mask you entered) so that's why any address in the 192.168.2.x range works. If you entered a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255 it would only work for that one specific IP of 192.168.2.2.
@How2Pixel Yeah. It's called Netmask because it's masking the IP address but in order to better understand this concept you have to write the IP address and mask in binary form. When you do this, the bits in the mask that are set to 1 will define the number of bits in the IP address that belong to the Network and which belong to the Host.
Thanks for the video, it was super helpful in getting my setup working. Hopefully I can answer one of the questions you had in the video. When you were looking at the static routes in the router, the reason any ip address on the subnet was getting routed to the wired side of the RPI was the subnet mask. Using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 will treat all IPs in the last octet the same. You can lock down the subnet mask a bit more if you want using something like 255.255.255.255 and it should just create the route for the single IP
Have you worked with any of the quin controllers running WLED? I am thinking about using them to run a basic effect when my show is not playing. Then run the show I developed from xlights to play Friday Saturday and Sunday nights. Any info about doing this with quin controllers or WLED would be helpful.
great video explained a lot, but when i try and add the separate network for light show my modem/wifi router which is threw cox cable will only let me do 192.168.0.1-254, will not let me create 192.168.1.1-254 says invalid ip addresses, thanks for any info on this
You don't need to set up a static route on your router to get to the web interface of the controller, there is another option. xlights can do the forwarding for you. on the controllers tab in xlights click on the controller that you want to get to and set the field "FPP Proxy IP/Hostname" to the IP address of your raspberry pi. Now you can just click on the connect button at the bottom
Thank you for the tip! Now I'm assuming this will only work for that computer right? Usually when I'm outside and testing or recording my show, I need to access my devices from my phone. That's why I used to set a static route when I used this method.
@@How2Pixel it should work for any device. i use it to connect to my falcon controller from my phone. the url format is like this... 192.168.0.184/proxy/192.168.1.253/
Ohh ok, I'll have to look into that some more. I can't believe I didn't know that but hey, you're always learning 😂. Thank you for letting me know about this!!
I have Apple Express routers and this static route step looks like I’m unable to do. Do you have a video on the option listed above for static route alternatives? Or what is the Apple Express static route process?
Nick, we really appreciate all your tutorials in Memphis, TN. Question, I changed my FPP proxy IP/host name to my pi’s Wi-Fi IP address when I try to add a prop under visualize, I get a message that says “FPP proxy (my Pi’s IP address) is either not online or does not have this controller in its proxy table. This upload may fail until this is corrected.” Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?
Yes you can skip adding the ethernet address and stuff, but make sure to leave it BLANK on the Pi!! If you don't you'll run into trouble. You'll also have to connect the colorlight card first to your computer to configure it, and you'll need to configure the Pi as well in the channel outputs menu to control the panel. But after that you can hook them up and shouldn't need to do anything else.
Can you do a video how to use the raspberry pie for a show . What do you do after setting it up . Do u still use the xlights or you put the sequence on a SD card.
Once you set the pi up, you take the sequence files you created in Xlights and put them on the pi to run. I have a tutorial that's all about how to set up the pi with FPP on it if you'd like to check it out ruclips.net/video/pjJMpwaXGTQ/видео.html
Also I am u able to use fpp connect to send the sequence to my raspberry pi as it gives me errors so I manually upload the sequence to my fpp raspberry pi and that seems to work fine to play my sequence. I would like to understand why I am receiving errors so I can skip this step of manually dropping the files to my file manager in as every pi.
That's a good question, there are a couple of different ones I've heard of, but here are the ones I think would be the biggest downsides. First, instead of having a much smaller computer like you would when using a Raspberry Pi, you'd have a much larger laptop or PC, depending on which you choose to run the show. Second, you can't really do much with that computer while it's running the show, unless you have a really powerful one that could handle outputting all the data while you use it for something else. You also wouldn't be able to hear any audio on the computer while it's running, assuming that it's already being used to output the music to speakers or an FM transmitter. Finally, there's just a lot of extra "junk" on a computer that isn't necessary to run a show. Meanwhile, the Raspberry Pi can be set up to ONLY have the needed items to run as a show player. But those are the biggest downsides in my opinion, but if you have a computer you don't need or use, you can definitely use it to run the show instead!
I was able to execute these steps but I have a smart receiver connected to my falcon controller. I have configured everything in flights to allow for my smart receiver and when I put the falcon controller into player mode it sends the information correctly. When I use my rasberry pi fpp player and play the same sequence it isn’t sending the information to smart receiver to play the lights. I am not sure what I may be doing wrong? Any thoughts on this?
It sounds like the pi and controller aren't communicating properly. Do any of the other pixel outputs on the controller work when you send data to it from the pi? Or does the whole controller do nothing?
Hi Nick great Video, but i am having problems after i put in the info for the ETH0. FPP asking for a reboot and after i do this it cannot connect via the wifi, not sure if I am missing something?
What version of FPP are you using? I'm pretty sure this may be a bug that I've also been running into. It took me a while to realize that this never happened on 7.x versions of FPP. Version 8.2 may have fixed this because I saw some bug fixes related to this problem on the GitHub page. Try updating the version and see if that fixes it.
@@How2Pixel hi Nick that seems to have worked thank you. do you know of anybody that can help with the ATT BGW320-505 routher to set up the sub net.. having a really bad time with it, cannot find where to add the address
Are you talking about AT&T routers? That's very strange, I've never heard of anyone having this problem with specifically those routers. I don't have much experience with AT&T routers but from what I've heard and know about them, they should work just like any other routers.
Nick, you do a great job of explaining things. I have watched many other videos on setting up the Raspberry Pi and was about to give up ever making the thing work.
I'm so glad the video was helpful! Thank you for watching!
What a great video. Such clear explanation. Thanks so much. 👍🏼
I'm new to this hobby and I've been trying to find a good way to do this for the past 2 weeks. I was able to get the falcon and raspberry pi connected alright, but I was never able to access my falcon through the pi I stumbled upon your video and was finally able to not only keep my raspberry pi connected to my falcon, but being able to access the falcon wirelessly as well. Thank you for ending 2 weeks of stress.
Awesome! I'm so glad the video was able to help 😊
Great video. I was having problems getting this working and your tip on IP forwarding fixed my problem. Thanks
MAN I LOVE THIS SERIES
Haha thanks!
The static route you added is subnet (based on the subnet mask you entered) so that's why any address in the 192.168.2.x range works. If you entered a subnet mask of 255.255.255.255 it would only work for that one specific IP of 192.168.2.2.
Thank you for the information! I recently had someone else comment that too and it makes sense now, thanks!
@How2Pixel Yeah. It's called Netmask because it's masking the IP address but in order to better understand this concept you have to write the IP address and mask in binary form. When you do this, the bits in the mask that are set to 1 will define the number of bits in the IP address that belong to the Network and which belong to the Host.
Great video Nick, I have set this up on my PI and home router, now to test.
Awesome! Good luck with the test!
You are extremely clear explaining.. Thanks man.
Keep up the awesome videos Nick!!!
Definitely will do!!
Thanks for simplifying the process!
Another nice and helpful video! Thanks!
Thanks for the video, it was super helpful in getting my setup working. Hopefully I can answer one of the questions you had in the video. When you were looking at the static routes in the router, the reason any ip address on the subnet was getting routed to the wired side of the RPI was the subnet mask. Using a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 will treat all IPs in the last octet the same. You can lock down the subnet mask a bit more if you want using something like 255.255.255.255 and it should just create the route for the single IP
OOOOH that makes so much more sense!! Thank you so much for the clarification!!
Thanks Nick for this video. I was having some issues but now I see what I was doing wrong.
Glad the video was useful!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!!
Great video!!
That cleared up several things. Thank you!
No problem, glad the video was helpful!
Great video! You da man!
Have you worked with any of the quin controllers running WLED? I am thinking about using them to run a basic effect when my show is not playing. Then run the show I developed from xlights to play Friday Saturday and Sunday nights. Any info about doing this with quin controllers or WLED would be helpful.
great video explained a lot, but when i try and add the separate network for light show my modem/wifi router which is threw cox cable will only let me do 192.168.0.1-254, will not let me create 192.168.1.1-254 says invalid ip addresses, thanks for any info on this
Thanks very helpful.
superior job explain all this
No problem, glad it was useful!
You don't need to set up a static route on your router to get to the web interface of the controller, there is another option. xlights can do the forwarding for you. on the controllers tab in xlights click on the controller that you want to get to and set the field "FPP Proxy IP/Hostname" to the IP address of your raspberry pi. Now you can just click on the connect button at the bottom
Thank you for the tip! Now I'm assuming this will only work for that computer right? Usually when I'm outside and testing or recording my show, I need to access my devices from my phone. That's why I used to set a static route when I used this method.
@@How2Pixel it should work for any device. i use it to connect to my falcon controller from my phone. the url format is like this... 192.168.0.184/proxy/192.168.1.253/
Ohh ok, I'll have to look into that some more. I can't believe I didn't know that but hey, you're always learning 😂. Thank you for letting me know about this!!
I have Apple Express routers and this static route step looks like I’m unable to do. Do you have a video on the option listed above for static route alternatives? Or what is the Apple Express static route process?
Nick, we really appreciate all your tutorials in Memphis, TN. Question, I changed my FPP proxy IP/host name to my pi’s Wi-Fi IP address when I try to add a prop under visualize, I get a message that says “FPP proxy (my Pi’s IP address) is either not online or does not have this controller in its proxy table. This upload may fail until this is corrected.” Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong?
Is setting up a bridge for a Colorlight card just as easy. Can you skip the setup of the eth0 IP address?
Yes you can skip adding the ethernet address and stuff, but make sure to leave it BLANK on the Pi!! If you don't you'll run into trouble. You'll also have to connect the colorlight card first to your computer to configure it, and you'll need to configure the Pi as well in the channel outputs menu to control the panel. But after that you can hook them up and shouldn't need to do anything else.
You should try the app for your router. I have a Linksys router and find the app much easier to use.
Can you do a video how to use the raspberry pie for a show . What do you do after setting it up . Do u still use the xlights or you put the sequence on a SD card.
Once you set the pi up, you take the sequence files you created in Xlights and put them on the pi to run. I have a tutorial that's all about how to set up the pi with FPP on it if you'd like to check it out ruclips.net/video/pjJMpwaXGTQ/видео.html
Nice! Thank you.
Also I am u able to use fpp connect to send the sequence to my raspberry pi as it gives me errors so I manually upload the sequence to my fpp raspberry pi and that seems to work fine to play my sequence. I would like to understand why I am receiving errors so I can skip this step of manually dropping the files to my file manager in as every pi.
What are the errors saying when you try to upload the sequence?
What is the downside of using your pc to hook up to the falcon controller instead of the raspberry pi?
That's a good question, there are a couple of different ones I've heard of, but here are the ones I think would be the biggest downsides. First, instead of having a much smaller computer like you would when using a Raspberry Pi, you'd have a much larger laptop or PC, depending on which you choose to run the show. Second, you can't really do much with that computer while it's running the show, unless you have a really powerful one that could handle outputting all the data while you use it for something else. You also wouldn't be able to hear any audio on the computer while it's running, assuming that it's already being used to output the music to speakers or an FM transmitter. Finally, there's just a lot of extra "junk" on a computer that isn't necessary to run a show. Meanwhile, the Raspberry Pi can be set up to ONLY have the needed items to run as a show player. But those are the biggest downsides in my opinion, but if you have a computer you don't need or use, you can definitely use it to run the show instead!
I was able to execute these steps but I have a smart receiver connected to my falcon controller. I have configured everything in flights to allow for my smart receiver and when I put the falcon controller into player mode it sends the information correctly. When I use my rasberry pi fpp player and play the same sequence it isn’t sending the information to smart receiver to play the lights. I am not sure what I may be doing wrong? Any thoughts on this?
It sounds like the pi and controller aren't communicating properly. Do any of the other pixel outputs on the controller work when you send data to it from the pi? Or does the whole controller do nothing?
Hi Nick great Video, but i am having problems after i put in the info for the ETH0. FPP asking for a reboot and after i do this it cannot connect via the wifi, not sure if I am missing something?
What version of FPP are you using? I'm pretty sure this may be a bug that I've also been running into. It took me a while to realize that this never happened on 7.x versions of FPP. Version 8.2 may have fixed this because I saw some bug fixes related to this problem on the GitHub page. Try updating the version and see if that fixes it.
@@How2Pixel hi Nick that seems to have worked thank you. do you know of anybody that can help with the ATT BGW320-505 routher to set up the sub net.. having a really bad time with it, cannot find where to add the address
From the research I've done, ATT routers do not accept static routing. Anyone have a comment regarding this?
Are you talking about AT&T routers? That's very strange, I've never heard of anyone having this problem with specifically those routers. I don't have much experience with AT&T routers but from what I've heard and know about them, they should work just like any other routers.