ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sun Feb 22, 2015 9:11 am #10404 In a word yes, if the mirror could be controlled via jinx or gladiator over IP/WiFi it would make it vey easy to use the ESP8266 inside the frame with a power bank on the back of the mirror.
This would be a very practical/colourful test for your project.

If the first ESP8266 starts in DHCP Server mode, serves ip to successive ESP's, could the range of ip's be updated with the same code? Could this allow the same effect on multiple arrays with the simplicity of one control stream?

Just a thought, I have enough hardware to give it a try with any of the previous mentioned pixels if you think it would be workable.

- Sun Feb 22, 2015 4:28 pm #10447 Hi there, I have uploaded your bin files to one of my ESPs and it will reset each LED in sequence when first powered up so LPD6803 is being addressed, but no communication with Jinx.... I verified connection by pinging the ESP(192.168.4.1) from a connected laptop (192.168.4.101) the laptop can print a valid routing table with DNS listed as well as the route between the laptop and ESP.
Any suggestions or tweeks to the code I can upload and test......But I still cannot compile from your files so just put them into a pair of bin files and I will test and feedback.....Youtube videos etc of the test setup if you would like....

- Sun Feb 22, 2015 4:30 pm #10448 Hi there, I have uploaded your bin files to one of my ESPs and it will reset each LED in sequence when first powered up so LPD6803 is being addressed, but no communication with Jinx.... I verified connection by pinging the ESP(192.168.4.1) from a connected laptop (192.168.4.101) the laptop can print a valid routing table with DNS listed as well as the route between the laptop and ESP.
Any suggestions or tweeks to the code I can upload and test......But I still cannot compile from your files so just put them into a pair of bin files and I will test and feedback.....Youtube videos etc of the test setup if you would like....

- Sun Feb 22, 2015 6:52 pm #10463 I have been successful (I think) at getting these two codes merged together. The major problem is how fast the tpm2net frames are coming in ... while the lpd6803 code was still working on the previous frame ... so my solution is frame dropping ... I tried to wait until the previous frame was done but ... it died (how do we feed the wdt?) ... I have tested this with both glediator & pixelcontroller with good feedback from the esp8266's uart (open a terminal window to see what is feed back ...) so I am hopeful that it will at least work with 50 - 60 lights ... at 100 pixels I see alot of frame dropping ...

I used the files that GengusKahn put up on his github page instead of the code on popsodav's github ... even though I have forked popsodav's files ...

GengusKahn: I was not able to use the Makefile that was included in your archive ... and some changes to other various file have been made in order to get things to compile ... if you diff the contents of my archive to yours (I left the archive structures the same) you can see what I had to do to get it to compile ...

I have included the firmware files in the archive so you wont have to worry about compiling
https://github.com/sfranzyshen/esp8266- ... hen.tar.gz

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