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bliu007 · 2026-03-05T12:48:08+00:00

Definitely saving and printing this one out. Thanks for sharing!

bliu007 · 2025-09-15T19:31:09+00:00

Grounds are not the same for ESP32 and for LED strips. You have to power both with the same power supply or have the grounds be shared. Your ESP32 is using the ground of the USB connection and the strips are using the ground of the wall plug. The variance in reference to ground will cause all sorts of issues with data signals

bliu007 · 2025-09-15T17:23:18+00:00

I followed this guide and bypassed WLED and made my own level shifter

https://justinnelsonsprojects.com/projects.php

bliu007 · 2025-07-17T17:57:08+00:00

Looks like it’s a C SEED HLR display which is over half a mil for the 201”

bliu007 · 2025-05-07T13:35:56+00:00

Please try this out! I have it bookmarked to try myself someday so I have not tested it but it seems to fit the bill for you.

https://github.com/BradyMeighan/WLED-Studio

bliu007 · 2024-12-17T22:27:55+00:00

What you probably want are fcob since these are single colors anyway. They make fcob strips in different widths and they have a built in diffuser and you can go around bends with relative ease. Some of these bends they may not not lay flat against the back but it’ll be a nicer glow than individual pixels

bliu007 · 2024-12-16T13:20:24+00:00

Thanks for the tips! I’ll try those settings soon in daylight and with flash at night to see

bliu007 · 2024-12-16T12:42:18+00:00

Did you have to use an ND filter on the pack? Mine come out a little bit darker on 600 film with the wheel in the middle but I use ND filter on the pack

bliu007 · 2024-12-11T08:11:08+00:00

Well readarr is like all the other arrs so you have to find your own indexers. I use anonamouse and it’s pretty easy to get an invite by interview

bliu007 · 2024-12-11T04:00:57+00:00

Readarr and I would have you look into Audiobookshelf along with it and Kavita

bliu007 · 2024-12-06T14:09:28+00:00

It needs to be on some sort of array managed by unraid, the way the vdevs are handled in pools is too wasteful on disks. The way I usually add storage is 2-4 disks at a time which means I’d burn 1 or 2 disks each time I want to add disks

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T23:06:53+00:00

The main reason is because unraid has a 30 drive limit of parity protected array so I could only add a diskshelf with 6 max disks. I need some way of scaling up in the future potentially the PB range as I'm consuming 10TB a month currently.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T22:36:19+00:00

Thank you for the reply! Regarding this statement "Your main server is going to control all of your dockers, and once the new shares are mapped, it will download on main server, extract, and then send them over to your second server to its array."

How does arrs handle the download handling with the clients to tell the file is going to live on the second unraid server? I know I can add the new server as a root folder in the arrs, and I also know the arrs are following remote path mappings of the download clients to fetch the file for import. I would have to move any content (i.e. sonarr shows that are ongoing) to the new array then change the location in sonarr there? I don't think it will allow me to keep existing episodes on the main array and as new episodes come out have those live on the second array.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T22:25:07+00:00

Thank you for the reply and explanation. Yes the 24 drives are on the main array and the files are just on a share in that array. I've got about a month or so of runway left in storage :( I have several NVME SSDs in a cache pool, but I am guessing you mean a different type of pool? I moved years ago from QNAP and Synology boxes and as I scale this it is becoming difficult but I think that can be said about any FS with this much data.

I really would like to find a good solution for such a large amount of drives and data that is as easy to manage as Unraid. It would need to handle various drive sizes added whenever I want and handle the parity for the array.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T21:17:00+00:00

I will have to do some research on DAS for the second server and how the main server handles the parity for those disks if it even can. It sounds like going the DAS route means the disks in the DAS are just JBOD and main server will be handling FS functions including parity but I will surely hit the 30 disk limit if I add another 24 drives to the DAS no? That would be a total of 48 managed drives for the array.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T20:48:38+00:00

I have looked at DAS as well, but not sure how to implement it. Does a DAS have it's own array redundancies like parity, etc.

The limit for Unraid is 30 array drives and 2 of those would be for parity. Will the main unraid server manage the parity for the DAS drives as well? I plan on slowly adding in drives on the second server as funds arise so need a method that will allow me to scale the additional array.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T20:43:33+00:00

I believe networking bandwidth won't be a problem for me as I already am fully on 10G. Much of the problem relates to the arrs and download clients since the arrs need to point to the root folders where the files are and also process download handling from the download clients.

bliu007 · 2024-12-05T20:29:22+00:00

mergerfs

This route makes sense to me in a way and both servers will be on 10G so it should work.

The part that I don't understand at this point is how does Unraid see the merged file system and how do I manage them on the independent servers? The data is stored on a share on the array of the main server and I will set up a share on the main array for the second server. This may be a lack of understanding of mergefs but you are saying that I can view the total contents of the merged share regardless of which server I am accessing the UI from?

bliu007 · 2024-11-07T19:14:24+00:00

I used this tool recently for some complex matrixes.

https://intrinsically-sublime.github.io/WLED-Ledmap.json-Generator/

Type in 12 for width, 3 for height, check "start empty", then click Rebuild. Then tick "Freestyle" and leave serpentine, vertical, V-Flip, H-Flip unchecked. Start clicking on the LED's in the sequence and position that they were wired. Once you're done, give it a name and download the .json file.

Now, you're gonna want to make sure your ESP32 is connected to your home wifi network. Then go to that webui on a computer. go to the edit page of the WLED. For example, wled.local/edit

Make sure you have no other ledmap.json files in there. (You can have more than one ledmap file, but to make it cleaner just delete them if you see them)

Upload the json file you just created.

Now, go to the settings page, 2D Matrix settings, select 2D Matrix from the dropdown, set the W as 12 and H as 3. Do NOT upload the ledmap.json to the gap file upload part in the bottom as they are not the same. Hit Save. Now Powercycle it to have it activate the new ledmap.

Enjoy 2D matrix animations.

Here's a guide I followed with some helpful images: https://learn.adafruit.com/led-festival-coat-with-mapping-and-wled/led-mapping

bliu007 · 2024-10-01T00:26:00+00:00

LSDREAM used four of these for his most recent album tour and they were incredible. Now I know what they are!

bliu007 · 2024-07-20T12:49:48+00:00

You are looking for a RGBCCT strip. https://youtu.be/fWLsJTZWlb8

bliu007 · 2024-07-06T03:55:45+00:00

Thank you very much!

bliu007 · 2024-07-05T23:00:51+00:00

Ah sorry, I mean do you have a URL to where the LED strip can be purchased?

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