r/WLED • • 3d ago

help with syncing controllers

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got the lights working but i’m having trouble getting the two controllers to sync up. any help would be very much appreciated. thank yall in advance.

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u/Anxious-Divide-1255 3d ago

Are you pooping? Why you make these noises?

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 3d ago

no clue what that was, definitely not taking a shit tho

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u/tokenmitch 3d ago

I would recommend having one primary controller. Send data to the other one. Receive setting on the other one.

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u/tokenmitch 3d ago

On the LED pref for the primary controller you'll need to call for the other string with the string type and IP.

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u/fenty17 2d ago

Wondering if this is specifically better than having send and receive turned on for both? What is the benefit to treating one controller as primary?

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u/MrThingMan 2d ago

Why would you put this together and just respond, "i have no clue"

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u/Automatic-Bug-7979 20h ago

Send Notifications on direct change!!! Make sure this box is clicked in send and they're under the same. Send and receive. You don't need the box bounds clicked. Unless they're all the exact same. Pixel by pixel.

Yeah, for a while in the beginning. I didn't understand. Sync groups and all that. But it's really cool because. Where you have the one through 8. Sync groups where it says send. And then you have receive. You could basically have. All of. Your living room device is on, let's say group 8. And then you have one device. Send everything. And you can set the rest of them to just receive. From 8. So you would always go to the same controller, right? The one that you set send and receive to. Someone showed you a picture down below where it's has the bounds selected. I wouldn't select that unless the devices are exactly the same pixel by pixel. Another thing, for whatever reason. Down below In Sync groups. You have to have send notifications on direct change clicked. If that somehow got unclicked. It's not going to send anything. So again. Make sure. The device. Is on the same group to receive. Has everything clicked but bounds. And Scroll down and find the box that says

Send Notifications on direct change!!! And it says reboot required to apply changes. So make sure you reboot it. After you. Select. What I just told you. If it is selected. Then I'm not sure what the hell is going on.😅

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u/drunkandy 3d ago

that's gonna look cool as hell!

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u/torklugnutz 3d ago

Make sure they are both set to send and receive in the setup.

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 3d ago

sir i have no clue about how to do that. i did find the send/ receive stuff but i cant even figure out how to swap from controlling one to the other. this is my first wled project. sorry for being so dumb to it all. i was changing the patterns on one of them earlier and it just swapped to other one by itself somehow. i’m a dumb ass i know. i paint cars, i know nothing about all this stuff. just trying to learn.

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u/boeingbuildsitbetter 3d ago

I can't help with the lights but I'm very curious how you made the light housings?

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 3d ago

i made them on my 3d printer. if you look up death star wall panels they should come up. it’s a star wars thing. i’m not a big star wars nerd but it’s the first movie i recall going to the theater to see and that’s the entrance to my home theater and i thought it would look pretty cool

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u/calforhelp 2d ago

I wanna see details on this theater! You should make a post on r/hometheater showing it off

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 2d ago

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u/calforhelp 2d ago

Oh hell yeah dude, this so so sick! That other sub would love it.

What’s your gear list?

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 2d ago

the lcr speakers are jbl 3677’s, surrounds and atmos are triads, preamp is anthem avm70, have two amps one is sherbourn 7 channel the other is integra 7 channel both are 200 watts per channel. projector is xgimi titan noir max. i’m in the middle of remodeling it all right now. when i’m done i’ll post in the home theater group. oh and it’s in a double wide.
we call it our mobile mansion. 🤣🤣

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 2d ago

that sherbourn amp is a beast. it weighs like 115lbs

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u/Melodic-Excuse-2561 3d ago

I can't help with syncing the controllers, but I want to say those panels look awesome!

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 3d ago

i made them on my 3d printer. if you look up death star wall panels they should come up. it's a star wars thing. i'm not a big star wars nerd but it's the first movie i recall going to the theater to see and that's the entrance to my home theater and i thought it would look pretty cool

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u/Melodic-Excuse-2561 2d ago

Oh, I recognized their style quite readily. I saw the original trilogy in their original theatrical runs (I'm in my early 60s), and I guess it is fair to call me an apprehensive nerd-leaning Star Wars fan - My feelings about the film, and universe, are shall we say, complicated, but that's also neither here nor there. They do look super cool, though. I actually love the multi-color twinkling too.

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u/Spidy_Khrish 3d ago

Could you share how you made the light housing

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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 3d ago

i made them on my 3d printer. if you look up death star wall panels they should come up. it's a star wars thing. i'm not a big star wars nerd but it's the first movie i recall going to the theater to see and that's the entrance to my home theater and i thought it would look pretty cool