Darren Hedlund you may be interested in something like this.

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@Darren_Hedlund you may be interested in something like this. I was looking at some alternatives for “syncing” a show as well. What someone else said about WiFi and noisy environments made sense. I would hate to go ESP direction only to have them in many places and not be able to “keep up” with the show. This looks like a great alternative for a good price. I’ve seen others that are more pricy. http://shop.dmxking.com/LeDMX4-PRO_p_37.html

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Thanks, was thinking that also. So far my bench marks for WiFi using this E1.31 to send the data has been successful granted of course I just started testing so got to make sure there is plan B.

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@Darren_Hedlund yep, prob depends on scale of project and surroundings too.

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Interesting board. It covers a lot of stuff.

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@Trey_Coursey Well, I already modified my existing WiFi to reach 14,000 radius radius with a range booster, but going to create a new dedicated access point just for this project.
Then, I plan on having several NodeMcu V3 each with at least 300 pixels powered by a couple 5v 60amp 300w PSU
Each node will receive the data to do various patterns when not sequencing music. I might have about 8k pixels or more so wanted to limit wires to inside tracks to keep everything clean.
Of course this might fail and will need a backup plan. lol

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@Darren_Hedlund I’m trying to wrap my head around the Universe thing. You might can shed some light for me. I know a Universe consists of 512 channels. I understand an RGB pixel takes 3 channels to control. What I’m not finding specific information about is how many universes an ESP8266 can handle at one time with one cable. I currently have my main string made up of 3 strings of 160. So 480 RGB pixels, will need 1,440 channel outputs, which will be 3 universes. Can one ESP8266 NodeMCU v1 handle that and how is it setup in Vixen? Thanks for any thoughts.