Hi I have a led matrix (60x 20 pixels - 20 strips of APA

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Hi
I have a led matrix (60x 20 pixels - 20 strips of APA 102 leds, 60leds per strip)

I would like to send led data from JINX led Animator software to the matrix via wireless (tpm2net or Artnet protocol)
At the receiver and planning to use node MCU esp 8266 , Arduino and FASTLED

Needed some advise how to start with. Is there any sample code available?

Thanks

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I think your going to have a challenge. If you haven’t already look at espixelstick and check it out. It sits around 4 universes of data. Any more and the refresh rate is not good. However the espixelstick is designed around the ws281x pixels. The issue with those is getting the wifi interrupt and the pixel data to play nice. Perhaps apa 102 with the clock pin could do a better job. The higher universe/pixel count the faster the MCU needs to read the buffer even faster and write the pixeldata without dropping packets. I have researched this extensively and the closest I have found to what your wanting to do is the espixelstick but it’s running sacn e1.31 instead of artnet.

Personally wireless is great but has limitations and it’s not as guaranteed compared to hardline especially for that many pixels. Perhaps using 2 or three of these might work but I can’t imagine the high radio traffic would keep them all happy and not dropping frames

After going down your path and realizing the limitations of this great chip and better understanding where it fits in my applications I ended up finding a better solution to my needs. It’s not wireless but it’s solid and can run thousands of pixels.

Meet Teensy (plugged into a megapixel controller board)

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Here is another project worthy of trying out.

My last statement on the multiple esp8266 was not very faithful when in reality it can be done but will require a decent ap with a low noise floor. In an Environment with large crowds wifi will be an issue especially in 2.4 frequencies. When wifi noise is high esps may have issues keeping up. End result could be your display may have un synced sections.

Worth a shot and may be a perfect solution for you.

Let us know your results

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@Chris_Rees
Hi
The link you provided (Artnet LED Pixels) is really helpful.
Thank you so much for your time. I am going to check it.

Meantime I found another link with FASTLED library
I already tested with 2 universe of pixels(working fine)
But if I increase the number of universe update is so slow. I am losing led data

Link is below
Code is modified to work with APA102 chip
https://pastebin.com/rBSD0Sqm