Hey Team. A quick question but probs not a quick answer.
I have set-up these ‘stage lights’ for my band and a little festival I run. I am having obviously some issues easily controlling the lights from my unit from a decent enough distance away so as I’m not up near the stage annoying the musos.
I was wonderring if anyone out there has used a wifi extender or old router at all to increase the reach so in turn creating it’s own network to connect to so I can control it from an iPad or my phone a bit further away? I could always pester the venue to connect to their internal network but this just makes it a bit awkward and I’d like to keep it all with me.
Another thing I have noticed is that my continuous playlist for when my band is playing, as there’s obviously nobody to control our set lights, that they play once and then glitch out and go to white. And ‘yes’ this is all set to continuously repeat. This can be sporadic and no real set indication as to why and when it happens. I’ll keep testing but it all worked fine at home but I only had one light connected at the time. Might be a memory issue to playback on all eight.
Sure you can use a router and use it for a network for your lights. It does not need to have internet access. However if you connect your phone or whatever to it, it will also not have internet access anymore till you disconnect from it.
Just a lil tip on your control enclosure. You have your pigtails backwards. Normally the Feed side of circuits has the female connection and whatever you are powering/plugging in is the male connection. Reason: you don’t have exposed pins sticking out to be more easily shorted when nothing is connected to them (think of the outlets in your house). Just something to look out for for future projects
Yeah, I was going to get a mini router to chuck in there so it extends the reach. I just wondered if anyone had done something similar that they might have a recommended router to use.
I know the pigtails are backwards as it was easier to mount the tails in the box with them. There were no screw in mount options for the box. The extension cables have the same ends on them so it wouldn’t matter what end you had you could still plug it in. It was a conscious decision as setup needed to be a tad easy.
Just an addition to this. I have purchased a tp-link TL-WR802N Wireless Router that runs from USB (5v si I can run it off the exiting power supply internally)
I’ll update on here so it may help someone wanting to do the same in the future.
at this times @chumf almost every equipment is on the 2,4Ghz value so may got in trouble with the Frequences and the channels
as special the microfones swap there frequences almost every 200ms to find the best
and interfear the system
there is a ESP32 that got SMA plug
and ofcause you can use BUT NOT WILL use the ESP ETH
I did so for our stage at a large techno festival and on several smaller gigs. works flawelessly and with no delay, using 15 ESP32 units for powering distributed fixtures.
Only thing that ever caused trouble was a Wireless DMX sender aimed right at our wifi access point. once we figured it out, any lag was gone.
Pro tip: You may want to make the network invisible and disable wifi sleep on WLED. The ESPs are connect nonetheless, but lower risk of random connection attempts from the crowd.
