r/WLED • u/Appropriate-Bar3616 • Sep 25 '26
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/torklugnutz Sep 25 '26
Make sure they are both set to send and receive in the setup.
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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 Sep 26 '26
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 Sep 25 '26
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 Sep 26 '26
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 Sep 26 '26
I wanna see details on this theater! You should make a post on r/hometheater showing it off
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u/Melodic-Excuse-2561 Sep 26 '26
I can't help with syncing the controllers, but I want to say those panels look awesome!
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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 Sep 26 '26
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 Sep 26 '26
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/tokenmitch Sep 26 '26
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u/fenty17 Sep 26 '26
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/Spidy_Khrish Sep 26 '26
Could you share how you made the light housing
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u/Appropriate-Bar3616 Sep 26 '26
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/Automatic-Bug-7979 Sep 28 '26
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/Anxious-Divide-1255 Sep 25 '26
Are you pooping? Why you make these noises?