TupeloTechie
Active Member
I'm working on a small project with generic WS2811 RGB 30ppm Pixel Strip. I'm needing around 5-7 strips of varying lengths (6in to 2ft.) One end of each strip, along with all the power/data guts will live in a small flowerpot.
Due to the nature of the prop, clean wiring is essential, and I'd like to not have to run a "daisy chain" data wire from the exposed ends back to the flowerpot.
I don't need (or want) individual control of each strip, so what I'd like to be able to do is gang all the data lines from each strip together (as shown in quick diagram below) so that the first pixel of each tape is controlled as one, and so on, even though some strips will be shorter and therefore not have led 6 or 7, etc.
My question is whether this is even possible with the WS2811 protocol? I've found conflicting info about such parallel wiring on google and thought someone here might have the knowledge.
Due to the nature of the prop, clean wiring is essential, and I'd like to not have to run a "daisy chain" data wire from the exposed ends back to the flowerpot.
I don't need (or want) individual control of each strip, so what I'd like to be able to do is gang all the data lines from each strip together (as shown in quick diagram below) so that the first pixel of each tape is controlled as one, and so on, even though some strips will be shorter and therefore not have led 6 or 7, etc.
My question is whether this is even possible with the WS2811 protocol? I've found conflicting info about such parallel wiring on google and thought someone here might have the knowledge.