Colorlight 5A-75B v8 Panel Controller
The Colorlight Card is a board specifically designed to run panels. Unlike FPP using a Beaglebone Black with an Octoscrolla or a Raspberry Pi with a Pi hat, the Colorlight Card has dedicated, purpose-built hardware to manage many different panel configurations. To get data to the Colorlight Card, you can utilize a dedicated sending interface or FPP . Either way, any connection being made to the Colorlight Card must be Gigabit. The Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or the Raspberry Pi 4B is a great way to get your panel data directly to the Colorlight card without having switching hardware in-between.
The Colorlight Card needs to be configured to work correctly. Please visit the following page to download the latest version of the LEDVISION software. As of 8/21/2021, the current recommended version is listed as 8.0. https://www.lednets.com/Products/Software/37_31.html
For help building out a panel, please take a look our Matrix Buildout Configurator and Calculator. It will create a plug and play solution for building a panel to your specifications.
Note: Two power inputs are provided. You only need to supply power to one input.
Below is a great video that explains some of the different ways in which you can run Panels. The second half of the video focuses directly on Colorlight Cards and their configuration.A direct link to the video can be found here: http://videos.xlights.org/xessentials-e26-p5-p10-panels-and-the-colorlight-board_f8084fcc8.html
