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== Ready made LED Scancards == | |||
LED Scancards (receiving cards) are available from [http://www.led-card.com/ LED-CARD Store]. Tom recommends those from Nova Star although others, e.g. Linsn, DBstar, NovaStar etc. should still work. | |||
The control software from Nova (Nova Mars) is by far the most friendly and widely used LED panel control software, [https://www.dropbox.com/s/17r9j3b2ycbif82/NovaLCT-Mars%20V4.4.1%20Setup.exe?dl=0 NovaLCT-Mars V4.4.1 Setup.exe] and [https://www.dropbox.com/s/xutbswt1c742isb/Nova%20Mars%20-%20LED%20Control%20Software%20User%20Manual%20v1.6.pdf?dl=0 User manual]. | |||
If you buy a LED screen from DigiLED they will give you a pre-made config file called an rcfg file. This is the file that configures the Scancard to work with a given design of LED tile. However because this isn't a standard digiLED product Tom cant share a ready made file with you. Instead, you need to create the file yourself. | |||
This is done from the Receiving Card Tab of the Screen Configuration menu. Look for a menu called "Smart Settings". | |||
Smart settings will walk you through a wizard where you click-in the multiplex/scan info, the RGB order info and the pixel map info of the LED tile, all guided by lit up sections of the LED tile and click responses in Mars. The end result of this process is a newly created rcfg file that will configure your Scancard of choice to you LED tile of choice. | |||
=== Which card? === | |||
Tom recommends you start with the [http://www.led-card.com/novastar-mrv336-led-display-receptor.html Novastar MRV336 LED Display Wall Receiver Card] because it's cheap and can do lots and lots of LED tiles on one card. | |||
You are also going to need one a [http://www.led-cardcom/novastar-msd300-led-display-decoder.html Novastar LED MCTRL300 Synchronous LED Sender Box] to act as your DVI to LED converter card. | |||
With this little bundle of kit you literally have enough to map a 64x16 pixel slice of your computer desktop straight onto the LED tiles at full video quality and frame-rate. Add more LED tiles for bigger pixel space. Copy Paste Repeat and you could take this all the way to 4k width or height although a screen with these pixels at 4k size would be mahussive!!! | |||
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