Baldrick17 Web Interface

System Information

The Stats board gives you a heads up as to what's going on with your controller.

Quick Testing & Troubleshooting

Test mode is one of the most important features of the Baldrick Board, if it's two hours before switch on and something is going wrong, YOU NEED CLEAR INFORMATION QUICKLY.

Colour Presets

We've created a bunch of presets to help you with your testing but we got bored with just writing colours so we thought we'd have some fun with the names. You might want to have a look at something special we've introduced called Hodgical Mode

Brightness

Sometimes 100% is too much Have you done those power calculations correctly?so we give you the choice of brightness.

Apply to

Select your port (or all ports) then select if you want ALL configured pixels, 750 pixels or 50 pixels.

Immature Humour

Some of our vendors think their customers are a bit sensitive so have asked us to put the fun stuff behind an option. If you go to Advanced Settings you can Enable Immature Humour

Visual Effects Generator

With more and more of our community putting pixels on their house all year round or producing lightart, we've produced CunningFX for you to add pretty stuff to your show without a show player.

A video for this is coming soon.

Manual Port Setup

Let's be honest, most of the time you are going to be using xLights to play with your ports but if you want to be a strong independent person, you can drill down into each port, monitor and configure the models, the pixel count and brightness.

Good Defaults, Easy Config

Network Discovery

The Baldrick17 will keep an eye out on the network for other Baldricks and let you know how they are doing (this is helpful as we don't put an LCD screen on the board).

Test Sync

Ticking this box will sync the test mode between all compatible boards, meaning if you are doing something on the house and want all your baldricks in Test Mode, it's very easy to do!

Protocol Configuration

Advanced Configuration Options

We avoided it for so long but it's finally time to have a "box to stick stuff that doesn't fit in the other categories" and here it is, Advanced Settings.

Receive Beta Software Releases

Sometimes features need a bit more testing before we are ready to push them out to the wider world, if you like living on the edge (or just like being nosey).

Enable Immature Humour

Some of our vendors love the board but do NOT appreciate our humour and so asked to remove the childish brightness names and test modes. This setting lets those customers WHO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM turn them back on.

External Input Triggers

The Baldrick17 comes with three turninputs to attach external triggers (buttons, beam breaks, motion sensors) that can be configured when triggered to do a multitude of tasks.

Each input has two action states - either pressed instantly or held. When an input is in the active state, the interface will show the status by highlighting the LED.

Available Actions

FPP Integration Details

FPP (or Falcon Pi Player) is our recommended show player for the holiday lighting hobby. It has some really powerful functionality and is simple to setup and use, that power also extends to its API which allows people to do some really cool stuff. But we don't think you should have to learn the API to do that cool stuff.

We've two ways of using FPP which have proper names but let's call them 'Easy' (Control an FPP Instance) and 'Advanced' (Call an FPP API Directly).

Both start off the same way by selecting the FPP instance that you'd like to interact with. If we can't find it automatically you can put in an IP address (although it might be worth finding out why we can't find it as it will be pretty hard to send commands to something we cannot find).

Control an FPP Instance

This section takes away having to use the scary API to ask FPP to do some things. For our initial version you can change the volume of FPP (either forever or for a period of seconds) or play a song / playlist / random song from a playlist.

Sorry did I say or I meant AND. You can do both of these, with one input and we will even pull in live your sequences and playlists direct from FPP.

Call an FPP API Directly

If you want to get your hands dirty with FPP commands, here it is - almost everything you can do via the API direct and configurable to be executed via a Baldrick17 input!

Test Mode Activation

Sometimes you just want to quickly test how the props look (or put something up when the neighbors pop round to 'see how it's going'). You can quickly enable any of our test modes at a specific brightness with the touch (or activation) of an input.

BaldrickSwitchy Control

Have you heard about BaldrickSwitchy? Do you want to turn on your bubble machine, snow machine, AC lights or anything else via xLights or a Baldrick Button?

From this section you can turn on (or off) a BaldrickSwitchy port for x number of seconds.

Much like FPP, we will automatically detect the board and whilst I'd love to have the screenshot of it here, at the time of writing this documentation my BaldrickSwitchy is in another building and it's far too hot to move from the sofa, did you know Britain is having a bit of a heatwave right now?

BaldrickDMX Preset Activation

This function will activate a preset command on your BaldrickDMX, perfect for activating a snow machine, bubble machine or pointing a moving head at one specific spot.

HTTP URL Calls

When we first launched the Baldrick17, we were so proud of this feature! Imagine being able to call a web API from a simple trigger! We even wrote a Quick FPP API Guide to help someone start and stop sequences.

Do Nothing

Sometimes you set an input to do something and think, oh actually no, that's not what I want, what I actually wanted was it to do nothing.

Now you can, you. are. welcome.

Final Result

When that's all done, you might have a little something that looks like this.