900 Addressable LED with MEGA 2560 and Jinx?

Other Hardware LEDs and Multiplexing
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Hi everyone,

I'm an Arduino noob, with only a few small projects under my belt. What I'm looking to do is make an Addressable LED wall under the counter at the brewery I work at. The wall is 4' tall and 31' wide, and I'll be using 8 5m rolls of 12v WS2812 strips, with power injected in between every string, from a 12v 30a power supply. There's also a small end wall, with 88 pixels, currently running nicely off the Mega, with just a FastLED demo.

FastLED seems fine, but I want to add a matrix, and have GUI control (like Jinx). The matrix would be 200px wide a 4 tall - we have reclaimed barnwood under there with 110v single-color LED strips now, behind the wood shining up and down. It looks great but we want to animate.

I have a Mega 2560, but I can buy something else if recommended.

I like the GUI of Jinx, and have heard horror stories about Glediator, but I'm not dead set either way.

My problem so far is the 512 limitation... I have 888 pixels that need to light up.

My questions:
What are your recommendations?

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I would seriously consider this
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_libs_OctoWS2811.html

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To add some complexity, we also have a stage with a massive wall of 110v LED strips, a total of probably 600', driven by 4 DMX controllers (and a smaller wall in the picture by the menu board). I'd LOVE to integrate DMX into this, with stage lighting also.

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Check out the Wall of Light project here:-
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/projects.html