Raspberry Pie instead of Novastar for 10x P5 LED panels

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Hi, I am planning to build a fixture with 10 P5 LED panels (HUB75). To avoid the cost of a Novastar (even the entry-level sending card would be just as much as the panels themselves) I thought of using a Raspberry Pie 4 (with the additional benefit of being able to use that for other purposes aswell.
Sending the video from the PC would be done using the LMCSHD software to send a screen recording to the RPi.

Do you guys think this would be possible? Getting the Novastar would be a much cleaner solution, but considering I’ll be using just 0.02 Million of it’s 1.3 Million pixel capacity, it feels so overkill…

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Check out this project:

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Thank you for the quick info! I’ll have a look into it :slight_smile:
One more (beginner) question that I couldn’t really find an info for: The panels I want to use have HUB75-D connectors. Most of the receiver boards are only available as HUB75-E connectors (so same connector with different pinout).
Do these boards automatically switch their output or can you configure it? Or do I need to search for a HUB75-D specific board?

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D should refer to having 4 (ABCD) address lines, E to 5. Usually panels that are 32 pixels high need 4 lines, 64 pixels 5 lines. Driver boards should handle both