Xyloband patent

That is a great find, it's not a parallel design, it is the initial design patent....

xylobands.com/terms-and-conditions/

So everything mentioned in there is likely to be in the current design including zonal and even unique IDs.

Assuming concert crowds are 70,000 you'd need >2 bytes just for a unique ID




Searching on Regler I also found this (works at 2.4GHz but also mentions "zones" )
german.ledsets.com/products/RGB-LED-strip-controller-1-to-10-2261133.html