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Title: What is the best way
Post by: mgholland on February 12, 2016, 02:09:29 PM

I posted this over on Falcon Christmas also.
I have had red, green and white plain leds not RGB at 12" apart on my roof so I could turn on either of the colors I wanted or all if wanted. They were running from LOR controller in Xlights.

My question is-
If I  buy 4" spacing on new RGB nodes can I define them as red,green,white,red,green.white etc... so they would be approximately 12" apart in xlights and in the Falcon16v2?
Maybe like these http://www.holidaycoro.com/Brilliant-Bulb-p/709-ps.htm

Then I could put an effect on only the red nodes that would be 12" apart or the green or the white and would look a little more like the traditional Christmas lights and maybe copy the existing channels red to red from one sequence to another?

Then can they also be set up as regular rgb strings and put an effect across all at once and they would be what ever color the effect would have bene set to?
It sounds llike these would have to be seperate model groups but not sure how to set them up for xlights and the F16v2. Would F16v2 use virtual strings to describe them or would it know which nodes to light by the model in xlights.
Thanks in advance fro the help!!!

Title: Re: What is the best way
Post by: rcowan on February 12, 2016, 03:56:22 PM

One way that I can think of doing this is with the marquee effect. You wouldn't need to do anything special in xLights or the F16V2.

Let's say you want your lights to go like this: R G W R G W R G W... but you only wanted to light up the red ones. Just drop a Marquee effect on to the strand and then set the settings so that only the 1st, 4th, 7th, etc. lights are on.  Set the color for red and then only the 1st, 4th, 7th, etc. lights will be lit up red. If you then wanted to do green (starting with the second light) you would just have to change the color and the start position. If you wanted them all on as R G W R G W R G W... just use the same marquee effect and select all 3 of those colors. You'll want to set the speed for the marquee effect to 0 so that it doesn't chase.

I have attached the effect settings for the marquee effect.

Title: Re: What is the best way
Post by: mgholland on February 12, 2016, 04:58:54 PM

Thanks rcowan I will take a look at that.