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Title: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: mlindell on June 28, 2016, 06:59:03 PM
Setting up lights for the 4th. I have 7 Univ programmed up. When I connect the lights 6 of the univ come up and flash G/R/B and 1 univ flashes B/R/G. I can move the univ this is backwards to a different univ and still same backward colors. Can you set each univ to a different color comb output. Got this color order by going thur the test mode on the controller. Any help, my time is running out.

running 2811 strip lights
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: bwinter on June 28, 2016, 07:05:54 PM
Which version of firmware is on the device?  I had similar types of issues when I used the device out-of-the-box, prior to upgrading the firmware.
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: mlindell on June 28, 2016, 07:13:11 PM
Firmware 1.04 Nov 2015
The thing is it moves with the light strip. Can you program each univ with a different color sequence.
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: bwinter on June 28, 2016, 07:21:12 PM
1.04 isn't the most recent version of firmware for AlphaPix, version 1 (at least, I don't think so).  However, I'm not sure that is the problem (my problem exists with AlphaPix, version 2).

But I don't know how you would assign different universes with different color sequences.  Instead of assigning through the test mode, are you able to connect/control through your browser?
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: mlindell on June 28, 2016, 07:45:39 PM
Yes no problem connecting thur web browser. But it looks like you can change color sequence but it for the whole controller not each univ.
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: jnealand on June 28, 2016, 07:47:14 PM
And now you have another reason why the F16v2r is such a great controller.
Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: needbin on June 29, 2016, 04:48:23 AM
Switch the alphapix16 from normal mode to test mode and run a test. Use the + or - to change the colors. If the controller says red and green shows up.. Your strands are not RGB..

this happened to me with 48 strands.


Title: Re: Alphpix 16 need help !!!
Post by: markrvp on June 29, 2016, 12:11:40 PM
If you move the light strand from one SPI output to another and get the same results, then it's most likely the string of lights is a different R G B order. 

Alphapix Firmware 2.0 is the first to allow you to change R G B color order by SPI output (not by universe).  You need to check this page:  https://www.holidaycoro.com/kb_results.asp?ID=114 (https://www.holidaycoro.com/kb_results.asp?ID=114) and verify which version of the Alphapix board you have.  If you are running a 1.x version of the firmware, then I think you must have a version 1 of the board which does not support different R G B output by SPI.  That ability came with the version 2 board in September of 2015.  The version 3 boards came out in March 2016.   

Now here is the good news.  As long as the RGB string(s) in question are on one prop, and not connected with a different color order string of lights, just change the RGB order in xLights for that prop.