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Title: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: clafont on December 11, 2017, 07:08:45 AM

All,

I am new to xlights and I've been reading the manual and watching videos.  I have the following matrix:
http://www.holidaycoro.com/600-Pixel-Matrix-Screen-Kit-p/779.htm

I am trying to do a new years eve countdown on the matrix.  I have the first line scrolling "Happy New Year".  The second line has the countdown d h m s.  The text effect and countdown effect show up correctly and scroll from the left. 

Issue:  The countdown clock does not update or countdown the time. Whatever time it is when you update the effect is the time that is displayed.  Any advice?

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 11, 2017, 10:22:06 AM

Real time count downs like this should be done by your show player. Xschedule or fpp. XLights embeds the data statically in the fseq which is why you are seeing what you are seeing.

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: clafont on December 11, 2017, 11:15:42 AM

Great!  So it sounds like I am on the right track.  At this point I have not used the scheduler portion of xlights so I hope its user friendly.  Any suggestions on a good tutorial video for the latest version of the xlights  scheduler?

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 11, 2017, 12:12:51 PM

Videos.xlights.org. There is a video specifically on text overlays.

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: Centauri61032 on December 15, 2017, 09:48:45 AM

Could you tell me the name of that video? So I can search for it?
Thanks!

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: Gilrock on December 15, 2017, 10:22:12 AM

Yeah I can never find videos on that website either.  I goto the videos page and all I can see are "New" videos and "Popular" video but I cannot see how to view a list of "All" videos.

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: algerdes on December 16, 2017, 10:42:31 AM

I have to agree with Gil.  Featured and New is all we see.  The site statistics says there are 195 total videos.

Searching for "overlay" does not bring up anything.  Just "text" or "text overlay" only brings up a listing for "Real time text rendering in xSchedule".  Since we use FPP, xSchedule isn't of any help.

If there is a way, a simple index of all videos would be most welcome!

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: clafont on December 16, 2017, 01:25:51 PM

Ok.  I scheduled the show to run in the player and it still will not update the time as it scrolls.

So frustrating.

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: clafont on December 17, 2017, 09:26:07 AM

Has anyone used the countdown effect with success?

Title: Re: Matrix Countdown effect not counting down
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 17, 2017, 12:03:50 PM

You need to head over to the falcon Christmas forum where they have information on how to do this. XLights can do a countdown but because it is created when you render the sequence it is rarely what people want.