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Software => General Software => Topic started by: pixelbutcher on December 14, 2018, 02:41:41 PM

Title: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: pixelbutcher on December 14, 2018, 02:41:41 PM

Good afternoon,

I have been using xLights to program shows for the Minleon NEC. The application use to be able to render and export a .bin file. The current versions have removed this function. How can I get this function back? Or has it been moved somewhere?

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 14, 2018, 03:35:12 PM

It hasn’t moved recently.


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Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: pixelbutcher on December 14, 2018, 04:20:06 PM

It is not an option under Render and Export as a file type any more.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 14, 2018, 05:06:19 PM

It is in mine. I am on .55 and it is where is has  been for quite some time. At least since we reorganised the right click menus.

Maybe your model type is not valid for minleon export.


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Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: Gilrock on December 14, 2018, 06:53:00 PM

It looks like we limit the export file type list for model groups but I can't remember the reason.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 15, 2018, 04:55:13 AM

Yes because the necs see everything as a matrix.


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Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: pixelbutcher on December 17, 2018, 06:54:15 AM

Well what is the limit? The sequences that I have tried to export I have exported before to .bin files with no issue. and in the current version I open them in xLights and cannot export.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: Gilrock on December 17, 2018, 07:29:17 AM

How are you getting there?  You keep saying export a sequence.  I couldn't figure out where you are doing that.  I was talking about exporting a model and the "limit" is it cannot be a model group.  You will know its a group because it will have that triangle, square, circle group icon beside it.  You're probably the only one left that still uses that format.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: pixelbutcher on December 17, 2018, 07:34:00 AM

Thanks for the help. I figured it out based on the posed about the NEC seeing things as a grid. I was trying to export a sequence that used a model made of poly lines so that I could better map the tree. The style of trees that I program do not work well in the default trees that xLights offers. Regardless I have resolved my issue. Thank you for the assistance.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: Gilrock on December 17, 2018, 08:07:37 AM

Yeah I'm not sure why we don't export groups.  xLights also sees everything as a matrix.  Groups are a matrix just a much bigger one.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: Gilrock on December 17, 2018, 08:09:35 AM

Problem is more likely that although we represent it as a matrix you probably don't have it represented as an equal sized matrix in Minleon so channels would never line up.

Title: Re: Minleon NEC .bin File
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 17, 2018, 10:07:15 AM

Folks who use minleon typically create a matrix mapped to the same channels as their models and use the matrix to do the export. That way they can sequence to the real models but xlights also knows the right format for the bin file based on the matrix properties.


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