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General => Lights => Topic started by: robbiet on August 04, 2019, 07:31:05 AM

Title: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: robbiet on August 04, 2019, 07:31:05 AM

Hi guys.  I’m currently running version 37 of xlights and I’m no longer able to output to lights after enabling FPP Proxy to connect to my falcon F16V3.

For FPP, I’m running it standalone on a PI which is my access point to my show network/F16V3. My laptop connects wirelessly to the Pi via my home network and I have a separate show network connected by Ethernet.  FPP is version 3.0 and the f16 is running 2.50 firmware.

I started using the proxy feature to avoid having to always set up the routing on my computer. Overall, everything seems to be working and I can get my lights working if I either control from the controller or FPP webpages. I just can’t get it to work from xlights directly.  Am I missing a setting somewhere?


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Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: dkulp on August 04, 2019, 12:44:31 PM

Did you put FPP into bridge mode?

Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: robbiet on August 04, 2019, 01:06:53 PM

Oh, I didn’t realize I needed to do that. I’ll give that a try. Thanks Dan!


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Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: robbiet on August 04, 2019, 06:37:23 PM

That did the trick. Thanks again!


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Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: dm9991966 on October 19, 2019, 03:00:47 PM

I'm not 100% sure I followed this.  My setup is sounds the same, but I cannot seem to control lights from xLights via the proxy, but maybe I'm misunderstaning the original post.

I have an FPP running v3.2-25a2c0a, and an F48v3 running v2.52.

The FPP is connected to my home network via WiFi on 192.168.1.16.  That's perhaps an over-simplification.  My broadband gateway has a wireless network on 192.168.1.x.  My home network connects to the gateway via ethernet through a WRT-54g, with a internal network of 10.x.x.x.  However, I can bring up the FPP interface on 192.168.1.16 with no issues.

The show network is on 192.168.2.x
The FPP's ethernet address is 192.168.2.16.
There is an F48v3 on address 192.168.2.32.

When I use xLights to update the F48 via the proxy from my desktop (10.x.x.x > 192.168.1.16 > 162.168.2.32), all works well and changes get updated.
When I put the FPP in Bridge mode, enable Output to Lights in xLights and run a sequence, I see nothing on the lights.

Am I misunderstanding the abailities of the proxy setup?  Should I be able to control my lights via xLights through the FPP as a proxy?  If I connect my laptop physically to the ethernet show network, xLights can control the lights just fine.

Thanks in advance!!

Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: dm9991966 on October 23, 2019, 12:32:41 PM

I just realized the above description is a lot to take in, so attaching a network overview jpeg.  Should I be able to turn on the Output to Lights in xLights and control the F48 through the FPP proxy, or am I missing something?

Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: keithsw1111 on October 23, 2019, 07:51:39 PM

What address did you put in the proxy field and did you do it for all outputs.

Title: Re: Output to lights not working with FPP Proxy
Post by: dm9991966 on October 24, 2019, 11:54:31 AM

On the setup tab, there are 2 entries for the F48.  One entry is for universe 1 with 80 channels for the LOR controllers connected, the second entry is starts at Universe 10 (I don't remember how many universes, not at home right now).

In both entries, the IP address is 192.168.2.32 (the eth0 for the F48), and the FPP Proxy address is 192.168.1.16, (the wlan0 address for the FPP).