Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: laserman on December 27, 2019, 09:57:39 PM
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I have another problem that has had me stumped for several days now despite spending many hours per day on the problem. I have multiple groups of nodes (in two cases entire strings) throughout my display that remain dark when I play sequences. The dark nodes are always in the same locations.
When I test the lights directly from the FPP or the Falcon F16V3 controllers, every node lights up perfectly. I turn on each port one at a time and the correct string of each model lights up as it should. Similarly, when I test the lights from the xLights Test Output tab, each output turns on the correct string of lights and all the lights on that string light up.
The problems manifest themselves when I test the lights from either the xLights Model Group or Model tabs. Each model I test has the exact same unlit lights that show up when I play a sequence on that model.
I have reviewed my models multiple times and don’t see anything wrong but clearly I am missing something. Any suggestions on what to look for?
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I forgot to include some additional information that may help in analyzing my problem. First, all of my models are polyline (i.e., icicles, ridge strips, and windows). Second, I discovered an interesting phenomenon when I was testing my models directly from the xLights Test Model tab. I had one model called “Garage window” that was still in my layout that I was not using in my show. By that I mean it does not physically have anything in the field, nor is it included anywhere in the sequence. However, when I “tested” this model via the xLights Test Model tab, all of the lights that DO NOT WORK OTHERWISE that are scattered across the house in the other various polyline models, DID come on. Further, those are the only lights that came on and nothing associated with the original “Garage Window” came on.
Even though I had no idea what was going on, I thought I was on to something so I completely deleted that model. Unfortunately that had no effect on the issue and I still have the same problems with the sections not lighting up.
One last thing, I executed the “Make All Start Channels Not Overlapping” command. It changed the start channels for each of my models so I had to change those back to their correct locations. It left all of the other segments of the polyline models alone. None of this helped with the scattered sections that do not light problem.
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Sounds like you need to fix your start channels.
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I don't know what to do to fix them because I don't see anything wrong. I hav checked them multiple times. The xLights setup matches the xLights models which matches the FPP which matches the controllers.
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Well you haven't shown us anything so I don't see anything wrong either. All I can suggest is ditch the Test dialog just create a blank animation sequence and drop effects on the models.
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Do you have the channel overlap check box checked? Overlaping channels can cause issues.
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RandyS - I didn't have the overlap box checked but I do now. Nothing seemed to change and I did not get any error messages.
Gilrock – Not sure what all you need to see but I am providing attachments for what I think may be relevant. I mentioned I have numerous, similar problems throughout the display but I want to focus on two problems to see if we can make any progress at all. Since I am still relatively a noobie, I hope my mistake is obvious.
First problem - The last 30 nodes on the fifth group of icicles (universe 56, nodes 130-160) do not light up. This is a little confusing in the layout because this group of icicles is the last group in Segment 3 which is composed of 4 total groups of icicles.. Segment 3 begins at Universe 53 as shown in the Layout pictures.
Second problem – More straightforward and totally confounding. The Upper Right Gable strip (Universe 90) does not light up at all (except in test mode when it works perfect).
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Can you also do a Tools -> Package Log Files and post the zip?
With that we can reproduce your show setup.
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Gilrock - Attached is the requested Log File.