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The Water Cooler / Re: Candy Canes - the RGB pixel kind

« on: January 30, 2014, 06:57:02 PM »

I use Wal-Mart candy canes. I buy them after Christmas. I pull out the incans and replace them with 12 RGB nodes with a Water proof connector for the in and out. I space them two feet apart. I am using 40 of them at present. 10 per SSC.  I have another 40 or so that I have not yet converted. This year I was out of time so I programmed them as a group using the Horiz Matrix model.

Rick S

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My Show Setup / Re: Travailen Show Setup

« on: January 21, 2014, 09:54:01 PM »

Hi Bill,
I am going to try to add some additional information this weekend.

Rick S

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What new effects you would like to see / Re: Autogenerate effect Select

« on: January 18, 2014, 10:20:41 PM »

I guess I was thinking about something a little simpler. I was thinking I could just un protect locations I wanted the autogenerator to update. Then enable the effects I wanted to use for the update. Then autogenerate would update those locations using only the selected effects.

Rick S

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The Water Cooler / Re: Video Editor

« on: January 17, 2014, 08:55:43 PM »

Thanks for the suggestions. I hope to edit some video from this years show.

Rick S.

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The Water Cooler / Video Editor

« on: January 17, 2014, 09:27:31 AM »

Could anyone recommend a good free video editor.

Thanks,

Rick S

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What new effects you would like to see / Autogenerate effect Select

« on: January 16, 2014, 07:15:46 PM »

Not all effects work well on every model. For example, Snowflakes are not the best choice for a house eve model.
So, I would like to suggest an autogenerator enable/disable selector for each effect. That way, before I ran an autogenerate, I could enable only the effects that I wanted the autogenerator to use. Then when I ran the autogenerate function, only the effects I enabled would be applied to the sequence.

Thanks,

Rick S

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My Show Setup / Re: Sean Show Setup

« on: January 15, 2014, 12:03:30 PM »

Sean,
How did the arches work out for you>

Rick S

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My Show Setup / Re: Travailen Show Setup

« on: January 15, 2014, 11:57:51 AM »

Thanks Sean. We all like to see our ideas come to life and blink and flash.

I ran out of time so, to get the show up and running, I ran the Pi in bridge mode and drove it with the Toshiba laptop using xLights/Nutcracker. It ran flawlessly for the entire show schedule.

The plans are to have the Pi run the whole show this year.

Rick

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General hardware / Re: New Forum Categories

« on: January 14, 2014, 11:43:00 PM »

-6 What effects would you like to see added to xLights/Nutcracker
  A place to discuss possible new effects that could be added to xlights/Nutcracker.

7- What features would you like to see added to xLights/Nutracker
  A place to discuss the addition or modification of features for the xLights/Nutcracker program.

Rick S

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My Show Setup / Travailen Show Setup

« on: January 14, 2014, 10:54:10 PM »

I am using only Nutcracker/Xlights for all sequencing.
Total show channels  25,835
Total RGB Channels   25,675
Total DMX channels   160

1ea  Toshiba 17" laptop (Used to test, schedule and run the show)
1ea EDM Transmitter
1ea Behringer Sonic Exciter SH3040 (Used to brighten the audio)
1ea  1250W UPS
1ea  Falcon Pi Player  (Ran it in bridge mode this year)
1ea  Falcon Pixelnet/DMX Board (Programmed for 8 E31.1 universes and 1 DMX Universe)
8ea  Enclosures - Each consisting of a power supply, a DLA hub and up to 16ea V3 DLA SSCs. (84 SSCs used this year)  ** Information on these will be added later
10ea DLA Lynx Expresses (All are wireless)


1ea  14ft Mega Tree with 31 strings of 120 node flexstrips in a 270 degree layout  ** How I built it will be added later
11ea Arches each with two 90 node opposet facing flex strips. ** How I built them will be added later
40ea Walmart candy canes re done with 12 RGB nodes each. ** How I built them will be added later
4ea Fans of 126 nodes each.  ** How I built them will be added later
14ea Eve tubes of various flex strip node quantities for a total of 1360 nodes
12ea 32 inch mini trees with 50 nodes each  ** How I built them will be added later


6ea Lynx expresses run candy canes, house lights and various stuff in the neighbors yard
4ea Lynx Expresses run a manger scene and various incan lights and trees in my yard.

More updates soon

Rick S