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Board Announcements / Re: WE ARE BACK!

« on: July 26, 2023, 06:01:54 PM »

I too am glad the forum is back as I don?t do the Facebook stuff.
 
Thanks,
Greg

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Changing File Location of timings iseq file

« on: November 02, 2020, 04:46:58 PM »

Probably never change legacy AC channels in the sequences created in LSP. I'm guessing it is ok to change DMX channels numbers if needed. If that is what you mean by channel offset. I don't use a lot of the advance features yet anyway. So, not sure about channel offsets meaning.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Changing File Location of timings iseq file

« on: October 30, 2020, 04:42:07 PM »

Gil,

I answered my own question by going thru the sequences. It Matters! I need to have those data layer files.
Looking at House preview did the trick.

Thanks a Million,

Greg

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Changing File Location of timings iseq file

« on: October 30, 2020, 03:40:31 PM »

Gil,

I got it. Just in case it referenced 3072 channels I expect that was from my original conversion from LSP to Xlights. I added the new D:\ drive location the file and deleted the old reference to C:\ drive. What is curious for me is that file really needed or do those channels exist in the new xlights file .xsq?

Since I can't see the original effects that were converted from LSP then I am not sure if I can get rid of the data layer file or not without extensive testing of old AC Channels and some RGB stuff.

Can you shed any light on my concern?

BTW Your suggestion on the data layer is exactly what I needed for now to get past the hurdle to relocate that file just in case.

Thank you,

Greg

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Changing File Location of timings iseq file

« on: October 30, 2020, 05:27:33 AM »

The weird thing about this is this appears to be a lost reference as is is not the sequence file name caralofthebells4S.xsq and is located in a completely different location. I can't render r can I save the xsq file without the warning box popping. The reason I thought this was related to the timing was the name of the timing.

This is the latest and only version of Xlights on the new PC.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Changing File Location of timings iseq file

« on: October 29, 2020, 05:23:27 PM »

I have a new PC (in a panic due to my old PC dying) with SSD and have changed the file location to Standard HD n D:\ The old file were located on C:\ drive. My timing marks were derived from old LightShow Pro .msq files. Even though the timing tracs are showing in the sequence. I am getting an error when rendering.

Unable to load sequence
C:\Lightnimation\Xlights_Nutcracker\Show\carolofthebells.iseq

Can this path be changed somewhere? I don want to place the files on the SSD.

Thanks,

Greg

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: Explain this FPP to me in simple words

« on: November 09, 2017, 05:09:27 PM »

I would say connect the switch to the router and then connect the Pi and the F16 to the switch. As far as the config and how the PI talks to the F16, I am not sure since I don't have an F16. However, I would think that the PI needs the channels setup for the F16 to receive the data. Maybe someone with that setup can help to get you going. Once you have that part configured and working then adding a wireless dongle to the PI then that should be a no brainer. I noticed on another post that there is a known wireless dongle that will work with the PI. Once you have a wireless dongle then you can disconnect the PI from the switch. I would assume at that point the router will connect to the PI wirelessly.

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: Explain this FPP to me in simple words

« on: November 05, 2017, 06:50:24 AM »

I like to ask why you are not using the FPP scheduler to run your show? Why do you need a clock for the PI? I also noticed you mention Putty. This is confusing to me as I use the FPP Webpage front end on the PI. Since I don't have a F16V3 then maybe I am missing something.

Here is your Simple!
Load the FPP OS on the PI SD Card using your PC, Plug it into the PI, plug in a usb stick to your PI, plug in the network cable from your router, power it on, open a webpage http://fpp, load your xlight sequences from your PC on it to the flash drive plugged in the PI using the web frontend, plug your F16V3 int the network, setup your channels on the PI, setup a schedule on the FPP. Test your channel config, sequences. You can also upload your sequences using xlights. This will take you to http://fpp or http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (ip address of the PI). Finally, make sure to use static IP addresses on your show equipment not dhcp from the router.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 13, 2017, 12:17:54 PM »

It's not just LOR. I am using DLA USBD.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 13, 2017, 11:22:09 AM »

With the latest ver. 2017.13 yes. With 2017.12 crash every time.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 13, 2017, 07:36:33 AM »

Searched the entire HD and only crash files are from older versions a year or more ago. Not the same crash issues either. Sorry no crash logs were generated by xlights due to the "Blue Screen of Death Crash". I suspect no time for Xlights to gen them. Let me know anything else I can do to help.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 12, 2017, 04:46:39 PM »

Well I spoke too soon. I left the xlights program running on my PC the last couple of days idol and then resumed testing various effects in the sequencer to observe my rgb test light string. There seems to be a lag in the sequencer while changing an effect and while the output is on. It seems the DMX output to the dongle is laging the change made to an effect by literally seconds. So I decided to stop the output and see how long it took for the test lights to go off. Boom it crashed the PC. I have seen this lagging behavior before but didn't think too much about it while playing a sequence with the output on. Now, I think these two observations could be related to the crash.  I hope this is useful info to determine the exact cause.

Possibly this is a memory leak because after restarting the PC and restarting the program everything seems fine doing the same tests.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 11, 2017, 03:49:26 PM »

2017.13 did the trick. Tested and no crash!

Thank You

Greg

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Test Lights Window 10 Blue Screen Crash

« on: May 07, 2017, 05:46:51 PM »

I am getting a Windows Blue Screen Crash when unchecking the output to lights in Test Lights. I believe this is related to another post I saw on a LOR Dongle with the same issue. However, it appears not to be isolated to LOR as I am using a Lynx USB Dongle (FTDI Version 2.12.26.0). This is a very repeatable crash. I also was able to duplicate from the Sequencer Output.  I am at Xlights Version 2017.12 64 bit.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Matrix Effect Custom Drawing Pallet

« on: November 20, 2016, 11:57:14 AM »

Ok, you got me. I knew that I had seen something like that before, but for the life of me I could not find it. After watching the first part of the video I tried the effect assist. Could not locate it on the screen, but he screen kept jumping. I finally realized that it was a window size issue and it was coming up just as the "X" and that was why the screen jumped when turning it on and off.

Yes, I have messed with this feature before and cold not remember. That is what happens as you get older......

Thank You!