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Free Sequences / Re: Talking Trees sequences causing upset.

« on: December 07, 2020, 06:40:14 PM »

sorry to hear you are being hassled, all i can say is your sequences are what keeps me going to try and get as good, after 7 years still along way off, Star wars is still a fan favourite, so thaks from me to you and all the best for 2021.cheers Boof63

Cheers Boof63. Have great Christmas and an even better 2021 (I think we will all be pleased to see the back of 2020).

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Free Sequences / Talking Trees sequences causing upset.

« on: December 06, 2020, 12:47:02 AM »

About 5+ years ago the talking trees sound tracks were shared to me from someone who assured me they had been freely shared on the DIY Christmas site and this was confirmed to me by more than one person. There was also a Youtube video of someone else who was including them in their show from back in 2013 which seemed to fit with what I was told. However, no-one knew exactly who made them. When I shared my sequences of the trees talking, I made it clear that I had only done the sequencing and had not written the skits or done the voices.
Four years after I did my Trolls sequence and posted it on Youtube with a couple of the talking trees sequences, someone has just now come forward to claim credit for the voice tracks which I can see on DIY Christmas site but unfortunately I cannot respond as I have not been active there for so many years and seem to have lost that privilege. It was never my intention and I never did claim credit for the sound tracks just as I never claim credit for any of the sound tracks in the sequences I have done and certainly did not want to give the impression that I was claiming credit. And I certainly did not want to upset anybody with these sequences but I was unable to name the makers of the skits as no -one could tell me who they were. My only intention was to bring some joy at Christmas time and not benefit from the sequences I made in any way. I guess it is therefore probably fitting  that I stopped doing Christmas displays two years ago.   I have enjoyed my time immensely doing a christmas display and have enjoyed being part of this christmas light community and learned heaps from many extremely helpful members. But the display was just getting too much work for me to do alone and was taking a lot of time away from the family. I am disappointed that I have ultimately ended up unintentionally upsetting some people and giving the wrong impression about the sequences I have shared.  My sequences of the trees should probably be removed from the xlights google drive. 

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My Show Setup / Re: NOTW Lights Show Setup

« on: November 21, 2018, 03:07:02 PM »

Looks great. Love the up and down movements of the lights - fits nicely with the swells of voice in the song. Great job.

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Enhancement Requests / Re: Paste command

« on: November 07, 2018, 02:03:33 PM »

You have the option to paste by time or paste by cell so if you are copying a longer effect into a shorter gap, just use paste by cell.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Xlights 2018.41 mac edition

« on: November 06, 2018, 01:04:27 PM »

Yep that fixed it. Just downloaded .42 onto the macbook and it loaded up fine.
Thanks

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Xlights 2018.41 mac edition

« on: November 06, 2018, 02:02:17 AM »

Ok, I couldn't find where the log files are stored on the mac. All I could do was go back to 2018.40 and package a log file from there but I'm not sure if that will contain any info from 2018.41 not starting. Anyway, heres what I could find as far as a log file is concerned.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Xlights 2018.41 mac edition

« on: November 05, 2018, 01:53:14 PM »

Ok, sorry about that. Didn't realise there would be log files if the program didn't launch. Ill try it again tonight and get some log files.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Xlights 2018.41 mac edition

« on: November 05, 2018, 01:22:29 AM »

Just downloaded and installed 2018.41 Mac version and the program won't start. Rebooted the computer but no improvement. Gets stuck on the XLights logo and won't progress. Just rolled back to 2018.40 and all working fine.
 XSchedule 2018.41 loaded fine however.
I am running MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and haven't updated to Moavi yet.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working

« on: September 14, 2018, 05:54:36 PM »

ok cancel that. Fixed from Keith's solution in another post. 

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Keyboard shortcuts not working

« on: September 14, 2018, 05:51:56 PM »

ok, just saw an earlier post for .31 so will try that solution now

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Keyboard shortcuts not working

« on: September 14, 2018, 05:51:00 PM »

Ok so I guess this is probably something I've done wrong but since I upgraded to 2018.33 mac version, I can't get the keyboard shortcuts to work. I can use ctrC and ctrV for copy paste but none of the xlights related shortcuts are working. No response from t for timing mark, o for on, u for ramp up etc.
Anything I can do to get these working?What have I done wrong here.
Cheers
Logan

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Xlights Setup / Re: Any Macbook Pro users can help me??

« on: March 02, 2018, 04:01:28 PM »

There is in settings.


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Xlights Setup / Re: Any Macbook Pro users can help me??

« on: March 01, 2018, 06:50:52 PM »

Keith, is there some setting in xlights to change to allow it to force output through the right network port (i.e ethernet vs wifi) because mine definitely has to have the wifi turned off before I get lights. Can't even get to a controller's webpage unless wifi is off (or is this maybe just a mac thing).

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Xlights Setup / Re: Any Macbook Pro users can help me??

« on: March 01, 2018, 05:43:29 PM »

This may not necessarily be your issue but I use a macbook pro with no ethernet port and use the adapter.
My home network is on 192.168.1.x and my Christmas light controllers are all on 192.168.2.x and each one has a fixed IP address and everything communicates nicely.
However, I have noticed that if I have my laptop wifi on and connected to my home network and my ethernet port is connected to the controllers, with the wifi still on I can't communicate with the controllers. As soon as I turn the macbook pro wifi off, it all connects to the controllers happily.
I still get a green light symbol next to the ethernet in the network preferences when the wifi is also on as if it's connected fine, but won't actually be able to access the controllers until the wifi on the macbook pro is turned off.

I will have to check tonight with my older mackbook pro that has an actual ethernet port to see if it can talk to the controllers even if the laptops wifi is on or not.
Anyway, just a thought.

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My Show Setup / Re: 2D Pixel Tree examples

« on: June 29, 2017, 05:33:00 PM »

KemKol,
That's really unfortunate that you've had so much trouble with the strip. Would be very frustrating.
My 2D tree (12 x50) has strip in silicon sleeve but not silicon filled and it has gone 4 years so far without needing to replace any strips (ok well if I was being honest one strip has a pixel (set of three leds) doing funny colours).
But no other significant failures. Was the strip fro Ray Wu?