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Xlights Setup / Re: RGB Tree's/ Controller/Setup/Element off

« on: December 04, 2023, 11:13:35 AM »

Gillrock
Thank you so much for the help I figured my report could wait.
I did just as you suggested uploaded to each of the controllers their respective outputs.   brought up the sequence we first tried. rendered it and tested with everything back to normal.

So got brave and rendered a second sequence again perfect. So 2 for 2

So now while doing reports I will render all the sequences.

Thanks, again for you time and help it is greatly appreciated and I know tonight when our grandkids.
come over they will appreciate them running to the music.

Hoping everyone has a blessed holiday season be safe.

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Xlights Setup / Re: RGB Tree's/ Controller/Setup/Element off

« on: December 04, 2023, 09:25:51 AM »

Thanks for the advice once i finish this report for work, I will look into it more closely.

I definitely have changed something to throw it off.

Thanks again

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Xlights Setup / Re: RGB Tree's/ Controller/Setup/Element off

« on: December 04, 2023, 06:48:05 AM »

Thanks
We do only have it set up to zag in the controller.
But now ran into a problem we have not had.

All of our elements have been the same for 2 years now and ran great past 2 years.
Finally, after getting everything connected yesterday, we went to test things and just operating the controllers through Xlights test or directly running individually everything is fine all the lights operate fine.

Issue came up playing a sequence all of the elements seem to be shifted to the right. For example, our matrixs are 16 strands running 40 pixels high and set to zig zag every 40 in the controller same as always. When we play a sequence looking at the left side the first 5 strings do not light up the effect is shifted to the right on both matrixs.

We then noticed on our house outline the left side of the house does not light up.

So, we tried updating xlights, even uninstalled and reinstalled then rendering with no success, so then I brought out an older laptop and ran the same sequence through it same thing keeps happening. So, thinking I have a corrupted file I need to delete??

Denis

Ive gone to an older backup file trying to see if it would help but still shifted.

Dennis

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Xlights Setup / Re: RGB Tree's/ Controller/Setup/Element off

« on: December 01, 2023, 07:03:32 PM »

Thanks for the reply
Yes sir we did
Tomorrow we will hopefully be turning things on when I get off work
if we run again without the Sequence it will be OK just a challenge to
get it to work. It ran when we were 16 stands at 50.

Happy Holidays
Dennis

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Xlights Setup / RGB Tree's/ Controller/Setup/Element off

« on: November 30, 2023, 06:42:11 PM »

So 2021 we had  2 RGB Trees 180 degree with 16 strings 50 pixels each string. Last year we added an additional 16 strings to each tree to get more definition and had them setup in xlights as 16 strings of 100 pixels 2 strands. Things seemed to run ok last last year except Logans Tree Sequences.....Eyes and mouth are significantly off so I left them out. 2023 my wife asked if I could get them to run this year.

Our Controllers are Sandevice E682 both running V5 but seeing things not right switched to V 4 but see no change. Each port is 100 pixels with a zig/zag at 50

I also Tried in xlights assigning the strands individually by start channel but tonight they did the same thing.

The controller we set it up as 100 pixel strands with each set to zig/zag at 50.

The mouth and eyes are off when playing it back live watching outside
the house display in Xlights they look perfect.

We also had them set up in Rendered mode showing the outline not using the Green/Yellow/ Red/ blue tree as the other option and it really looks off in the rendered mode out at the tree.

I just tried to make a new sequence and import effects but that didn't change.... things are still off

So question what am I missing. Any suggestions.

Happy Holidays
Dennis

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Scheduler Does Not Have DMX Channels

« on: December 10, 2020, 09:59:18 AM »

Read some old posts and tried loading an older version of xlights and used the scheduler from that and it works fine now.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Scheduler Does Not Have DMX Channels

« on: December 09, 2020, 04:50:29 PM »

We are switching to a dedicated laptop for our lights and have everything working through the sequencer
Problem opening the scheduler all our E131 boxes are there and green but no DMX channels
Are we missing something

Our DMX channels run off Universe 1 / 510 channels

Not a huge issue as we still can run off the laptop we were using but I have tried a few things and nothing I do has worked so looking for some help  THANKS

Dennis

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Xlights Setup / Re: XSchedule does not play my sequence correctly

« on: December 07, 2019, 06:10:32 AM »

We upgraded to a newer version but also started using a different laptop that I just had replaced for work
and things are running good. Pretty sure it was just upgrading to the newer version.

Happy Safe Holidays to Everyone

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Xlights Setup / Re: XSchedule does not play my sequence correctly

« on: December 05, 2019, 09:48:19 PM »

I did render and save 3-4 times on the few with issues and same issue continues  they all work perfectly through the sequencer just when running them in the scheduler. I will also upgrade to a later version in am.
Once things end tonight I'll look at the time stamp. I am game for anything except sitting down in the garage and running them individually

Thanks for the help
Happy Holidays

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Xlights Setup / Re: XSchedule does not play my sequence correctly

« on: December 05, 2019, 06:14:39 PM »

I seem to have a problem with a few sequences not playing properly through the scheduler certain timings are not playing at all. I only noticed because I went out to watch them play and saw the missing parts.
I can run each sequence individually through xlights sequencer with no problem. I double checked to be sure the show folder is listed correctly in the sequencer and it is we are running ver 58.
I know its me but any help is appreciated nobody notices the songs are missing anything but its puzzeling.

Happy Holidays


Dennis

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Xlights Setup / Re: How to setup the SETUP

« on: November 13, 2017, 04:19:00 PM »

We changed our controllers configuration based on some videos we re-watched and read more posts
Then modified xlight setup changing a few things as advised and things seem to be OK all three controllers are working as well as dmx controllers so now we will put up the lights and test

Thanks
Happy Holidays

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Xlights Setup / Re: How to setup the SETUP

« on: November 11, 2017, 08:51:15 AM »

I apologize there was operator error getting a screen shot posted
hoping the attached work and we are doing our setup correctly??

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Xlights Setup / Re: How to setup the SETUP

« on: November 10, 2017, 09:55:46 PM »

Arch's are E6804

Problem was last year we only ran one E682 with the rest on 10-LOR controllers

I got things to work not sure we did things right but here is what I did

Accessed the controllers and assigned the universe to match outputs on each terminal group on the controller so that is is the same as the Xlights  setup/layout called for

so our first pixel tree took universes 2-7 we made the controller outputs match that.So outputs 1-1 thru 1-4  assigned universe 2
2-1 thru 2-4 are universe 3   etc

We did this for both E682's and the 1 - E6804

We then added one at a time into setup on xlights and tested to be sure it worked once we had all three added into xlights we changed our models in layout to make sure things matched. 

I needed to render the sequence and then tested to find everything worked.

Does that sound right

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Xlights Setup / Re: How to setup the SETUP

« on: November 10, 2017, 05:31:51 PM »

No problem Ill try when I get back tonight for sure over weekend

What I did try just a few minutes ago was to go into the E682 controller page and reconfigured the outputs to match the universes defined in the the xlight setup page when defining the E131 and IP of the controller....

Now we can test all three thru x lights test mode no issues

So thought almost time to celebrate and tried a sequence 2 of the three controllers worked perfect the one controlling my arch's did not go on

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Xlights Setup / Re: How to setup the SETUP

« on: November 10, 2017, 01:12:34 PM »

Cant upload image
We have our laptop connected to a netgear 8 port gigabit switch
Then the three E682 controllers plug into it (thought the switch might be the issue we used another switch with same problem) Thought maybe laptop had a problem so we put xlights on another laptop tried setup and same results I can get the first E.131 to run but not the others. 

Does not matter which E682 we list is first it will work the other two will not

Listed First is
Our DMX using USB through Holidaycoro actidongle comm 11DMX set to use channels 1-512

After the DMX:

Frist E1.31 set up Unicast 192.168.1.30     starts univ 2 thru 7   start channel 513 -3584
Second E1.31       Unicast  192.168.1.40     starts Univ 8-13       start channel 3585- 6656
Third E1.31          Unicast   192.168.1.50     starts  Univ 14-17    start channel 6657-8704

all are set yes on active

May try switching them all over to run in  multicast and see if we cant get them to run just seems odd