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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: New problem. New controller doesn't get information from xlights.

« on: November 26, 2024, 11:31:51 AM »

i think i got it. Didn't know of the new way of doing controllers. i jump into this every year without knowing how things got changed.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / New problem. New controller doesn't get information from xlights.

« on: November 26, 2024, 11:17:32 AM »

I added a new controller to the my display this year and I can't seem to get it to talk to xlights. I pinged it so i can get out to it. the power is on. the new one is 192.1.168.180. attached network file. any help is appreciated im losing it.
thanks scott

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Sequence won't play on windows 10 machine

« on: November 26, 2024, 10:37:25 AM »

Thanks for response I had to get a new computer it would not update to 11 so figured it something weird with the hardware.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Sequence won't play on windows 10 machine

« on: November 23, 2024, 08:47:35 PM »

I can get the sequences to work on a windows11 but not a 10. I tried changing the directory to a more straight forward location. C:\ 2024 shows folder is where it is now, before c:\ user\ documents\ christmas shows. But the weird thing was i couldn't get the old setup to run either. It was left from last christmas and I tried to run a sequence with no changes whatsoever and it did the same thing. I opened sequence in the sequence tab opened a sequence pressed play it would display one model and stop. I thought maybe with updates to windows the old xlights couldn't deal with something. I Dled the latest and still the same thing.  Don't tell me I have to update to win11. please tell me I'm dumb and just forgot to do something.

Thank you for your help in advance.
Scott

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Unable to output lights to controller

« on: November 23, 2024, 06:51:35 PM »

Have you tried see if you can reach the controller? Run the ping command from the command prompt in windows to see if you can "reach" the controller. also remember you need to have a hub switch in between computer and controller, at least for the alpha pix. As for the other one, I'm not familiar with. I'm gonna guess it's the same tho.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / "t" does not create timing marks

« on: November 20, 2024, 06:22:07 PM »

Hello, so I'm updating songs. Try to add timing marks all I get is windows audio cue (ba'ling noise). I deleted key binding files, twice,to no avail. I made sure I was using small case "t". I tried making a new timing track. Nothing. But if I click in the music wave form it creates a start point red line. If i click on it again I get a timing mark. I'm pretty sure this isn't how it's suppose to work. thought you guys would want to know and also possibly help someone else who needs to get going on things and needs timing marks.

edit: What is done is mark starting point for music then press "t" then move cursor over line when double arrow cursor shows click and drag.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Xscheduler

« on: December 23, 2017, 02:58:23 PM »

Thanks keith for all your help. I found the error I had a discrepancy between my controller layout,setup and at the actual controller. Thank you once again and Merry Christmas!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Xscheduler

« on: December 23, 2017, 02:25:57 PM »

here are the layout and sequence settings

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Xscheduler

« on: December 23, 2017, 02:21:47 PM »

yes they are.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Xscheduler

« on: December 23, 2017, 01:58:19 PM »

Thanks to all that replied. Keith that worked. I updated to 44 deleted fseqs and remade them and that got rid of the errors in "check schedule". But I still have a problem with my  mega tree smearing the pics that last year displayed very nicely.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Xscheduler

« on: December 21, 2017, 03:34:31 PM »

Hello all I have been running my show for a couple of weeks and I have a couple of minor errors I'd like to clean up. First is the time error. THe scheduler will go off at the right time the first hour but the second and third hour it will be almost ten minutes ahead, but the last hour it will be on time. The second problem is the mega tree is not displaying the effects midly incorrectly. I assume from reading other post that this could be a Xscheduler induced problem. I have run the tool "check schedule" and it comes back with errors that say I have 2 twice as many channels that it should have something along the lines of "fseq has 22342 channels when 11342 where expected". I rerendered and saved all sequences in the scheduler. and that did not solve the problem then I deleted the fseq and backup files for the sequence and that came back after running the tool gain that I had only 2 extra channels on the sequences. Where is it coming up with these extra channels? included files are the check schedule tool log and the only file in the Xscheduledata folder. Any help clearing these up would be appericated. THANk you for your time.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Need help upgrading

« on: December 05, 2017, 11:48:33 AM »

John I just upgraded and had the same fears as you. What i did was I copied everything in my xlights folder over to a removable HD. This is a post from Sean.
 just copy your show directory.

example: my show directory is C:\Users\sean\Documents\xmas2014

if i go into there and copy everything to a usb flash drive, I then go to a new computer and copy the contents of the flash drive to
c:\newshow_xmas2014

i then launch xlights on the new computer and the first thing i do is set the directory with a "File,Set Show Folder" command to c:\newshow_xmas2014
it should come up and be an exact copy of what you had before.

everything that is a model is stored in your xlights_rgbeffects.xml files.
all the data in a grid is stored in the sequence xml files.
xseq files are the least important files you have as they can be recreated with the sequence xml and the sound file. If you lose the sequence xml then you have lost all the work you did setiing timing, putting in effects. None of that info is stored in an xseq file. xseq is a fully rendered, binary file that is used for playing the show.

follow the copy procedure above and you get all your pictures, sound files, movie files, xseq files and all xml files. In other words, eveything.
Actually I did this three times, twice to thumb drives once to another computer, I spent too much time on these songs to lose them.  I upgraded with no problems though, you probably will to.
good luck

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Matrix help

« on: December 04, 2017, 05:22:13 PM »

Keith that was the trick. I also delted the unused 4 outputs. Why does it not work when you have more channels than needed? does the register, bucket or ram location fill with he unused channel call outs? My mega tree worked with extra channels. Thanks again for the help.
 Sincerely
 Scott

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Matrix help

« on: December 04, 2017, 10:17:35 AM »

I have not tried other effects. The matrix is 12 lines 96 nodes long. Each line has it's own channel on a alphapix 16 controller. First post has a screen shot of controller web page with settings.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Matrix help

« on: December 03, 2017, 02:48:46 PM »

Correct Keith. So to be clear, on the computer screen it looks the way I want it to. On the actual matrix out on the roof it looks as though the text is pushed way to the top and it seems like I am only seeing the very bottom half of the text. I have tried moving the text with the offset option both with the offset pixel box checked and unchecked to no avail.