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My Show Setup / Re: Anybody using these addressable RGB Ring lights assemblies?

« on: April 20, 2016, 06:36:04 PM »

Adafruit has something very similar if not identical. Search their site for NeoPixel Ring. I have several of Adafruits NeoPixel products and they work as WS2812, although I have not specifically gotten around to testing the rings themselves.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: April 16, 2016, 06:16:06 PM »

I created a matrix in xLights 1 universe in size and the candles using the same universe. I assigned the candles about half way up (channel 250 or so). When I want to have the fire effect, I out the fire effect on the matrix and since the candle use the same channels the fire effect will flow down to the candles as well. Doing this allowed me to position the candle higher up in the fire effect as opposed to the bottom of the fire effect.

The matrix is hidden because it only exists in xLights for this purpose there is not an physical display element other than the candles.

What are the size parameters for the matrix?  I understand the overlay concept just want to get my channel 250 about the same place as yours within the matrix. Thanks.

For convenience I iust used 32x16, the same as a P10 matrix.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: April 03, 2016, 11:58:29 AM »

I created a matrix in xLights 1 universe in size and the candles using the same universe. I assigned the candles about half way up (channel 250 or so). When I want to have the fire effect, I out the fire effect on the matrix and since the candle use the same channels the fire effect will flow down to the candles as well. Doing this allowed me to position the candle higher up in the fire effect as opposed to the bottom of the fire effect.

The matrix is hidden because it only exists in xLights for this purpose there is not an physical display element other than the candles.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: March 23, 2016, 08:29:40 PM »

Using a hidden matrix solved the issue with the fire effect on the single pixels. Here's how it looks live on the candles (not the best video), the fire effect is first in the video.

https://vimeo.com/160185832

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: March 23, 2016, 09:08:02 AM »

Hue Shift doesn't gets me into more blues.

Guess I didn't know what you meant.  That statement sounded like you wanted to get into more blues.

Sorry about that, missing a word or two there. Should have read "hue shift doesn't do it, it gets me into more blues".

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: March 23, 2016, 07:50:48 AM »

The only thing I found that affects color is the hue shift and that shifts you from the reds into the greens or blues (in my mind shifting left to right in the spectrum). I want to shift from lighter yellows into the darker orange/reds (in my mind shifting up and down in the spectrum).

I was thinking about this and I might put in a 1-universe matrix with the fire effect on it and then have the candles configured with overlapping channels in the same universe. I can then place the candle pixels within the desired area of the fire effect by shifting its channel number.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Fire effect on Single Pixel

« on: March 22, 2016, 08:17:02 PM »

I'm putting the Fire effect onto a single pixel elements (a set of window candles in this case). The problem is the single pixel ends up in the more yellowish part of the effect and I would like it to be in the more orange/reddish part. The flicker is good, just need to dial in the color. Hue Shift doesn't gets me into more blues.

Any suggestions?

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Latest xLights/Nutcracker software / Re: xLights 2016.10 released, new Video effect and built in FFMPEG libraries

« on: March 04, 2016, 06:28:06 PM »

I went to download the Mac version and there are now two versions, -wx31 and the normal version. What's the difference between the two versions?

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Layout with XL ver 2016.7

« on: February 09, 2016, 02:30:08 PM »

I'll have to look into a batch file with appropriate registry entries.  Thanks!

If you do go the batch/registry file route I would actually only export the LastDir and MediaDir values. There are other values in there that look like they could be updated by the software itself at runtime and you will overwrite those every time you apply the "old" registry.

Instead of messing with the registry, you could just use hard links [mklink /J] (Windows) or sym links  [ln -s] (Mac/Linux) from your configured show dir to your actual show dir. The batch/script file would only need to update the link to point to the right place.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Playing video to projector while controlling syncronized RGB pizels

« on: January 14, 2016, 08:59:23 AM »

You should recheck your information about the Pi's. The Pi's should be able to handle 1080p without any issue.