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Falcon Pi Player / Re: FPP lags and/or missing elements?

« on: November 02, 2021, 09:30:30 AM »

That I will do!
ty for taking the time Gilrock
I'll post the answer here once its resolved as well.

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: FPP lags and/or missing elements?

« on: November 01, 2021, 06:16:34 PM »

So my sequence timing is 25ms.
I looked up some of the specific effect timings that were not showing up and they averaged about 520ms.
And to clarify, sometimes the effect showed up and the next effect did not, sometimes the effect did not show up at all, and sometimes the effect showed up late.

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: FPP lags and/or missing elements?

« on: November 01, 2021, 11:55:53 AM »

Are you asking in the setup for the fps or would you be asking me the duration of the element that is supposed to show?
I just wanted to say Gilrock as I've been combing through a lot of posts on this forum (slow days at work...lol) and find that the amount of help you give out is nothing short of impressive.  I truely appreciate all the hard work that you and others do daily to help us noobs with more times than not dumb questions. 
Whatever your reply is here Ill check out later today.....at work combing through the forums...lol
Thanks again!

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Falcon Pi Player / FPP lags and/or missing elements?

« on: November 01, 2021, 10:38:36 AM »

After an epic Halloween night I noticed a couple things particularly in faster paced sequences that there are elements that either have lagged in lighting or didnt light at all.
I did recheck the sequences that i hadnt errored in xlights re/rendered and uploaded without any changes to the final output.
I am running FPP on a Pi 3B+(fully updated)  to a falcon F16V3 outputing to approx 1000 lights.
Do i need a faster processor?  Is there some "maintenance" that needs to be done?
I have rebooted the Pi prior to any show start as well.
Any thoughts on this?  Christmas is right around the corner!
Thanks in advance!

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Step by step help needed

« on: October 28, 2021, 10:27:44 AM »

Might be hard for someone to give a step by step when peoples set up can vary.  Perhaps someone close by could help?  I would assume sequences have already been completed so it may be as easy as scheduling....I am no expert by any means but I have learned here that there are many people willing to help.

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Nutcracker Effects / Re: Shader download

« on: October 26, 2021, 03:48:26 PM »

In the log I get this
"Shader file download failed and returned a non fs file."
And that is for the majority of them
When I go to the website I download a zip file which contains a .fs and .vs files
I am guessing the long way around is how we have to go

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Nutcracker Effects / Shader download

« on: October 23, 2021, 04:02:00 PM »

I am new to using the shader effect.
I've looked up a number of videos about it and all seem to show the shader effect, pick one from the list and hit download and it automatically is there.
I hit download and nothing....do I have to point to it somewhere?  it doesn't seem to have actually downloaded anywhere when I search my drives....
Checked and I have updated to the latest, also tried to look up past posts and haven't found any that pertain to this....not sure where to go from here.
I am sure its something very simple.....

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: Storage Devices Not Mounted? And other odd FPP Things

« on: June 24, 2019, 05:43:06 PM »

I've attached a pic of what I am looking at.......
I have formatted with SD Card formatter, overwriting it everytime at least 3 times now.....
The uSD has been partitioned by FPP
The USB drive is FAT 32 formatted as well.
The PI has been updated to the latest and greatest as far as I can tell.
All it does is show both the partition and the external USB as Not Mounted
I am up and running again.......but my storage space is at an all time low as you can see!  lol

And as usual....thanks all that have looked at this and taken time to respond!

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Falcon Pi Player / Storage Devices Not Mounted? And other odd FPP Things

« on: June 23, 2019, 06:23:35 PM »

So I have recently updated my Pi  FPP to 2.7.1.....I am trying to upload my sequences.  It goes through the motions but does not show on my list. 
I looked at the external storage devices and both my boot disk and my usb drive show but show as not mounted.
Would this be why I am not getting my sequences uploaded?
Is there a way to fix that?
I have rebooted and restarted multiple times......

Ill also add that the scheduler is being odd.....I click add and then any schedule that was set disappears.....
Likely because its not reading the drives??

So I have wiped out the boot drive and started fresh......3 things:
1. The USB thumb drive shows up as 3.8GB (Not Mounted)(USB)
2. The boot drive shows up as 2.9GB (0.7GB Free) Even thought its a 32GB card
3.I cant restore my backup from backup files??  I select....screen blinks and nothing happens!

Just odd things that I am not sure why are happening

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The Water Cooler / Re: Mega Tree Problem

« on: November 28, 2018, 05:32:39 PM »

Gilrock, Centauri, Allknowing, deplanche,
Thank you guys for taking the time to read and reply to my post.
Xlights 1 string/2 strands did the trick.
Its always the easiest thing that you look over.
Thanks again....my medium tree is up n running and looks amazing!

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The Water Cooler / Re: Mega Tree Problem

« on: November 28, 2018, 12:01:47 PM »

so the F16V3 only has forward/reverse in the string ports

I can see the node layout and all channels start from the bottom going up instead of the zigzag pattern (up and down)

Can seem to be able to modify/edit how the strings are positioned on the tree

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The Water Cooler / Mega Tree Problem

« on: November 27, 2018, 05:36:59 PM »

Small issue and likely just something I am missing in the xlights software.
My Tree Setup:

6 strings on 12 strands

channel 1-50 run up 51-101 run down 102-152 up 153-203 down etc. etc.

when running a sequence every 2nd string is running upside down because of the way I have it set up...

Is there a simple fix that I am missing in the tree model?

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: scheduler issue.

« on: November 27, 2017, 09:39:59 AM »

I was having a similar issue and found that when I saved it it didn't render certain elements fully.  I went back into the sequence checked that element resaved and reloaded it into my Pi.

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The Water Cooler / Re: Effect Question

« on: November 05, 2017, 06:02:43 PM »

Well isn't that cool!  Thanks!

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The Water Cooler / Effect Question

« on: November 05, 2017, 02:16:25 PM »

New to sequencing and was wondering....my set up is really multiple single strands on the roof peaks etc.  I was looking at some of Lilia's sequencing and noticed that the single strands seems to be working together with the objects such as the mega tree to form say a pinwheel or snow or a ripple effect across entire house.....how is this done?  Can anyone point me to a tutorial ?