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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 02:52:20 PM »

Ok I am glad it wasn't on my end because I thought I messed up my xLights somehow. In the meantime is there anyway to get a wiring diagram for the snowflakes or the 3 ring arches from boscoyo or do I just need to wait until there is an update or patch released? Thank you for your quick responses and your help!

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 02:31:35 PM »

There was a lot more at the top it was really long, I can post the whole thing if you want me or if you need it but that part I posted was about the vendors.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 02:29:17 PM »

2020-09-24 16:19:31,217 62548 log_opengl [INFO] Layout - glVer:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 443.18  (Quadro M1200/PCIe/SSE2)(NVIDIA Corporation)
2020-09-24 16:19:31,217 62548 log_opengl [INFO] Try creating 3.3 Cache for Layout
2020-09-24 16:19:32,930 62548 log_base [DEBUG] Current Version: '2020.39'. Latest Available '2020.39'. Skip Version ''.
2020-09-24 16:19:34,736 62548 log_base [DEBUG] RecalcStartChannels takes 0ms.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG] Loading File Cache C:\Users\byard\AppData\Local\Temp/xLightsCache.xml.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG]    Cache opened.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG]    0 items loaded.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG] File Cache purging aged items.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG] File cache size: 0
2020-09-24 16:19:35,524 62548 log_base [DEBUG] File Cache downloading file http://nutcracker123.com/xlights/vendors/xlights_vendors.xml.
2020-09-24 16:19:35,525 62548 log_base [DEBUG] Making request to 'http://nutcracker123.com/xlights/vendors/xlights_vendors.xml' -> C:\Users\byard\AppData\Local\Temp\xl1E67.xml.
2020-09-24 16:19:36,203 62548 log_base [ERROR] DisplayError: Unable to retrieve any vendor information
2020-09-24 16:19:37,276 62548 log_base [DEBUG] Saving File Cache C:\Users\byard\AppData\Local\Temp/xLightsCache.xml.
2020-09-24 16:19:37,277 62548 log_base [DEBUG]     File Cache 0 items saved.
2020-09-24 16:19:37,282 62548 log_base [DEBUG] Models loaded in 0ms
2020-09-24 16:19:37,296 62548 log_base [DEBUG] RecalcStartChannels takes 0ms.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 02:15:54 PM »

Where do I pull the logs from? I can do it from my work laptop as it probably won't much information on it as i just installed it on there 5 minutes ago.

Also I don't know if this helps or not. I just installed xLights on my work laptop that has never had xLights installed on it so it has no data as far as layout or controllers or anything. I tried to "Create New Download" on a blank layout and I received the same error message on that computer as well with version 2020.39.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 01:06:07 PM »

Maybe try the tools menu and purge the download cache

Ok, I clicked on the Purge Download Cache under the Tools menu. It doesn't look like any thing happens, there are no dialog boxes or anything. So I go back and try to add the prop after clicking the 'Purge Download Cache' and I get the same error message as before.

Also I just tried to go back to 2020.37 which was the last version I was using and now I get the same error message when trying to "create new download" in that version. So then I upgraded back up to 2020.39 and still the same thing. I tried the 'Purge Download Cache' under Tools for both versions as well.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Error when trying to Create New Download props

« on: September 24, 2020, 12:47:52 PM »

My Boscoyo Ice Queen snowflakes & 3 ring arches just arrived yesterday and when I go to add them using the Create New Download button and draw a square for the object I get an Error Message that says "Unable to retrieve any vendor information". There is a box behind it that says downloading models but it never brings up the option pick from the vendors like it did before because the Error box pops up over the top of it.

I was able to do this last week before I upgraded to version 2020.39 because I was messing around with that icon to see if I could add them & the 3 ring arches I was going to purchase before I bought them. I was able to add both but didn't save them on my layout. Well they came in yesterday and I was going to start to add them into my display and this error message pops up every time I try to use the 'Create New Download' icon. I reinstalled version 2020.39 and the same error message pops up every time.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Building House Outline in XLights

« on: January 22, 2018, 11:11:43 AM »

Ok, I hope this is the right place to post this, if not I am sorry! But here it goes. So I am a complete Noob with this XLights, controllers, pixels, ect. but I decided in Dec. 2017 after watching the show on ABC, and some YouTube videos of houses that where done with sequencing (ESPixelStick creator - Candlewick) his youtube videos I was like I WANT to do that, and so does my family. So I have been playing with Xlights for about 1 to 1.5 months now, can control & sequence 2 strands of strings (only things I have bought) want to make sure I could before I invest largely into it. Now I know I can, I'm all in I measured my entire house yesterday for all my calculations. 15 - 16 strands of 50 C9 pixels to do the complete outline for this year.

So my question is what is the best way to line the house, windows, and garage doors. Is the best way to do this is just draw single strand lines with the set number of pixels per line? For example if I have a window that has 8 pixels on the vertical portion of the windows and 7 pixels on the horizontal portion of the windows (6" spacing between pixels). Do I just do 4 single strands around the window and have the next strand start where the 1 before it ended? If this is not the best or most efficient way what would be a better solution to do an entire front of the house outline?

Also if that is the best way to do windows, just doing an outline of everything I will just have a large number of single strands to sequence