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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Paid Sequence not importing Correctly

« on: July 28, 2021, 02:25:05 PM »

I bought a sequence from Magical Light Shows- Take On Me.  I followed the import tutorial on the site and all of my groups and props are in the same order as Tom's.  The sequence plays fine, however, for the entire sequence the pixels are all white and never turn to the full color patterns they are supposed to.  I emailed MLS, and the response was to make sure the props were in the correct order since xLights renders from the top down.  Although, my props are in the correct order, would that really affect the color of the pixels for an effect?  Is there anything else I can check to see why the correct colors do not import?  FYI- I checked each effect and white is the only color checked, so the effect is not importing like it should, or I'm doing something wrong.

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Falcon Pi Player / Re: Effects won't play from FPP

« on: December 17, 2020, 03:31:06 PM »

Trying to get into Zoom room but it keeps asking me for the meeting password.  I can't find any reference to a password to the zoom room. 

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Falcon Pi Player / Effects won't play from FPP

« on: December 15, 2020, 11:37:28 PM »

I installed 4 light bulbs that are flashed with custom E131 firmware.  I have each bulb as a single pixel model in xLights and each bulbs IP address is listed as a controller on its own universe with 4 channels.  If I put FPP in bridge mode and test from xLights the bulbs are fine and do what they are supposed to in test mode.  If I load a playlist in xSchedule, the bulbs play perfectly with the sequence.  However, when I play the same sequences or go into test mode from FPP, the bulbs do not do anything.  I have checked and rechecked everything but I can not figure out why the lights wont do anything from FPP but work perfectly from xLights.  I know I have to be missing something but I am at a loss.  Can anyone offer any insight or things I can do to troubleshoot the issue?  Here are some screenshots of my setup.

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Xlights Setup / Import models/ channel mapping from FPP?

« on: December 03, 2020, 01:02:21 PM »

I can't seem to find an answer to this question or if this is even possible.  But, I lost my xlights layout with my models and channels set.  I reinstalled xlights and recreated the models, but I was wondering if there is a way to import all the channel numbers into xlights from FPP?  Even if I have to delete the layout I have in xlights and import what is in FPP, that would be great also.

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Falcon Pi Player / How to upload to FPP from xLights

« on: April 02, 2019, 06:12:31 PM »

I recently updated xLights and the FPP.  I havent used either since Christmas.  I am attempting to upload a new sequence to the FPP.  When I click on the FPP Connect in xLights, once I select the sequence I am uploading, there is no "upload" button.  How do I send the files to the FPP?

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Nutcracker Models / How to model arches in a line?

« on: April 01, 2019, 10:41:30 AM »

I have a project I'm working on for my kids school gala.  I am making arches over the enterance to the gala.  There are three arches that people walk under and the arches are in a straight line.  When I am placing the effects in xlights, the arches are side by side so some effects don't render quite right.  How can I properly model arches in a line?  Currently I have to place each effect on each arch.  When I place the effect on the group, the effect models as the arches are next to each other.  I know this is probably a simple fix but I just can't come up with anything at the moment.  I am on the latest version of xlights BTW.

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General Software / Copy/ Paste doesn't work

« on: December 18, 2018, 09:48:44 PM »

I am playing around with the Greatest Showman sequence and I am having a problem copying and pasting effects.  For some reason, xLights will not allow me to even select the series of effects so that I may copy and paste them to another model.  Is there a reason this would happen?

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General Software / Re: Importing Sequences without audio?

« on: December 09, 2018, 06:47:02 PM »

I did a search for that and all that came up is peoples shows running the sequence, nothing about how to get the audio file.

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General Software / Importing Sequences without audio?

« on: December 09, 2018, 04:12:43 PM »

My first show is up and running this year.  Very small, only a few arches and verticals but still love it.  I watch other peoples shows on youtube and see complicated and cool effects that people use.  I am learning the different things like layer blending and effects settings by playing around with the software.  But, I have found it much easier to download sequences that people have put up on the google drive.  I watch the effects people have created and look at the settings used to create them.  It's very helpful.  I also like to listen to the audio and see how people use the timings to place effects.  This brings me to my question.

I downloaded a Greatest Showman sequence from the drive, but it didn't include the audio file.  Since I own the album, I used my file for the audio.  But, none of the effects sync up with the audio.  The sequence I downloaded was from Logan Carpenter and there were other files called iTunes RPP in the folder.  I don't know what these files are for or how to use them.  Is there a way to sync audio to a sequence?  I tried the "shift effects" option but that doesn't do what I thought it would.  Also I dont know if the audio file used in the sequence was edited in any way.  Thanks for any help.

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Show Assets / Logan-Singing Matrix Tree

« on: December 03, 2018, 09:31:32 AM »

I am working with Logan's sequence of Cant Stop the Feeling from Trolls.  I got most of the effects working except for some of the Mega tree faces.  I am looking for the face he calls "singing matrix tree."  When you import the sequence, do these files get imported as well?  If so, I can't seem to locate them.

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General Software / Re: Importing Faces/ Effects

« on: December 03, 2018, 08:52:38 AM »

Ok so I got Poppy to work by going into the model layout and selecting the face definition.   I guess since the face names are in the xml file I imported, I was able to select "Poppy."  I then hit download images.  I guess Logan put the poppy face image on the google drive, I was available for download.  Once I did that, the poppy part of the tree worked.  My question is now, how can I download the images that are not on the google drive.  I do not see an option to select a file path for the face you want.

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General Software / Re: Importing Faces/ Effects

« on: December 03, 2018, 08:15:49 AM »

I've replaced all te paths and I notice that in the xlights_rbgeffects file, all paths are use forward slashes.  However, on my machine they are all backslashes.  Is this a programming language thing?  Should I use forward or back slashes?

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General Software / Re: Importing Faces/ Effects

« on: November 29, 2018, 02:20:51 PM »

FYI- I was able to get the eyes and all of the picture files to work by telling xLights where the file was located on my computer.  However, I can't seem to find the same soft of feature for the faces.

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General Software / Importing Faces/ Effects

« on: November 29, 2018, 12:12:45 PM »

I am playing around with faces on a tree and to learn, I downloaded "can't Stop the Feeling" sequence from the Google drive.  However, I can't seem to find out how to import the faces and animations for the tree.  Is there a faces/ eyes import feature?  I mapped the tree to my model and the face animation will not work.

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General Software / Display Element "greyed" out

« on: November 28, 2018, 11:59:18 AM »

I have one of my columns that is now not showing on the sequencing tab.  When I go to the display elements it is already in the display but is greyed out like its not selectable.  How can I fix this?  It does not have overlapping channels and I cant see anything else wrong.  It was previously working fine.