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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Disabling / Ignoring pixels?

« on: October 17, 2019, 11:38:57 PM »

I'm sure this is easy and already answered but I wasn't having any luck with the search (still learning how this forum operates). I have two lights on our eaves that don't really form a visible part of the presentation so I'm wondering if they can just be disabled in XLights? I also have created a web for halloween using 19 strings but there are points where they double up. I'd like to disable the duplicates as well if I can.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: "Talking" string?

« on: October 13, 2019, 11:42:24 PM »

It appears the face effect will do the trick here! I'm repeatedly impressed by the resource that is the Xessentials series.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / "Talking" string?

« on: October 11, 2019, 09:12:22 AM »

I'm curious what the best way to create a "talking" string might be? I have a horizontal strand across my garage that I'd like to use for a spoken audio track I found. I'd like it to "talk" like the LEDs on Knight Rider (if i remember correctly). I'd like it to emanate from the center of the segment and be able to control how wide out it goes before bringing it back in for the next syllable/phoneme.

I've seen it done with Arduino robot projects and the like (in case I'm not explaining myself clear enough).