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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Pulling My Hair Out!!!!

« on: December 06, 2020, 05:37:18 PM »

This is my first year using xLights and to say the least, I am very disappointed! I have had nothing but issues and I have tried talking to some people and they have suggested things but still have a show that is very disappointing. I need some assistance please!

I came from LOR and am trying to use 13 LOR boxes in my show. 6 of them are AC controllers (16PC-G3), 1 is a RGB controller (CMB24D), 5 are CCB controllers and 1 is a Pixie 2 controller. I have the 5 CCB controllers connected via a USB Serial port (Serial 1) and they are working just fine. My Pixie 2 controller is connected to an Advatek board (DMX) ports and it is working great! However, my 6 AC controllers and my RGB controllers do not work well. I have tried to connect through Advatek DMX ports - did not work. Connected with USB Serial Port and they light up sometimes but the channels do not map correctly. I have made sure all channel setup is correct and still not working.

I have made so many changes to my setup that now my other Pixel Props which are controlled by Advatek boards are acting up. For example, my singing bulbs only have one half of the mouth lite up and when singing, the other half may light up but it looks bad. I am at a loss.

When I open a sequence in the sequencer and run the sequence through the sequencer, most LOR models light up correctly, the bulbs display correctly, there seems to be minor issues. When I run Check Sequence, I have a few warnings but no issues. Everything looks great.

Then when I use xSchedule, that when things begin to change. AC and RGB controllers do not work, bulbs look bad. When running Check schedule, I get an error on all my sequences saying the FSEQ item with 88320 channels  when it should be 88808 channels. I have checked everything. This did not begin happening until I added blank models for my LOR AC controllers where there is nothing plugged in.

I have attached my network, setup, schedule, and my Let It Go sequence.

Can someone please try to help me?

Thank you very much!
Greg

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / xSheduler does not work on MAC

« on: November 29, 2020, 08:41:47 AM »

Hi,

My show is not running as I cannot get the xScheduler to work on my machine. When downloading the newest version of xLights, the xScheduler is NOT included. Everything was working just fine in xLights before I found an older version of xScheduler and tried using it. Now I am getting errors with advatek boards that don't make any sense and no boards are showing on xSchedule. I tried to transfer my files to a Windows computer and the xScheduler works fine but I cannot update any files that I transferred. I am new to xLights and wanted to make the switch but now I am frustrated that my show is not working. Can anyone help??

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: XScheduler issue on Mac

« on: November 22, 2020, 03:38:26 PM »

I had the same issue and resolved it by getting a previous version of xLights and downloading that to my MAC. Luckily I had it in my downloads, cannot figure out how to get previous versions from the Apple store. Put my copy in the attachments. Maybe that will work.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Re: Model Issues

« on: November 18, 2020, 06:28:59 PM »

Thanks for your feedback! I was able to figure it out, it had to do with assigning individual start channels to my mega tree. It works now.

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Do You Need Help? Post it here / Model Issues

« on: November 18, 2020, 10:34:25 AM »

I am new to xLights and cannot figure out why my Mega Trees with 16 strings with 100 pixels (50 up, 50 down) only shows an effect on the first 16 strands. I have checked my model setup - 360 degrees, 16 strings by 2 strands. Starting channel is IP, universe, channel 1; starting location bottom left. I do not have individual start channels.

When I test the Mega Tree out of xLights, there are no issues. Not sure where to go from here. Does anyone have any recommendations?