Map by Strand

[djohnson1810]

I am taking baby steps and practicing moving my LOR files over to xlights/nutcracker.  I am trying to take a simple 50 node RGB strip "Soffit Study" and use the Map by Strand to import in into xlights/nutcracker via the import effects.  I select the lms file and tic the Map by Strand box.  I then select Soffit Study in the first column, but when I try and pick the corresponding strand in the LMS file, it is blank.

Any thoughts?

 

[Gilrock]

I just tried this out to pull in data for my 12 ribbon tree.  I think it may depend on how you have things setup in LOR as to whether it detects the strands.  I selected my ribbon tree model checked the Map by Strand box and hit Add Model For Import.  Then for each strand I had to click in the Channel field and a combo box appeared with CCR01 through CCR12 so I mapped all 12 and hit OK.  You gotta click in that channel field a couple times for the combo box to show up.  The model needed to be already on your sequencer grid.  When it's done you need to drill down to the node level to see the effects.  For me this brought in literally thousands of effects.  When I saved the imported sequence it took 5 minutes which is insanely long.  So to me it doesn't look practical to import large amounts of RGB data into the node level.  The SuperStar import is much more efficient because it creates the effects at the model level.  You could probably use this feature to pull in A/C channel data but for RGB you're better off recreating effects in xLights.

[gerry]

Mrchristmas2000 posted a very detailed set of instructions on how to do the import for lsp last week and that would be equally applicable for Lor , I would think.

I have used this import function for purchased singing face lms, but othérwise am bringing in my old sequences from Lsp via the data later method as non editable effects.

[djohnson1810]

Thanks.  I have read Mrchristmas2000 post and watched Danial Kulp's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnNeXwizh3U but no joy.  I have tried making sure that the channel numbers are the same in xlights and LOR as well as the node count.

I can see the left colum (the LOR strands) but I don't have anything show up on the right colum (xlight strands).

[Gilrock]

The left column is not the LOR strands...the left column are the xLights models that will receive the data.  The column titled "channel" is where you pick the channels or ccr strands that we found when parsing your LMS file.  Look at about the 5:50 mark in Dan's video.  You will see him selecting the LMS channels in the 4th column.

For LMS it looks like Dan has it looking for the lines with "rgbChannel" like I've pasted below.  Then he searches for that "-P" and strips off everything there forward.  For for my sequence this would get me a channel called "CCR01" in the drop-down list.
      <rgbChannel totalCentiseconds="9043" name="CCR01-P01" savedIndex="3">

So open your LMS file in a text editor and search for "rgbChannel" and see what your names look like.  If your channels aren't named that way then that could be why it's not working.  Dan can only write to the code based on the example files people give him.  He doesn't even own LOR software.

[djohnson1810]

Yes.  I stated the column's backwards.  I will try the text editor.

Any other ways to import LOR strands into xlight models?

[Gilrock]

Well you saw Dan's video so you saw the 2 ways.  Use a data layer if you just need the raw data.  Use Import Effects if you want editable effects.  I personally only import RGB stuff as data layers because it turns into too many effects.  I use Import Effects for my A/C channel data.

[djohnson1810]

Thanks.  I ended up just doing it node by node.