Background sequence on the FP - xlights effects

[gerry]

Hello,

I thought I post a thread from the Falcon forum.

In particular , please look at #reply12 (in summary - indicates how  an xLights exported effect can be executed in the background and in parallel to other sequences running) .

Note that you need at least the 1.5 Beta - a new version of which will be posted at any day now after a glitch was found in the last one. 

http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php/topic,2752.0/topicseen.html

[JonB256]

Note that you need at least the 1.5 Beta - a new version of which will be posted at any day now after a glitch was found in the last one. 

http://falconchristmas.com/forum/index.php/topic,2752.0/topicseen.html

Gerry, a new 1.5 Beta version isn't needed to get these changes. The existing version just needs the user to run the Update feature on the "Help / About" page.

The latest update has these changes in it (as of 8/19/2015)

24059c1 - Chris Pinkham, 6 hours ago : Merge branch 'master' into stage
6a3f79c - Chris Pinkham, 6 hours ago : [Scripts] Fix some scripts which still had 'pi' user in them.
bd8d098 - Chris Pinkham, 6 hours ago : Merge branch 'master' into stage
82eeb48 - Chris Pinkham, 6 hours ago : [MultiSync] Update RFC 1918 private network list
4be7953 - Chris Pinkham, 9 hours ago : [Troubleshooting] Add ethtool output for eth0
a89b874 - Chris Pinkham, 9 hours ago : Merge branch 'master' into stage
da29108 - Chris Pinkham, 9 hours ago : [Effects] Support auto-looping effects and auto-run backgroun

[gerry]

Gerry, a new 1.5 Beta version isn't needed to get these changes. The existing version just needs the user to run the Update feature on the "Help / About" page.
The latest update has these changes in it (as of 8/19/2015)

Thanks Jon,
I had bought a new SD card for the BBB FP as I thought Id try the load into memory version from the new image, saw that it had been removed , then saw this change Chris had posted and assumed it had been bundled in the image release only.