Having a tough Time With

[Lights On Fifth]

I am having a heck of time getting LOR to support one of my sequences, let me explain I have a medley that is 17 and half minutes in length, I have used the medley in my LOR show and it is very popular, it is songs from the 50's right up to present day, I sequenced the song in Xlights and expoted the model to an LCB file, then I opened LOR and opened the medley, I then loaded the LCB file and pasted into my LOR sequence, everything works to this point, until I try to save the sequence or play the sequence. Sean how can I tell how large the Xlight file is? it must be huge, if I try to open and play any of my other sequences LOR will not work. However if I delete the Xlight file of the medley then the rest of my sequences will play, ( all my other sequences are pixel equipped and have been sequenced using Xlights ) the only conclusion I am coming to is the Xlight file is to large for LOR to handle, and yes I have the 4 GB patch, is there a way to compress the file to get it work or am I wasting my time.

[colonelcline]

Right click the lcb file and select remove after you paste from it. Under the Undo settings, if you didn't already  uncheck it, do that. Then try to save it. Also if you have not run the 4gb patch on Lorsequence.exe do that. But think that file is probably close to 4 gigs and Lor may just not be capable. done so far is 1.2 gig. 

[sean]

Most LOR folks find that it works best to bring LOR into clights, add Nutcracker effects and then play the show in xlights or the falcon pi player. both can run shows of 60K channels.

Going back into LOR is just going to be a problem until they rewrite LOR to handle the higher channel count shows.

a 3 minute wizards of winter show on my 24K channels was 900 mbytes in size when i create a lcb export.
a 17 minute show? I just think you should run it from xlights or the fpp.

[JonB256]

Most LOR folks find that it works best to bring LOR into clights, add Nutcracker effects and then play the show in xlights or the falcon pi player. both can run shows of 60K channels.

Going back into LOR is just going to be a problem until they rewrite LOR to handle the higher channel count shows.

a 3 minute wizards of winter show on my 24K channels was 900 mbytes in size when i create a lcb export.
a 17 minute show? I just think you should run it from xlights or the fpp.

Must agree. Taking a lot of pixels back to LOR is an unnecessary hassle. File sizes are huge, load times are just silly.

[Lights On Fifth]

That is what I thought now time to change all my LOR stuff to DMX, the beauty part is I have a ot of time to do this, as all my sequencing for this is year is done

[colonelcline]

I don't disagree with anything said but I am programming 56 sequences across LOR, xlights, and Falcon. Covering all bases. As we speak I have LOR running my 14728 channels hooked up to about 25% the lights and LOR is working fine with compressed sequences. Some sequences are almost 1 gig.  Amazes me too!! My first 80 channels are LOR because of distance. xlights has ot problem and I'm not that far hardware wise into my Pi. Just saying.

[sean]

I dont know what "xlights has ot problem" means?
Are u having any issues playing on the pi?

[JonB256]

And I'm curious about "are LOR because of distance."

LOR and DMX use the exact same protocol, RS485,  and there is no distance difference.

[colonelcline]

I dont know what "xlights has ot problem" means?
Are u having any issues playing on the pi?

Typo, No or not. Xlights works beautifully. The Pi has been easy so far but we have not hooked it up to lights yet.

[colonelcline]

And I'm curious about "are LOR because of distance."
LOR and DMX use the exact same protocol, RS485,  and there is no distance difference.

We light up 13 acres across a 1000' distance. Easy Linkers are easier to use than running a bunch of cat5 on the ground. We've done that but the deer like to stomp it and it gets buried under snow and hard to repair or replace. So my setup in XL starts with a COM3and 80 channels hooked to a 485 then a linker and then off to another and a repeater or 2. The others all  come off of 4 pixlite16's and a pixlite 4 to a gigahub and are cat5 with bridges at each stage.  We have 2 dmx wireless units on order kinda as a test to see if they can handle the data better than AP's but will always have outdoor cat5 to each stage. Think the idea was to stay inside where it is warm after the deer stampede and just switch to wireless.