So trying to do this right my first year and had a few questions. I understand mostly the channel/universe setup for xlights and my pixlite4. My question I wanted to ask is there a better/right way to setup items?
Here is what I have for year 1 display in terms of pixels in continuous runs on each output of my pixlite 4. Choose this arrangement based on where the strings were going to run.
Output 1: 92 pixels for 2nd story (so 276 channels)
Output 2: 70 pixels for garage (210 channels)
Output 3: 180 total pixels for tree, arch, and front wall (540 channels)
Output 4: 50 pixels for wreath (150 channels)
My current thought was to set the channel/universe numbers for the pixlite4 as follows so there was only enough channels for each item:
Output 1: Universe 1; 276 channels
Output 2: Universe 2; 210 channels
Output 3: Universe 3; 240 channels; Universe 4 300 channels
Output 4: Universe 5; 150 channels
In xlights I would then setup my channels in the same manner and manually put the starting channel for each model.
My biggest question is will this make adding stuff next year harder since I will have to reorganize all the channels. Is there a better way to do it? Still learning how the universe/channels really work or how overlap of one to the next works.
Any suggestions/comments/tutorials if I should be setting stuff up a different way?
