Lights blinking when they should be solid

[Onesmoothhead]

Hello, the struggles of the hobby are so fun. here is what I am running for set up.

Lynx Ethernet Dongle - Falcon8 - to Lynx Express - Lynx Express and terminate is on. 

My channels are blinking when they should be solid. I checked in Nutcracker and they are marked to be solid.
I did go into TEST in xLights and every thing is fine.  I set to full on and the are rock solid.  Any idea what I am doing wrong in Nutcracker? The of course are 120v lights

[kevinp]

A couple of things to try for the On effect...

Make sure shimmer isn't checked and your start/end intensities are set the same.  Also make sure you don't have a fade in/out time set in the layer blending window.  Cycle count at 0 can't hurt either.

Who knows, I might be completely off base and someone with more knowledge can correct me or add to this.

[scuba]

Ran into the same problem earlier this week.  I'm pretty sure this is not your issue, but then again...

I had been testing my sequences with XL and had the Light output button on; I wasn't playing any sequences, just Idle. 

But I was also running my FPP to test it's functionally; running a test sequence.  What I saw was what you see.  Flashing/shimmering lights when it should be solid.  The reason this happens is not clear to me, but I think it has to do with a conflict between XL output and the Pi trying to run a sequence.  Possibly the network traffic from both  were sending different commands to the controllers.

All be told, as soon as I turned off the XL lights button, all was good.

[ronniek]

I had this problem when I first got my lights up and testing my programming. To my surprise I had some overlapping channels. One model had a few of the same channels as another so it took me a few days to find out why they would blink when I didn't program it to do that. Just something to check, good luck finding your problem.

[Onesmoothhead]

I still have an issue.  Here is the latest: not running Pi yet. I set up a animation test sequence of solid on for 8 seconds and receive the same results. Here is a screen shot of the set up and one of the models.

[Onesmoothhead]

I have tried everything. I am going to run a schedule and see if it still happens.

[jnealand]

Lynx Ethernet Dongle - Falcon8 - to Lynx Express - Lynx Express and terminate is on. 

I do not understand how you can go from a Falcon 8 to an LE.  The Falcon is a pixelnet device and the LE is a DMX device.  I go from my ETD to a Lynx active hub and then out to F16/8 and use the DMX out to go to DMX devices, but I've never heard of connecting an F8 and an LE together.

[Onesmoothhead]

The Falcon 8 has DMX out, but maybe my old eyes are screwing with me.  I wil check again. Thank sir

[jnealand]

Your right, I have always assumed that 2nd jack was another pixelnet out.  Hmmmm  something to think about, although my dmx use has gone way down.

[Onesmoothhead]

I am going to try my active hub, but I am now think it could be a universe issue.  I still like the comments and help. Thanks for any and all comments.

[scuba]

Kevin
Are you using a single color of WHITE n the sequence?

[phlpyro]

I am a beginner and had the same flicker problem and eventually found that in the E131 set up screen in xLights I had duplicate lines check whole page to delete/change them. I did this and the flicker disappeared.

[Onesmoothhead]

Here is the update, the lights were blinking because of a power supply that was running lower power than advertised. Thank you all for the help.