AC strings

[Santacarl]

Hey All,

I thought I'd play around with sequencing my Renards in XL/NC.  I currently use HLS to do all my AC strings (LED) and haven't played with trying to get them to work in XL/NC and instead I just drop my XL/NC effects into an existing HLS sequence where I have already added all my AC strings.....

So....I'm finding XL/NC not intuitive in regard to AC strings...or at least for me it's not 'user friendly' in that regard.  I can't figure out how to configure them in the "Layout" tab.  I HAVE added them in the "Setup" tab with no problem....but the configuration in "Layout" leaves me scratching my head.  I'm sure once you know how to 'hold your mouth' and make the correct choices/setups it's easy.....I just can't figure out what those choices are.

Is there a video some place of how to do this?  I've done a search but didn't find anything that I could use to get through my thick head.... 

Can someone help me get started down the correct path?  I'm lost.

[keithsw1111]

There are several options. 

You can use the block of channels model and just sequence them that way.

You can create each model and set their string type to single colour or rgb... these will allocate 1 or 3 channels per string of lights.

There are videos on it but they are not common. Grab one of Sean's beginning videos at videos.xlights.org there may even be one on ac models. I don't think I covered it in my ac sequencing video.

[Santacarl]

There are several options. 

You can use the block of channels model and just sequence them that way.

You can create each model and set their string type to single colour or rgb... these will allocate 1 or 3 channels per string of lights.

There are videos on it but they are not common. Grab one of Sean's beginning videos at videos.xlights.org there may even be one on ac models. I don't think I covered it in my ac sequencing video.

Thanks Keith.....the "single colour" hint might be what I'm looking for.....but I'm curious if I need to identify it as a Renard or E1.31 since I actually use an E682 to run my Renards off of.....I'm guessing the Renard setting would push me to identify a specific port....and in that case I'd need to use E1.31......

Sorry...mostly thinking out loud there..... It those small choices that usually trip me up!   

[keithsw1111]

E131. Xlights needs to use that to send it to the sandevices. It then transforms it to renard protocol.

[Santacarl]

E131. Xlights needs to use that to send it to the sandevices. It then transforms it to renard protocol.

Thanks for the confirmation Keith....I finally got one right!