Chaining models

[tyczj]

I am very new to using xLights so I don't know if this is possible but I am wondering if you can have 2 different models share the same data line?

Currently I have just a string of pixels going across the gutters of my house and now I want to add lights around the windows. The plan was to have my controller on one side of the house where the majority of the connections are going to be then have the other side's data line connect to the lights that go across the gutter so that I don't have to run a long data line from the controller to just one window.

The gutter lights and the window lights should act independently from each other (they will not have the same effect) I am just trying to be efficient with the wiring.

If I were to do this on an Arduino device without using xLights I would treat then as one long string and split the indexes into 2 arrays where the gutter ends and the window starts, but I am trying to get into more advanced lighting control.

Is this possible?

[Gilrock]

If you mean can you set that up in xLights sure.  If you're controller can handle it you could put the entire show on one data lines.  xLights doesn't know anything about how your data lines are connected.  You just create a block of channels.  You tell each model where in that block of channels it starts.  Then you setup controllers to receive the desired slices of that block of channels.