Xlights - Output to Lights option

[Plaethos75]

Hey all.  So I went to load everything from last year and low and behold - updates...so I updated.

I'm running Rasp Pi - Updated FPP to 4.5
Controller = F16V3...updated to 2.59

FPP:
int w0 ip:  10.2.200.19
int eth0 ip:  192.168.1.100 /24  (255.255.255.0)

F16 ip:  192.168.1.101 /24 (255.255.255.0)

On FPP, I have routing enabled.
Proxy enabled:  192.168.1.101

If I log into FPP and go to proxy and click on my controller, I can open things up.
When I go to input channels, I have manually added all my universes and channels to mimic my output channels.


When in Xlights, I can upload all my stuff to the controller
...upload input/upload output.
...Connect to FPP, works fine.
...Bulk Controller....appears to work fine?

When in Xlights I go to the output to lights, and I don't see anything happen when I play a sequence from my PC.

In Xlights, on the controllers tab, I have added my single controller.  In the configuration parameters to the right - I added my controller IP, and used the FPP Wifi IP where it asks.
I have also added my universe range - 11-18.  Selected the tick box for Individual sizes where my channels are there for each universe.

Looking for some direction.  I've been contemplating downgrading my FPP to v3.x or so...


Thanks in advance!
Looking for some thoughts.

[keithsw1111]

To play through an FPP proxy it has to be in bridge mode.

[Plaethos75]

Got it, tried it -- it works. 

Question though -- Last year i was able to run the show from my Pi (setting up a play list etc).  Without changing the settings from Stand Alone player,  was able to use the Output to Lights option...as for the physical setup, between last year and this year, nothing has changed.  Is it safe to assume that things should be working the same as well?

I guess what I'm looking for here is:
 my FPP is set to Player(Standalone).
 Eth0 is my uplink to my only controller.  Network info between the 2 is correct.
 routing tick box selected
 fpp can ping IPs.
 I have static routes on my inside network to use 10.2.200.19 (FPP WiFi Addy) to route to my 192 network (traceroutes actually die at the FPP and doesn't go through).
 I have Proxy enabled because the manual indicates that if you're routing, you want to turn on the routing tick box. 

 With that all said, Output to Lights doesn't work unless I move the mode to Bridge mode. After uploading my sequencing etc to FPP, it appears my shows etc, work fine.

Any ideas?  I'm still gonna play a little and see if maybe I turned on way too much.  Worse case, I'll just setup a wired/switched connection but I am hopeful to figure this out.


Thanks for the feedback Keith!

[keithsw1111]

If you have static routes ... why do you have the proxy. It is using the proxy that requires bridge mode. Remove the proxy and in theory your static routes will get the data there through the bridged network.

[Plaethos75]

I had the proxies enabled because i couldn't figure out why I couldn't reach my devices via the static routes.  after seeing your reply, i just figured it out.     it was a config that was on my wireless controller.

I run an enterprise wireless setup (Aruba Networks) -- turns out there's a feature in my config that enforces DHCP.  If a client is set to a static IP, it basically drops the packets.  I turned it off, and well, I can reach my devices now. 

Made a few updates via Xlights to remove my proxy setting -- and BAM!  just like that -- all is well. 

Keith - Thank you.