Newbe needs set up help!

[BLarson]

So I just did what you said and copied and pasted my sequence a couple of times and now it is on a nice loop with no breaks in between.

I wanted to thank everyone for there help with my first pixel project/mega tree this year. Because of you all, I was able to get the tree up and running in time for Christmas. I have loved switching over to Xlights!  Being able to use my Mac and not have to mess with Windows has been fantastic. And it turned out great. Here is a sequence which I sped up to 1.5 speed for the sake of time.
https://vimeo.com/150395063

I just used all of the XLights  preset tools and it worked great. Thanks again!

[babybear]

It feels good.... We are all glad you were up and running for X-mas. Just remember we are here to help. As for the tree. it looked as the front was facing the side. on a full 360 tree the #1 strand would be all the way to the back center. Nice Job!!!!! Now are you adding more items for next year?  A  few gift boxes around the bottom.  Corrugated Plastic with lights inside. Easy to work with.   

[BLarson]

I want to start by saying thank you to all of you for all your help with my first display last year, and I apologize for reviving this thread. I just didn't want to start a new one.

I loved having my mega tree last year and ended up buying a bunch of stuff from holidaycoro to do my gutter and windows in pixels this year, as well as adding more pixels to the mega tree. Well I remodeled the back yard this year and it took up and is still taking my light prep time. So my plan now is just to make the mega tree even mega'er and if I find extra time I will add lights to the house.

So I read that my e682 will handle 1020 pixels in multicast and 2040 in unicast. Right now my tree has 600 pixels on the tree (24 strands of 25 pixels) and 192 lights in the globe for a total of 792 pixels. I still don't really get the multi/unicast thing. So my question is how many pixels can I add to my tree?

What I want to do is to triple my pixels on the tree. So 1800 pixels(30 strands of 60 pixels). So there would be a total of 1992 pixels. Can I do this with an e682? I have a Alphapix 16 v2 which I bought to control the the lights on my house, but I could always use that for my tree if I needed too. But $$.

Thanks in advance for the help. 

[BLarson]

So when I started fiddling with XLights tonight, it says I have a max of 7 universes with 510 Channels per universe for a total of 3570 channels or 1190 pixels and it says it's in multicast. Can I run unicast in Xlights to get more pixels out of my e682?

[keithsw1111]

Sure you can. When you define your e131 controllers choose the unicast radio button and enter your ip address

[BLarson]

Okay. So I've added lights to the tree as previously mentioned. I had 24 strands of 25 pixels in 6 groups of 100. 

Now I have 28 strands of 60 pixels in groups of 120 per output. So 14 outputs on the e682 with the last two being used for the pixel globe which hasn't changed since last year.

So I made the following changes

And I'm getting the following response

I'd appreciate some guidance for a newbie. I know I have something screwed up. 

[keithsw1111]

It looks like you don't have enough channels defined on your setup tab.

[BLarson]

It looks like you don't have enough channels defined on your setup tab.

Thank you!

I finally finished assembling the mega tree and got it all hooked up tonight. I was able to fix the aforementioned issue but now I have new one. My lights are not behaving as they should. When I go to my e682 test page they will go solid red or blue or green etc. But when I synced up with xlights and tested the tree it wasn't looking right. For example I would use the fire tool and it would do the fire thing but be all sorts of random colors. And some of the other preset tools are not looking right. I have something screwed up but I don't know what you all need to see to help me. Even when I set it to a red and green scrolling bar effect it doesn't look right and isn't solid red and green. I don't think there is proper communication.

[BLarson]

The colors appear to be totally random. Looks cool but not clean. Does anyone know what could cause this?

[BLarson]

I have it set here to solid green.
And this is how it looks.

[BLarson]

Here is how I have things set up.

[Gilrock]

For a SanDevices controller you need to use 510 for all he universe sizes in the xLights setup tab.

[BLarson]

For a SanDevices controller you need to use 510 for all he universe sizes in the xLights setup tab.

Dude! You are so so awesome! Changed them all to 510 and it is working beautifully now! Thank you so much!