Very basic question about mini tree setup...

[dkulp]

Most likely a special character in a file name.  This should be fixed with .47 and FPP 2.4.2 and 2.5.   Make sure you have updated both.

[Stormyblade]

Most likely a special character in a file name.  This should be fixed with .47 and FPP 2.4.2 and 2.5.   Make sure you have updated both.

It's not that - I went through that back around Halloween when I posted that I couldn't add songs to a playlist and that was the solution you mentioned.

Again, I am not complaining, and it's probably me not clearly understanding what happens when you use the FPP Connect function within xLights -- all I know is that not too long ago (a month or so), when I used that function I would see the text "Transferring xxx.fseq" and then "Transferring xxx.mp3" and now very recently I am seeing that same text with the additional "Compressing ..." and "De-compressing ... " before and after.  Maybe it was always saying that and I only just started noticing??

The good news is that everything runs and looks great now. I've got 2 minor repairs to do to strings, but that's strictly hardware. The P10 matrix displays everything I've thrown at it now, the lights are all working, and I am quite happy.

[dkulp]

Basically, with a good SD card, you can write about 20MB/s on the Pi/BBB.  However, the 100Mb connection only allows transfers of about 8MB/s (and actually significantly less than that as the FTP implementation in wxWidgets sucks).   By compressing (gzip) the fseq files (which are in general very highly compressible, 15:1 or higher is not unheard of) we can transfer the files MUCH faster and then uncompress them at the full 20MB/s.  This was added in .45.  I can now transfer my entire show in about 10 minutes compared to over 30 minutes before.    So with .45, it does compress the fseq to a gzip file in memory first, transfers the file via the same HTTP "upload" that would occur if you use the FPP web page upload, and the update to FPP's "post upload" scripts detect the gz and uncompresses it.   

[Stormyblade]

I really should read the patch notes more often...

Thanks for that explanation Dan. I hoped I wasn't going nuts...