Renard/AC Lights in xLights

[munu]

I have a Falcon F48 and a Renard TR24. How do I define lights in xLights for the TR24? In Layout do I just add "Create New DMX"? Are there some instructions/videos to to this?

[Gilrock]

No you won't use "Create New DMX" unless you actually have a DMX prop like a moving head or a fogger.  You create whatever model type you need like if its a mega tree use the Tree Model.  If its a single string of lights use the Single Line model.  Doesn't matter if they are hooked up to a DMX controller for regular pixels.  The "DMX" models are meant for props that have additional channels beyond Red, Green, and Blue where you need to actually map where the color channels live among the other channels.  Like a moving head may have Pan and Tilt and other stuff and the colors might not start till channel 5 or higher.

[munu]

Thanks! So I don't want DMX. At least not for now until I get into some moving/motor stuff which I would like to do.

I have a bunch of deers, x-mas trees, etc. All of them are just on/off, not even dimming. So if I understand you correctly, to represent all of those items I would use something like a line (because I don't want to create my own deer model) that represents a deer, another line to represent another deer, another line to represent a x-mas tree, etc. Then for the settings I would just use

* String Type = Single Color
* #Strings=1
* Lights/Strings=50 (it's actually kind of 1 because I cannot control each LED)
* Port = 1 (since I connect my Renard board to serial port 1 of the Falcon F48)
* Protocol = Renard
* Renard Channel = 1 since my first deer is connected to channel one of my TR24, deer 2 would be on channel 2, etc

See attachments.