Two Separate Homes in NC?

[Donny M. Carter]

I want to be able to do two separate homes. Is this possible? Can someone please explain? Thanks!

Donny

[Steve Gase]

I want to be able to do two separate homes. Is this possible? Can someone please explain? Thanks!

Donny

Have both homes shown on the same  background picture.
Separate the channel assignments...  the first 32 universes for home #1 and the next 32 for home #2.

Have fpp #1 serve home #1 with the first 32 universes.

Are you looking for something else?

[Donny M. Carter]

I want to be able to do two separate homes. Is this possible? Can someone please explain? Thanks!

Donny

Have both homes shown on the same  background picture.
Separate the channel assignments...  the first 32 universes for home #1 and the next 32 for home #2.

Have fpp #1 serve home #1 with the first 32 universes.

Are you looking for something else?

This will work. May get a little confusing at first, but will work. I was hoping I could have two separate layouts, background pictures, and channel setups.

[Phrog30]

I want to be able to do two separate homes. Is this possible? Can someone please explain? Thanks!

Donny

Have both homes shown on the same  background picture.
Separate the channel assignments...  the first 32 universes for home #1 and the next 32 for home #2.

Have fpp #1 serve home #1 with the first 32 universes.

Are you looking for something else?

This will work. May get a little confusing at first, but will work. I was hoping I could have two separate layouts, background pictures, and channel setups.

You can, create another folder. One folder for one home, another folder for the 2nd. Kind of like Halloween shows vs Christmas shows.

[Gilrock]

Yeah I have about 26 homes on my computer.  A show directory for each one of you that's had issues and given us your files. 

[Donny M. Carter]

Yeah I have about 26 homes on my computer.  A show directory for each one of you that's had issues and given us your files.

Would you please explain how I would do this? Thanks!

[Gilrock]

On the Setup tab see where it says Directories at the top?  Hit the Change button beside Show Directory and point it to a different directory.  I usually click the Link button to keep my media directory pointing to the selected show directory.  You can have as many Show Directories as you want.  So when people give me files for troubleshooting I just copy them to a new directory, open xLights, and then change the Show Directory to point to that folder and viola I can see their Layout and sequence on their house.  Some of my videos actually have other people's houses cause I liked their setup better than mine.

[Donny M. Carter]

On the Setup tab see where it says Directories at the top?  Hit the Change button beside Show Directory and point it to a different directory.  I usually click the Link button to keep my media directory pointing to the selected show directory.  You can have as many Show Directories as you want.  So when people give me files for troubleshooting I just copy them to a new directory, open xLights, and then change the Show Directory to point to that folder and viola I can see their Layout and sequence on their house.  Some of my videos actually have other people's houses cause I liked their setup better than mine.

Thank you! So simple!

[gerry]

On the Setup tab see where it says Directories at the top?  Hit the Change button beside Show Directory and point it to a different directory.  I usually click the Link button to keep my media directory pointing to the selected show directory.  You can have as many Show Directories as you want.  So when people give me files for troubleshooting I just copy them to a new directory, open xLights, and then change the Show Directory to point to that folder and viola I can see their Layout and sequence on their house.  Some of my videos actually have other people's houses cause I liked their setup better than mine.

Gil,
Do you've to copy your xLights_* files across to the new show directory (or will it attempt to make a copy ?)

[flyinverted]

Yeah I have about 26 homes on my computer.  A show directory for each one of you that's had issues and given us your files.

And one boat!

[Gilrock]

On the Setup tab see where it says Directories at the top?  Hit the Change button beside Show Directory and point it to a different directory.  I usually click the Link button to keep my media directory pointing to the selected show directory.  You can have as many Show Directories as you want.  So when people give me files for troubleshooting I just copy them to a new directory, open xLights, and then change the Show Directory to point to that folder and viola I can see their Layout and sequence on their house.  Some of my videos actually have other people's houses cause I liked their setup better than mine.

Gil,
Do you've to copy your xLights_* files across to the new show directory (or will it attempt to make a copy ?)

xLights just uses whatever files exist in the directory you switch to.  If they don't exist it assumes you want to start in a new blank directory so you get a blank set of files created.

[jnealand]

Do you've to copy your xLights_* files across to the new show directory (or will it attempt to make a copy ?)

Yes.  I have a master xlights folder.  Under that I have folders for Christmas 2013, Christmas 2014, Christmas 2015, Halloween 2014, Halloween 2014, downloaded from someone 1, downloaded from someone else, etc.  I start Christmas 2015 by copying EVERYTHING in the Christmas 2014 folder.  Then I start updating for new models and new channel assignments, add new sequences etc.  Since I use multiple computers I backup the folders to a thumbdrive and copy all files to the second, third, or whatever computer.  In practice I have a little sync program installed on each computer that will only copy the changes between the thumb drive and each computers hard drive.  You could also do this with a network or cloud drive, but do not use the network drive or cloud drive to sequence and have more than one computer running xlights or you can get unexpected problems from one computer changing something that the other computer is already using.  Clear as mud I know.

[gerry]

xLights just uses whatever files exist in the directory you switch to.  If they don't exist it assumes you want to start in a new blank directory so you get a blank set of files created.

Thanks (Gil and Jon) - when I was testing this out for the manual a few weeks ago , it kept crashing with an unable to update rgbeffects as soon as I changed the directory , so I was not sure what it actually did and accordingly skimmed over that bit in the manual.

I do believe that the rgbeffects that was already there (in the second directory) was quite a bit older , so maybe that was the problem.

Will update the manual.

When you start  xLights , where does it get the current show directory from ? (Windows)
I uninstalled xLights (and am pretty sure that the directory in C:\Programs\... was removed), renamed the show directory and yet when I installed a new version , it looked for the previous show directory.
(was testing out my initial setup instructions in the manual prior to publication)

[Gilrock]

On Windows it's in the registry under Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\xLights

[gerry]

Thanks Gil.