Single channel lights

[logandc99]

I have eight strings of led lights that are either blue or multicoloured that originally came with the multifunction controllers that you buy from Big W or Kmart etc. I cut off the controllers and have wired them up so they should work as single channel lights. I am running them from a LOR DC controller (CMB160-DC).   I am using one of the DMX outputs from a  J1-Sys ECG12s which runs to an AVD DC24 controller and then onto the LOR controller. In Xlights, I set each string up as a model that is single channel white ( i have all tried as blue, red or green). When I use the test function in xlights, I can get the strings to light up if I turn the sliders for "background colour" up  under the RGB tab or under the standard tab if I slide up the background slider. However, when i put them into a static sequence I can't get them to light no matter what colour I set them to (white, red, green, blue etc). Now I obviously have them somehow setup wrong in layout tab in the model settings but I can't for the life of me work out how they should be setup in order for them to come on when i apply and on affect. I don't need them to dim or do anything fancy, I just need to them to come on during the static part of my display and go off during the musical part. Any advice welcome. Thanks

[Gilrock]

If you think your model settings might be wrong then you should probably show them to us.  We can't guess what values you are putting on your dialog.

[logandc99]

Thanks Gil. Here are the files

[Gilrock]

I don't know which model you are having a problem with.  By the way in the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file is where your models are defined you have a few models with a dimming curve definition that has brightness set to 0.

[logandc99]

oops, sorry about that. They are the models called native garden 1, native garden 2 etc. up to 8. I have checked the models for those which appear to have the dimming curves set to 100.
I didn't realise I had some set other models set to 0. I will have to look at those.

[Gilrock]

I would manually edit the xlights_rgbeffects.xml file to remove the dimming curve block from those models and see if they start working.  I ran into an issue with the dimming curves not working for me and that was the only way to restore it back to normal.

[logandc99]

Ok, thanks. I'll give that a try. Editing the xml file.... a bit scary for me
So I just delete this bit for each of the native garden models?
- <dimmingCurve>
  <red brightness="100" gamma="" />
  <green brightness="100" gamma="" />
  <blue brightness="100" gamma="" />
  </dimmingCurve>

[Gilrock]

Yep.  If you open xLights and do F10 backup it will zip up a copy then exit xLights and make the changes.  I'd use an editor that displays it nicely like Notepad++.

[logandc99]

Great. Thanks

[logandc99]

Just got around to doing this now. Removing the dimming curves worked a treat. Thanks.


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[Gilrock]

So earlier when I saw you had brightness at zero for the dimming curves I thought it was a problem but I noticed my models now have the same thing so it appears zero is the default brightness and it goes either positive or negative from there.