Hey guys I'm fairly new to xlights. Love the software. Started setting up everything and it's going pretty well until I get to my layout part. I set each starting point and how many lights are in each model and it's coming up with some weird end channels. So much so that it's not working with the lights. I even go into each individual modeel and say what ip and universe to use and even though that's set, if i scroll over it with my mouse it's always off on the universe. What do you guys need to help, ie screen shots or network layout. Please help
Tell us what kind of lights you are using (smart rgb, dumb rgb, incandescent) and post your network and rgb_effects.xml files.
On another note I have made a 9*18 matrix starting at the bottom left running horizontal. Do I have to run the first 18 then solder a jumper so the second set with be back above the 1st pixel or can it just go above the 18th and run back toward the 1st?
Yes, go down, up one, and back. In our venacular that's called "zig-zagging" For a model with an odd number of strands, it's best to set the zig-zag in the controller. You can run 162 nodes off of one SPI output (with power injected at the end), so I would run one string and in the controller set the Zig-Zag setting for that SPI output to 18. Then you could set the model up like below:
