converting from .vix to .fseq

[11Bravo]

This is what I did before trying to convert .vix to .fseq

In xlights I made a .xseq sequence and converted that to .vir

I used the routine loader plugin in Vixen 2.1 to get the .vir sequence into a .vix sequence that had been used for running Renard protocol last season. 

Now I am setting up FPP to run that .vix sequence, but I wasn't able to get xlights to convert it to .fseq

The message kept saying that the file was not in the folder that xlights expected it to be in.  But I could see the file in the folder. 

So I decided to convert a .xseq file which was in that folder to .fseq.  That conversion was successful.

Something wasn't right about the conversion.

Could have been that I copied and pasted it to the folder?

[sean]

You are going thru extra steps, u don't need the vir file.
If your original vix file had 400 channels of renard. Convert that vix into xseq. Now add all your nutcracker effects. Say you have a 7200 channel mega tree starting at channel 511. Create model, add nutcracker effects and resale on top of the xseq. Now this xseq is 7700 channels. Your original channels plus nutcracker channels. Last step, convert xseq into fseq


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[11Bravo]

You are going thru extra steps, u don't need the vir file.
If your original vix file had 400 channels of renard. Convert that vix into xseq. Now add all your nutcracker effects. Say you have a 7200 channel mega tree starting at channel 511. Create model, add nutcracker effects and resale on top of the xseq. Now this xseq is 7700 channels. Your original channels plus nutcracker channels. Last step, convert xseq into fseq

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What do you mean by resale?

The reason I did it like I said in my post above, because I was using Vixen 2.1 and a Desk Top PC to run the show. I needed to incorporate nutcracker into my existing vixen sequence.
Now I am trying to learn Raspberry Pi and FPP to do the show with.
I'll try and follow your instructions to do it with FPP.

[sean]

auto correct problem. it should have said resave instead of resale

you can run your show using xlights instead of vixen.

import channels from vix, add nutcracker save as new xseq. schedule all your xseq sequences and play them using xlights as the show software. works perfectly. this has been xlights main purpose since 2010, run a show.

now if you want even more capability on a show computer, get a raspberry pi and convert your xseq sequences into fseq and run your show using the FPP software. each reaspberry pi can run 64K channels, you can have 64 pi players connected together giving 4 million channels (if needed)

many, many people just run their show using xlights. xlights uses 1/3 of a single cpu to run. it easily will run from laptop computers

so three ways to run your vixen shows:
1) *.vix into xseq files , add nutcracker, export out vir file , paster into original vixen sequence.
 run your show from vixen.
least popular choice

2) *.vix into *.xseq, add nutcracker. run show from xlights

3) *.vix into *.xseq. add nutcracker effects. export as *.fseq and run from raspberry pi/
This is what dave pitts, jon back, myself and hundreds of others are doing.

Both 2) and 3) will work great.

sean

[11Bravo]

I am getting communication error when I check outputs to lights.
1. Are all cables plugged in?  Yes
2. Is there another program running that is accessing the port?   No
3. If this a USB dongle, are the FTDI Virtual COM Port drivers loaded?  I am not sure.  The USB cable is plugged into the Raspberry Pi.
And on another Pi USB port is a USB adapter called the explorer board that a Xbee is mounted on.
How do I make sure the FTDI Virtual COM Port Drivers are loaded?

I loaded the drivers last season when I was running Renard only controllers communicated via Xbees on the same PC that I am trying to setup Xlights from.

[sean]

You should post these questions over in the fop forum on falconchristmas.com. I am not an expert on the pi player. I only use e1.31 with my setup


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