Fresh Meat - Possible noob question

[pwalker]

It can be made to compile on the raspberrypi - but there are a number of modifications you need to do on the pi itself (manually compile a separate OpenGL library and more)  -  and even then it runs much too slowly to be usable anymore

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Thank you for the reasoned response.

Pat

[CaptainMurdoch]

Back to one of the original questions....

xLights, FPP, and Vixen are all separate programs by separate developers.  I think I am one of a few with commit access to both xLights and FPP and probably the only person who commits to both but that is only for an occasional bugfix in xLights, my time is 99% FPP.  The developers do talk though, much more closely between xLights and FPP, but we do also talk with the vixen guys as well (mainly FPP & Vixen).  I believe most of the xLights guys use FPP to play their shows and the FPP guys use xLights to sequence.  FPP does have an forum area where non-FPP developers can come to discuss integration, we hope to have a lot of good discussion there as we work on FPP v2.0 more in the coming months.

[pwalker]

Back to one of the original questions....

xLights, FPP, and Vixen are all separate programs by separate developers.  I think I am one of a few with commit access to both xLights and FPP and probably the only person who commits to both but that is only for an occasional bugfix in xLights, my time is 99% FPP.  The developers do talk though, much more closely between xLights and FPP, but we do also talk with the vixen guys as well (mainly FPP & Vixen).  I believe most of the xLights guys use FPP to play their shows and the FPP guys use xLights to sequence.  FPP does have an forum area where non-FPP developers can come to discuss integration, we hope to have a lot of good discussion there as we work on FPP v2.0 more in the coming months.

OUTSTANDING!!  This was one of the critical questions that I had that you just answered.  I was afraid to have multiple applications that may, or may not, play well (export/import) with each other.  I downloaded Raspberry  Pi FPP and xLights and have been familiarizing myself with the various feature sets.  Glad to see I made the correct choice.  Thank you very much for taking the time to explain to a new, but technically competent user.  I look forward to being a little more productive to the team.  Best regards!!

Pat