Author Topic: Can I use the Lightorama Hardware with Xlights?  (Read 2218 times)

Offline shadow62672

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Can I use the Lightorama Hardware with Xlights?
« on: March 27, 2019, 09:50:39 AM »
Hello, new user, after using lightorama and purchasing a 16 ribbon CCR tree, I find that I am wanting to switch over to Xlights. Can I still use the hardware and the CCR ribbons with X-Lights? I want to run the Xlights with the lightorama stuff and build my own stuff. I apologize if I missed a thread that talks about this. I just want to know if I need to sell my LOR stuff or if I can incorporate it into the xlight builds.

Thank you for any help.

Offline keithsw1111

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Re: Can I use the Lightorama Hardware with Xlights?
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2019, 11:13:39 AM »
It depends on the controllers. Most work fine but you may run into lag issues with the pixies if you are running too many channels.


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Re: Can I use the Lightorama Hardware with Xlights?
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2019, 11:23:12 AM »
I ran several CCRs for a few years using xLights.  I recommend using the Hardware Manager to change them to DMX mode.  Its been so long I forget exactly what they call that but it makes it so they run on a normal DMX line only using 150 channels instead of 157 channels that contain the extra LOR macro channels.