I posted this in another subject, so please feel free to delete whichever is in the most inappropriate location.
[/size]We have been having a lot of trouble with our internet service, so we had a tech come out for the 1 millionth time and finally got one who was literally willing to spend hours with me tracking the problem. What we found was that 100% of the time I ask X-Lights to “output to lights” our entire internet dies and the network crashes down to a crawl. I am no longer able to control lights through our Falcon F16V3 1 controller/X-Lights setup except for test, which works just fine. I can hook everything up, test the FPP, run X-Lights, even build a new sequence, but as soon as I output to lights, everything is gone. I can’t even get a speed test to work because it times out. The tech and I checked all the provider’s hardware and settings and everything we could think of such as too many devices, specific devices, changing from 5G to 2.4G, isolating the controller entirely, etc., but the only thing that caused the crash was asking X-Lights to control the lights. Nothing else. The controller has no problem running the lights in test mode over the network or just connecting the laptop directly to the controller, but enabling controlling the lights means I’m goobered. We put a lot of effort making our home a safe place for all of his friends to congregate and since it’s not unusual for him to have 4 or 5 friends over, each with their phones and a few laptops, so we pay for 200Mbps and usually get it and sometimes appreciably more. Last year we only had half of that bandwidth and there was no trouble even controlling the show wirelessly through the network. No interference, no lag, no anything detrimental. Unfortunately though, I got very ill last year just as it was time to put the lights up and wound up without 90% of our show. So this year I am trying very hard to have everything completely finished in the next month or two so I can relax a while and the worst thing that can happen is our 18-year-old son puts everything together this year when it’s time.
[/size]Has anyone else ever seen this problem? What kind of settings could possibly cause this? I sent in a bug report and do not know how to post my settings, but if they are needed I am happy to learn how to do it.
[/size]I always feel obligated to mention I am disabled to begin with, so I am only capable of devoting small snippets of time here and there to work on this. It was anxiety/stress that put me on disability to begin with, so I am struggling in more ways than my ego likes to admit. Every forum I’ve ever been involved with has been incredibly good to my family and I, so I wish you all the very best and if anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.
