trouble with Falcon F16V3 controller

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Hello everyone! I hope everyone is being safe and enjoying their holiday season!  as the title suggests, I am having issues with my Falcon F16 V3, I can run the test  patterns on  everything, but when I try to  run the output from xLights, I get nothing. I gave up on the FPP player for now, just need to get my sequences running so my wife will get off my case. I've spent the better part of the last three weeks confined to the garage and my outdoor equipment setting this show up.

this is my second year using my falcon, and at first things were going well, but now my raspberry pi seems to have developed a mind of it's own.....I cannot log into the IP address that it displays, I'm thinking I don't recall entering the command prompt to make permanent the "IP address" of the fpp. but more about that later

I have two dedicated power supplies for the falcon, I added an expansion board this year and I have a separate box setup for power injection distribution to all my props requiring the added power.

I run a Cat5E cable to a "network hub" from my router, then a separate Cat5E cable from my laptop to the hub, I was running a separate Cat5E short cable from the Raspberry Pi to the " ETHO" jack on the falcon (when It was working) and then everything was working fine, a day later, I can run test mode, but nothing else.
anyone have any Ideas as to how I get myself out of this jam? at first I thought it must be a break in the cat5 cables, so I bought new ones....nope, still have problems. I plugged my laptop directly into the falcon, still only have test mode working.
please let me know if anyone has had, a similar problem, or what they have done to correct the problem.
I appreciate any help that could be provided. I've attached copies of my network files(hopefully these are the correct ones)
Have a Blessed day!
Ben Smith

[Rudy B.]

Can you access the Falcon config pages from your laptop? Maybe there's an ip issue between your laptop and the Falcon.

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Rudy,
Thats what I've been trying to do, but it won't connect. I took the raspberry pi inside and hooked up the HDMI cable to my TV and powered the PI up, watched it boot up, then display the IP address of "127.0.1.1" I've tried entering that IP address i n my browser several times.  every time I boot up the Pi, it gives a different IP address,

I'm going to re-image the sd card in my Raspberry Pi with the newest os tonight after work, and try resetting the IP address and see what happens there.

but I still can't get my falcon to output to lights, that's my real concern now. too late in the game to order a new Falcon F16V3 at this point....
thanks for the reply
Ben Smith

[Rudy B.]

Do you know the IP address of the F16v3? Is your laptop on the same subnet as your controller? If the controller has an IP of something like 192.168.1.4 your laptop's ethernet connection has to have an IP like 192.168.1.x.

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Rudy,
  a friend just told me to make sure the Oled isn't showing a different IP address, and to clear out any that are, could be behind the issue, I should be able to access the FPP via web interface in Xlights scheduler.
Gotta dig in once I get home from work and get this sorted out, the wife is having a meltdown over my long hours
obsessively working on these.
Thanks for the Input!
Ben Smith

[SNIPESCASTLE2]

Here are my settings pages, hopefully someone will find out what I have fouled up....
Thanks!
Ben Smith

[SNIPESCASTLE2]

Missed one....

[SNIPESCASTLE2]

Hello everyone!
Just wanted to let everyone know that I have
sorted out my problem. I?m to blame, and the old adage says it
all: ? Work smarter, not Harder!

I was reading way to much into setting up universes/channels, when all
I had to do was figure out the total number if nodes, multiply by 3, and divide
by 510.  I had 3,252 nodes, and needed like 19.12 channels, so 20 channels
Were needed for my display.
All I needed to do was select add ethernet
Select my controller/expansion board and input the IP address of the controller,
select auto size and full xLights control.
Upload inputs, upload outputs to controller and that was it! Boy do I feel like
?Charlie Brown? (peanuts Character for the younger folks)
I may have missed a step in explaining this, but it sure made fixing this so easy,
if I had only ?Read between the lines?
Have a Very, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Ben Smith

[K-State Fan]

19.12 universes not channels

Glad you got it working

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I Stand corrected!!!! Have a Very Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
Ben Smith & Family