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Tip Of The Day #052

While multicast is a perfectly acceptable way to set up your show network I would generally recommend against it: 1. Multicast on 99.9% of home networks is actually broadcast … so every controller is seeing every universe … on large shows this is a serious problem. 2. Wifi networks are particularly bad 3. It is…

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Tip Of The Day #051

Running xLights on a machine with multiple network connections such as WiFi to your home network and a wired connection to your show network can cause issues … particularly using Multicast. When xLights tries to send out its data the operating system chooses the network connection to use … and it may not be the…

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Tip Of The Day #050

Navigating quickly in the sequencer can save a lot of time … Scroll Wheel – scrolls models up and down Shift + Scroll Wheel – scrolls time left and right Ctrl + Scroll Wheel – zooms in and out Page up/down – scrolls models up and down Up/Down arrows – moves selected effects between layers/models…

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Tip Of The Day #049

To change a colour in the colour panel you just click on the colour and a colour picker will appear which you can select from. But you can also right click on the colour … which gives you the Colour Curves dialog. This lets you create gradients. Click/double click on the gradient to add colour…

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Tip Of The Day #048

The video effect will display a solid colour … rather than your video based on what is going on … Red – Indicates there has been some sort of error displaying the video. Run check sequence which will normally tell you why. Most common reasons are the video file was not found, the model is…

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Tip Of The Day #047

VU Meter has lots of inbuilt types with cryptic names … so here is your decoding guide: Triggers: Timing Event – These types require you to select a timing track. At the start/end of every timing interval the VU meter will trigger and take an action. Level – These types use the sensitivity setting as…

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Tip Of The Day #046

If you have setup issues between xlights/fpp/controllers then please post them to this group or the xlights forum … don’t send them direct to the developers or other experts here via private messages. Posting here you will get faster answers and generally better answers as you will find people who use the same mix of…

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Tip Of The Day #045

When exporting presets did you know that you can export multiple presets in a single xpreset file. Just organise them in a group and then select the group before you press the export button. When the preset is imported it will create a group with all the presets in it. As a bonus if you…

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Tip Of The Day #044

On top of the ability create intricate custom submodels by selecting which pixels to include … sometimes you just need to break a model up into vertical or horizontal slices … and that is where the generate button on the submodel dialog comes into its own. Just specify how many slices you want, which way…

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Tip Of The Day #043

Much of what people have historically kept spreadsheets to document about their displays may not be required when you use xLights. – The Tools/Export Models menu item exports all of your model/controller data into a CSV file … for those times when you really need to see all your controller and model configuration in a…

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