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Tip Of The Day #038

Half the challenge when you first get into animated christmas lighting is the terminology and whats worse when you switch from one sequencer to another we change it all just to make it harder. So here are some key xLights terms defined as best i can. – A string – generally this refers to a…

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Tip Of The Day #037

If you are never planning controlling a large p10 panel over the network using e131 then don’t go creating a bunch of universes. Just add a null output instead.

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Tip Of The Day #036

Prior to 2017 models could not blend effects at all. In 2017 this was changed and any sequence you create now has this turned on by default but your old sequences have it turned off. To change the setting open up the sequence settings using the gear icon. The place most people stumble across this…

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Tip Of The Day #035

As of 2017.33 pay attention to the colour of your show folder name at the bottom left of the schedule window. If it is red xschedule can’t find your xlights_networks.xml file which it needs to know where to send the data to. This should be in your xlights show folder. If it is amber it…

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Tip Of The Day #034

If you are using #ipaddress:universe:startchannel format for your start channels … please note you only need to specify the ipaddress if you use the same universes on multiple controllers. If your universe numbers are unique then leave the ipaddress as the default any value … which then becomes #universe:startchannel.

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Tip Of The Day #033

So what do you do when your lights don’t work right. This is clearly a complex question and depending on symptoms you can jump to certain problem areas quickly but let me give some general advice. 1. Always start with the controllers test mode. If you can’t get your lights working using your controllers test…

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Tip Of The Day #031

To run xlights and have it open a sequence, render it, and then save an updated fseq file, and then close run xlights with the /r parameter followed by the xml file to open and render.

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Tip Of The Day #030

To quickly sort models in views open the display elements panel, select the view you want to sort and the right click on the list of models in the view and select one of the sort options.

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Tip Of The Day #029

When you are first learning the effects in xlights create yourself a 48×24 matrix and experiment on it. While you may not have a matrix seeing the effect on a matrix will help you understand how they work as xlights treats every model fundamentally as a matrix.

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Tip Of The Day #028

In the setup tab if you select multiple outputs you can right click on the outputs and from the Bulk Edit menu you can change all the selected outputs at once: – IP Address – set a unicast IP address or set it to MULTICAST – Channels – Description – Set the suppress duplicates flag

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