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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 #032

Render order is a pretty fundamental concept you need to understand. 1. Model render order is controlled by the master view. Other views can have the models in different orders but when it comes to rendering the master view is all that matters. 2. Effects on layers of a model/group/submodel render from bottom of the…

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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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Tip Of The Day #027

Lots of users seem to be confused by the setup tab and its relationship to models and universes etc so I thought I would try to explain how this all works under the covers. You may need to read this a couple of times but I think it will help you get what is going…

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Tip Of The Day #026

When testing from xlights without your USB controllers connected xlights will get an error when you turn on output to lights when xlights tries to open the USB device. To suppress these right click on the USB output in the setup tab and deactivate it. The output will then be greyed out so it is…

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