Thank you Keith, great info. I've been fortunate enough to help other people getting started this year and it is a great feeling. As you said this is an amazing community.
@74armonde
3 жыл бұрын
Slowing down and letting the Zoom room guide me has been my achilles heel for sure. This is an amazing video. Thank you Keith!
@MrKnoxkid
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another informative video. I appreciate all of the time you spend on Xlights.
@pomonabill220
2 жыл бұрын
I am JUST starting with Xlights/Falcon/pixels/props and can't wait to get started!!!! I have some pixels, and have ordered some props, and am waiting for the Falcon F16V4 to become available. I have done tons of research and youtube videos so I can become a little more proficient with things, and your video was very helpful, along with my electronics background and troubleshooting skills. I think by Halloween/Christmas 2022, I should have something in the front yard, but will take it slow at first. After all, an operating show, even if small, is better than tons of lights and props that don't really work well.
@RLeeErmy
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this Keith. As an Xlights newbie, I can use all of the pointers I can get. Jeff at Cannispater Christmas said I needed to watch this one.
@stephengill2211
3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see all help available.I am on my second year with ws2811 pixels boy is it learningg curve for us 70 year Olds. I do my displays at the moment with Arduino Uno and nano.just done 13 boysco trees.programmed Uno for tree nano for star then all I do is run out a power supply. Works for me.
@denn450
3 жыл бұрын
its amazing room zoom the guys help me out last week with my pixlite controller setting my mega tree and matrix and star you were right when you say it could take weeks trying to do it yourself when you are new to this like me i really like what you are doing i thank the guys again you rock zoom room the adavtek guy thats what they call me
@simongiles8154
3 жыл бұрын
Thank You, New Hobby going to be fun & all Help Welcomed...
@someguy3248
3 жыл бұрын
I think you were talking about me when talking about hard to configure controllers F16-V1 on the "Not cuttng your losses" slide. 😀
@Keithwestley
3 жыл бұрын
Actually I wasn't ... but now you mention it.
@Darkstalker834
3 жыл бұрын
I started with strips about 5 years ago. I have not had to many problems with them. Next year they will be getting switched out for pixels. I do have 3 strips I leave up year round. I use them for different lights all year round. I will be sad to loss that for sure.
@JamieStuff
3 жыл бұрын
3-2-1 Backup - 3 copies, 2 different media types, 1 copy off site. Maybe a USB thumb drive and a cloud site (Dropbox, etc.).
@ibiubu99
3 жыл бұрын
Is the Zoom room the button on a lights.org? How do I find the scheduled times for the Zoom?
@Keithwestley
3 жыл бұрын
At this time of year there are people in there almost all of the time. If not one is in there wait 15 mins and try again.
@redghostoutdoors2359
3 жыл бұрын
Hey Mr. Keith, so I made a mistake. This will be my second year to work with xlights and pixels. I was playing around with xlights and must have hit something, and my canvas screen disappeared.😧 I have wrote in some forums, and missed the zoom meeting tonight. Everything else is still there. Just the window where the music wave and effect sequence would be. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sorry to bother you. I know this time of year is hectic for you.
@Keithwestley
3 жыл бұрын
Zoom is open all the time. People are in there at least 18 hours a day at this time of year.
@morrydavis
3 жыл бұрын
keith last year was my first year and everything was fine this year I decided to add a mega tree. I am using a teensy 3.2 with octows2811 and was only using 4 ports of the teensy and had it set to 1200 pixels per port and 4800 total so thought it would be easy just up the PixelCount to 6000 and use the 5th port of the octows2811 so I built a 800 led tree with 30 led start on top making a total add of 830 new leds. All seemed to work fine but then I noticed parts of my tree were lighting up when it shouldn't be. I have overlap checking on in xlights so I know I don't have any channel overlaps. So to be sure I rendered some of my show with out putting any effects on the tree at all yet bits and pieces of my tree light up anyway xlights doesn't show these but when I play on fpp it does. Any tips on how to track this issue down much appreciated. I tired using test display in FPP and lightup the leds of one port at a time yet I see some leds that are on the new port I added coming on when i turn on one of the other ports.
@Keithwestley
3 жыл бұрын
There really isnt enough information there to troubleshoot and to be honest this is not the right forum to do so. I would suggest you use the facebook group/nutcracker forum or best of all zoom.
@RyanHarnwell111
3 жыл бұрын
what is a remote?
@Keithwestley
3 жыл бұрын
A remote is a small $20 board that can be placed up to 100m from your controller to drive pixels. It is generally most useful in displays where props are quite distributed.
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