Recent content by burto51

Thanks kimbo, Venting, The singing trees eventually stopped flashing and seemed OK, nothing had changed, the group of spiral trees continued to play up, will look at replacing nodes tomorrow; no problems just another lot of nodes I need to replace, garage outline stopped during testing today...

Well after a lot of work, again this year, turned the lights on tonight, and see above. For example Have two singing trees with the correct face definitions, checked, sharing a power supply with three spiral trees, ( two power leads) the trees and the spiral trees are on different ports, with...

Yes I'd second that Zdigital has been great, your music is stored so that you can go back and re-download if you lose the track/album.

Hi, had similar a couple of times yesterday, after a short period of on; my F16v3 OLED screen went blank, although the controller operated normally. I checked for an ethernet failure but nothing it did this a couple of times. Today I was chasing another problem not controller related, and had...

This a photo of the culprit

Fixed the problem, rather the brains trust on zoom did, I had a Null Pixel (which I thought was a F amp) on the controller port due to the length of the data cable. Removed the culprit and all good. Thanks to all for your suggestions.

Hi, The model is a Boscoyo Singing bulb downloaded in the layout page. followed wiring diagram with download. Have also tried a string of 100 new nodes totally separate to the model, laying on the floor connected to same port as the bulb would have been, colourwash works fine, when I select...

Thanks Mike, When I do the test using Tools, Test and select nodes for the model. If I click on node 1 it does not light, if I deselect node 1 and select node 2, a node lights up only problem is that it is the first node in the string which is not node 2, if I then continue to select each node...

Hi, Using ws2811, standard 3 wire RGB 12 volt. Thanks

Hello, this has me frustrated. Have 3 singing bulb elements all daisy chained, using a F16v3 and xLights version 23.20 . Each element has 143 nodes with a count of 429 showing on the string output page of the falcon. When doing the face definitions, end up one node short, that is, nodes 1 to 142...

Hi watched your video, well done for the first year, your house and yard provide lots of room and opportunities for expansion. All the best for your future displays; each year you will continue to improve on the last. Burto

Its fine to say that Canberra; is only 3 hours from Sydney while that is true . What about those who travel from the Hunter Valley, Newcastle and the Mid North coast or the New England ? Sydney is 3 to 4 hours away from me, and is probably central to most attendees. My views for whats its worth...

Hi and welcome to the madness, yes its a steep learning curve but if you take little steps you will find that it is very rewarding. have a look at the Aus christmas manual 101. Lots of info in there. Also lots of help and advice here and on zoom. You need help just ask Burto Wingham

Fortunately, LOL I migrated from Sydney in 1986, so cannot help with facilities, however; a couple of ideas at least. I worked with Tafe for 30 years, it was common practice to have community organisations and in my case vehicle manufacturers to be able to use the facilities eg classrooms at...

A mini is a gathering of members where all things lights are discussed, well worth attending, is usually held in NSW in sydney. Old hands and new folk all learn something new and put faces to the names.