Recent content by Gilrock

I wrote all the code to run the Pixies and there was only 16 ports at the time. The LOR Enhanced protocol is proprietary so I had to use packet sniffing to reverse engineer it the best I could. The protocol is not very efficient unless you are pumping a lot of the same color to the pixels. I...

Until they create a release its available in the Nightly build. Just go back a version or two.

Yeah I think we are finding out nobody does their own sequencing anymore because this crash only affected importing. Scott fixed it like a couple hours after release. It was apparently a new sorting option for the import dialog. It was tested on Mac and works fine but crashed on Windows...

Yes I added that capability 7 years ago. You need a board that interfaces to the servos and xLights talks to the board. There are many options out there. In xLights you use the Servo Model along with the Servo Effect. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LRjWVWVDh4

Yes its because no one ever wrote code to do that.

Yeah on my moving head branch I've removed the Y offset when pasting. Most of the time the new model needs to be at the same height so the Y offset always annoyed me. It also helps to learn to use the Align and Distribution right-click options. So I paste a bunch of models and then can...

I've seen it download corrupt before. The indicator for me was in File Explorer the .exe would not show the nutcracker icon when the file is corrupt.

I got my branch pushed to GitHub so if I get hit by a bus my couple hundred hours of work won't be lost. I swear this Moving Head work was as much time as it took me to get the initial 3D stuff working. I did a big write-up to try to let everyone know of the work left to be done, things that...

I get nervous about anything inside the house. One year I ran a string of pixels around the Christmas tree and then everyone started having these pixels issues and I quit doing it.

At this point I will trust Wally over someone that has only posted 1 message on this forum and never came back.

Our yards here are covered with rocks, the house is covered in stucco, and the roof is covered in spanish tiles. I don't worry at all about the controllers that are sitting out in the rocks....lol.

Yeah for a stolen package its not really the fault of the buyer, seller, or UPS. Any one of them is going to feel screwed if they eat the cost.

You guys "design" your shows? I just start hooking things up. Funny cause I'm a EE and the last thing I wanna do is pull out a calculator. If a fuse blows then I lower the brightness...lol. I remember in the early days I was running about 80% brightness cause I couldn't notice much of a...

Yeah that was an old post. I'm curious what happened because the owner of Wally's is my friend and I've never known him to be anything but polite. I always thought its the responsibility of the shipper to file a claim since they are the ones that made the deal with UPS. What did the UPS...

I thought I had a plan. Last night I was coding up how to handle RGBW and ColorWheel heads together. I thought I'll just figure out which head it is to capture the command. Then I realized the effect doesn't really work that way. The Moving Head Effect is storing what the settings are for...