Ok I think I figured it out. It was sending the wrong (or none?) color scheme. The FPP color test showed it was RGB so I went to Your screen shot above and it was highlighted red, with port 0 and ws2811 selected. When I put in port 1 more slots opened underneath. It does not seem like I can fix...
No... it is not an error like that. So by default the colors RBG and Cyan are selected at the top for FAN effect. I deselect cyan, render, save, upload. My preview just shows the effects done in red blue and green colors like it should, but on the pi it is doing red, blue, green, and cyan.
So this is a very simple animation setup, in fact I was just creating a demo to test end to end effects on a wreath. My setup is a rasp pi B with a falcon pi hat and a string of 50 pixel lights. I set the string up as a wreath in xlights, and strung along several effects I wanted to test out. I...