Recent content by merryoncherry

If you are talking about next year, and you have a specific song in mind, then you should look into a custom sequencer like @Zuseleets. Some of them are also very good at giving layout advice. If it is for this season, trust us, all the custom sequencers are done for the year (and have been...

What do you mean by "music-included"? There are lots that go to music, but usually it is your responsibility to acquire the matching music. (Music distribution is a messy business indeed.) But, just two purchases instead of one. See https://xlights.info

Your real data is in the show folder (xlights_networks.xml, xlights_rgbeffects.xml, various .xsq, .xsqz, .zip, images, media, and so on). Deleting the program files would not affect that at all, but you can back it up to be sure.

What brand?

Did you make an xLights layout yet? If you did, maybe we can take a quick look and give you pointers. IMO LoR is not that much easier, the tricky bit with xLights is ignoring all the complicated advice and taking the simplest paths.

In addition to what Ryan says, some (but far from all) of the controllers can play in standalone mode without any added player or Pi and need no network at all once they are loaded up with sequences. Again, some of them won't remember what time it is if you turn them off and back on... if you...

Haisstronica marine grade (🙄) solder seals and a butane hand torch, whether it is temporary or permanent. (Note that I live in a relatively cool, dark place.) This has never been the source of any significant number of failures. In the few cases where I soldered and heat shrunk, the...

The vendor of the pixels on the left advertised that his pixels had the thickest wire you could find anywhere, so I sent him this photo. Then he said it was the thickest wire you could possibly put on a 4- wire pixel, so I showed him that the pigtail wire to the first pixel was thicker than the...

Bwahaha - no. We joke about it being CWG (Chinese wire gauge). You will not find anything bigger than 20, a lot of it is 22-24, but you might find seed pixels with as little as 26-27AWG. They do not tell the truth, and nobody does anything about it except laugh. The good pixels will suffer 1...

Wow, I have to keep an eye out for that ... the only pixel I can get delivered right now for ~$.17 is plain resistor pixels from ScottLED (USA).

Analysis paralysis, one of my favorite games. There are so many dimensions one can look at: voltage tolerance, brightness, color reproduction (gamma, RGB vs RGBW WW A UV etc), reliability, efficiency, form factor and other mechanical considerations, price, availability, connectors, protocol...

That is entirely true. Other than Ali / manufacturer direct as others have mentioned, the only place for US-based stock seems to be YPS. https://yourpixelstore.com/product/new-yps-duo-pixel-12v/ I run a few thousand of the duos. There are reasons 8208 haven't really taken off, despite...

One option is change the effect to "per preview" instead of "default". You can also rotate the model data but that has its own hazards.

They're 3-wire, not 4-wire? (Maybe xLights needs the usual upload to controller and rerender.)

Light up every 20th one green and every tenth one red or something, that will help you see how many meters/pixels pretty quickly and you won't have to manually count them, except the last few if you care to be that accurate.