Recent content by merryoncherry

Did you set a ruler object yet?

Take the google maps overhead and put it as an image under the house. That would cover your driveways, trees, and such. But not to worry ... you can always do these things later.

Thanks for posting this. If nothing else, it makes me sure that I'll keep using coro for snowflakes... but the peace/forest stakes are much more interesting. What we really need to figure out is how to make more stuff for seed pixels using 3D printing, as coro is pretty miserable for that.

So >$.10/hole?

That's already a good mix, to know what's missing it would help to see the layout. But a quick guess is spinners would be nice, not sure what HD spinners are available for laser cutting.

I adjusted the house to the grid size instead of grid to house but YMMV. I do not end up looking at the grid lines, but you can add more. I am not sure about it snapping or how useful that would be, most of the time xLights positions the center of everything (but there is an easy option to put...

Use the ruler (under 3D objects), then put real dimensions in on all your props. Also, if you scale the house model so xLights units easily map to real world units (mine is at 10 to the foot).

If you use a T junction (for data) then both sides of the tee will always do the exact same thing. This is because the pixel takes a colour off the data line and passes the rest of the data down to the next pixel and so on. So if you make two chains, they both do the same thing. The obvious...

There's a second thread about this - not uploading the controller certainly seems to be part of the issue... if that doesn't get fixed none of the other experiments are valid, really.

Let's review the settings. It certainly looks like the lights are connected up/down, so vertical is correct. Because you have 3 controller ports, 3 strings is correct. 20x40 = 800, so that number of nodes/string is correct. Where I think it might be wrong is the number of strands/string. There...

Well, try setting to 4 channel just to confirm... but yeah it is probably a different item than you are used to. I am guessing someone will want them though, even if you don't.

Those are rgbw? So 4 channels per LED instead of 3, if you apply all red say you would get a variety of colors including some mixed with white.

Or just plug the controller into the same network as the xLights PC... you can add more complexity later.

Wow, things have changed since I was a kid in PA... we had bang caps, sparklers, and those snake things, that was about all you were allowed. No roman candles or anything ... Anyone who had anything interesting had smuggled it from West Virginia.

Cannot argue with the price. The question is less "will it work" and more "what is the most pixels(current draw)+most distance that will work well".