xSchedule Replacement Available

cdjazman said:

I have used xschedule for years and one of the main reasons that I have been using it was the ability to run a sequence that showed the "number of sleeps" until Santa.

Click to expand...

Oh wow, I didn't know that worked for anyone... I tried it in 2021 (rookie year) and couldn't get it to go, so ended up re-rendering every night (didn't need to edit the sequence, used whatever expression feature in the text effect). Then I saw the electric bill and stopped running the controllers when the show wasn't running, and that was the end of my interest in "sleeps until Christmas".

Anyway, you can certainly put that request in GitHub issues for the project, but I am not sure how long it will be before we'd get to something like that.

can it sync multiple players?

Katekate said:

can it sync multiple players?

Click to expand...

Not yet, that's on the short list though.

Can it run on a Pi 4B / B+?

And is xScanner leaving as well? Will it be maintained separately?

DinoChickenSuit said:

Can it run on a Pi 4B / B+?

Click to expand...

It might. You'd have to have plenty of RAM and the latest 64-bit OS, then it might run.

DinoChickenSuit said:

And is xScanner leaving as well? Will it be maintained separately?

Click to expand...

Not sure how much love it will see, but it is separate here: https://github.com/xLightsSequencer/xScanner. What is your use case for it, do you just point it at the network and see what it says?

merryoncherry said:

What is your use case for it, do you just point it at the network and see what it says?

Click to expand...

yeah, I just use it for checking IPs

DinoChickenSuit said:

yeah, I just use it for checking IPs

Click to expand...

nmap/zenmap is an open source network scanner. It wont give you the "controller" level details that the xScanner understands, but it's great for working out what is on your network.

I have an updated CLI version of a scanner that I haven't published, and it is controller aware. It emits JSON but could make a pretty HTML report with links to the controller web pages easily enough. Should have in my GH after a bit more testing, need to turn it loose on the lab network, not the home network.