A little confused - seeking help please

[loopmail]

It could be related to using a universe size of 510 vs 512 inconsistently.

ok, where have I done that? this si all new to me and if I've done that, I've not meant to.
where would I look to find that?

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

That’s on the xLights controller settings and WLED app. Try swap the channel per universe count to 512 on xLights. Not sure if WLED work like that, let me check.

 

[loopmail]

True @David_AVD , @loopmail try split the universe where univ 2 start at section 4 becoming part of the arch.

Can you give me a tip on how to do that?
I can get the arch to start on universe 2, but I'm unsure of how to get section 4 to start on Universe 2, as its part of the window frame model?

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

Your setting is correct, WLED just support 510 channels per universe.

 

[David_AVD]

A standard DMX universe is 512 channels, but a lot of the time a universe size of 510 channels is used as that's 170 pixels.

I have no idea which size your controller uses, but you'll need to find out and set xlights to be the same.

 

[loopmail]

You have lights using 510 channels per universe. You don't have the pixel stick using 512 do you?

I can;t see anywhere in the wled portal to set it.

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

I can;t see anywhere in the wled portal to set it.

Open WLED app in LEDSettings, sent screenshot.

 

[loopmail]

Screen shots of wled led setup page

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

Screen shots of wled led setup page

Your count in post #6 sums 230 WLED is set to 240. Can you re check whats the correct led count?

 

[loopmail]

From post #6
Top 46
Right 46
Bottom 46
Left 46
Arch 56

That's 240, i ran it through the calculator 3 times to check? how did you get 230?

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

Arch, i counted as 46. My bad.

 

[loopmail]

Arch, i counted as 46. My bad.

all good. i just wondered how it got to 230? but I can't point fingers, I couldn't count 4 sides of a square before.

Any other suggestions?

is it possible the controller is just braindead and a reflash might fix it?

 

[Jorge Bolivar]

I spend hours with similar issues last year that just read WLED make me sweat.
Try separating the universes,
Window = univ 1-2 (552 ch) 1 universe is 510, here maybe the issue...
Arch = univ 3 (56 ch)
Star = univ 4 (30 ch)
On xLights controller setup raise the universe counts to 4.
On xLights layout setup use star channels by universes not the end of the previous model.

 

[loopmail]

Star is on it's own Node MCU and working fine. the window was presenting this behaviour before I added the star.

Currently (as a previous suggestion from here) i have the arch as the start of universe 3 and use that as the reference point.

The window is the first item in the chain. it's using universe 1 &2

 

[David_AVD]

I'm using ESPixelstick firmware on my wireless controllers with no universe boundary issues.