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[QUOTE="Cee DeLights, post: 99787, member: 28793"] Hi everyone, Noobie here and first time getting into controlling my Christmas lights, so please be kind :) I'm just using standard Christmas lights (Bunnings/KMart/BigW) which I had lying around for many years. I've hacked the MFC so they are all constantly on. I'm also using some spotlights and flood lights. These are connected to my Raspberry PI running Vixen and triggered using SSR Relays and synced to music. Works perfectly well with the spotlights and flood lights. However, I found that the transformers in the Kmart/Bunnings MFC causes a slight delay of half a second or so between when the Vixen beat sequence triggers and when the actual lights "turn-ON". I can get away by off-setting the beats/bars timing marks using Audacity, then import into Vixen. For example, create the beats timings then shift the timings forward. Not the most elegant and also means the lights turn-OFF sooner. Is there a setting in Vixen or XLIghts (or any other) that allows you to add some kind of off-set timing for a particular channel? Perhaps something like: Channel 1,2,3 = Offset Lead Time 0.5 second Thanks and Merry Christmas. Chris. [/QUOTE]
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