WARN: Gap in models on pixel port 1 channel

[bartzzz]

I'm having a small problem with a new Candy Cane I added to my layout and sequencer.
It's a ChromaCane 50 from boscoyostudio.
As the name suggests, it contains 50 pixels.

When I open my controller and click "Visualise," something strange happens.
When I drag the Candy Cane to the controller port, the number of pixels should increase by 50, but instead, it increases by 600.
This then results in the following error codes:

WARN: Gap in models on pixel port 1, channel 3876 to 5077.
WARN: Gap in models on pixel port 2, channel 5076 to 5227.

What's causing this?
Could it be because I split my Mega Tree in two strings, on two different ports on my controller?

 

[AAH]

You can't put a different prop (easily) in the middle of 2 megatree strings. If you want to fill the port more you need the candy cane before the 1st megatree string or else do some fiddling with shadow models.

 

[bartzzz]

Thanks for the answer.
I have tried different things and came to this conclusion as well.
Because of the wiring I have added the Candy cane after the star, and this is working now.
For next years show I'll keep this in mind.

 

[Skymaster]

It's a limitation of the way xLights does it's channel allocations. All channels for a model must be contiguous.
By putting the Candy Cane in the middle, it gets allocated channels in the middle of the tree.
Sometimes it can be a pain to work around as you need to then cable differently.