I am not asking for help or anything -- just reporting my experience to share with others.
For me, once I get into xlights ... I'm not really able to go back to LOR to make any fixes if I find problems with my original LOR .lms sequence.
My original 26 MB LOR .lms file returned from xlights (export to LOR) as a 177 MB .lms file for all 32 universes.
On the plus side:
- I can open it in LOR
- It is in 32k channel order (kind of nice)
- It has channels labeled, provided I have a model defined for those channels
- its pretty nice to see the detailed sequencing information -- I have a snowflake channel going nuts on one song, it confirms that this sequencing exists
(but the problem is I don't know where this "ghost" sequencing came from ... its not in the original LOR .lms sequence and I didn't apply any models in xlights
against that channel range (that I'm aware of) ) ... this might be an issue with xlights, or might be an issue with one of my models
UPDATE: solved ghost sequencing, I was adding sequencing in xlights to these spinner but it didn't like the model type I used. I changed the model type and now they are all sequencing properly !!
On the downside:
- lost all groups and organization within LOR
- some objects not in contiguous channels are going to be difficult to find
- it seems that if/when I re-import back to xlights ... then I will lose the xlight sequencing information (models, timings, etc.)
- seems that LOR no longer has any information on channel #, a device type or a universe# ... just channel name labels [ xlights may not need this info? ]
- the biggie: the re-import of the 177MB LOR .lms into xlights doesn't appear to work ... even using the straight .lms file created by xlights export (without any mods)
It does appear I might be able to create a LOR config file in LOR to organized this 32k galaxy and import that config in ... since it appears the .lms files from xlights will always be in 32k pixelnet channel order from 1 to 32k.
Anyways, just sharing this because I knew the marriage would not be perfect. I'm really not sure its practical for this many channels to go back to LOR just to fix a few things ... as when I return to xlights ... I then lose the metadata I had there on how xlights sequenced things. Again, trading one problem for another.
In my head, it feels like it would much better (some day) ... if I could just go back and just repair/replace the original LOR .lms file ... then redo the "bolt on" to the xlights .xml for that song (like you can do with a new musical sequence .mp3 and an xlights .xml).
NOTE: I did try to re-import back into xlights from the xlights_exported .lms file ... and it imports but nothing happens ... it asks for the models and then no timing events created ... its basically toast upon the re-import into xlights. So I don't think fixing and re-importing works ... at least not for a giant 32k sequence.
Scott