Ok, won't be working in Vixen+ this year either.
Looks like I will be learning xlights like a pro in the next few weeks.
I did figure out my issue with doing a test of a DSC in the xlights test tab. I was only choosing channel 513, when I really needed to choose 513,514,515 as the DSC uses three pixelnet channels. Perhaps everyone else knew that from someplace that I never read, no hints on the wiki so I better figure out how to edit that and shorten some others learning curves.
Alan