ok, I really don't understand how everything was working Saturday night just fine, but last night have trouble. I didn't power down over night either. zues were powered, as was the rest of my controllers. come home today and did some trouble shooting, swapping pics with known working pics, swapping light strings, same issue with string 7 on zues 1, it will respond to the sequence i am running but flash white in between each pass of a spiral effect and stay lit. 14 wasn't working at all but reflashed the pic and it worked.
zues 2 had the rainbow effect that sam is referring to. when I would power up the zues all the channels would come on with the rainbow effect and not respond to a sequence or xlights. I know my setup is right because i was going threw different effects Saturday when I first got it going and was showing the wife what it could do and why I spent so much time building the tree(well worth it!) I would say the leads to first node are more like 5 feet. some pics on zues 2 would not respond today. . I am pulling them both back in the garage and I am going to do all the pics again and start over. will post back with the results.