DiyLightAnimation
Software => xlights => Topic started by: arw01 on November 01, 2013,
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Blew out one SSC, think it touched my helping hands while running a test cycle from xlights.
Made up a second SSC and made sure that one was away from the metal.
Running the different test sequences like chase don't look like the render properly on the flex strip I got from Ray.
I've attached some videos that I shot the wrong orientation, sorry I'm a photographer not a videographer!
First one is 20131031_1-3_chase this is a 1-3 chase from the test part of xlights.
http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_1-3_chase.mp4 (http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_1-3_chase.mp4)
second one is curtain effect, that does not work what so ever
http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_curtain.mp4 (http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_curtain.mp4)
and the third is supposed to circles
http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_circles.mp4 (http://www.webbyhome.com/20131031_circles.mp4)
Some hints on what I may have programmed wrong or do we think it's something else?
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What settings did you use in the Smart String Utility? Did you use hybrid?
I don't have that style of nodes so I am not sure how they respond.
Rick R.
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Looks like the kind of thing hybrid would do to you. I have had hybrid on a lot of stuff in the past since it helped me transistion my old sequences to RGB, but this year when getting ready for Halloween I removed hybrid and everything worked a whole lot better.
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What settings did you use in the Smart String Utility? Did you use hybrid?
I don't have that style of nodes so I am not sure how they respond.
Rick R.
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Looks like the kind of thing hybrid would do to you. I have had hybrid on a lot of stuff in the past since it helped me transistion my old sequences to RGB, but this year when getting ready for Halloween I removed hybrid and everything worked a whole lot better.
When I had trouble with them and went back to programming and had hit that little ? on the side to see what hybrid was, since it indicated it could do DSC and single node I decided to stay away from that and stay just with single nodes until I had it all tested out and understood.
I think I took my node count down to 100 in the end when I figured out that was a large enough number to light the whole string and not use extraneous channels. Initially, I had choose 50, which only lit a portion of the string.
Alan
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Changing the light type in the SSC programming utility to RIGID STRIP solved the problem completely.
These are the WS2811 Flexible strips from Ray.
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As far as I know the light does not do anything other than change the color selection order and the new "soon to come" version will not have a light type selection but a color order selection - RGB, GRB, BGR, etc
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As far as I know the light does not do anything other than change the color selection order and the new "soon to come" version will not have a light type selection but a color order selection - RGB, GRB, BGR, etc
a much more flexible approach.
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<fp.
From the video's I posted, sorry again about orientation, I would have to say it's not a color order issue, the middle one just has absolutely nothing for results. Changing the strip type solved the problem and I've moved onto my next learning curve!
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What chip type do these strips have in them?
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WS2811, and they work fine once you change the flexible strip type.
I have not found a really nice yellow or orange in the sliders yet. I may have to crack open photoshop again and write down a little table of rgb values to start playing from.
I also need to figure out an easy wiring way to measure the amp draw on a string with full white to see how long of a DSC string I can, wait for it, wait for it, STRING together.. ha ha got the pun.. <wd..