DiyLightAnimation
Software => Light Elf Software utilities => Topic started by: thebaronn on March 24, 2013,
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Hello
I am working on an Easter show and also running tests for the new year. This year I had many issues with the LSP Scheduler and I am trying to get my show to run with xlights.
I followed the instructions here: http://diylightanimation.com/index.php?topic=9943.0 and everything seem to install just fine.
When I imported a sequence the import screen just says error and i get this error in the comand line prompt:
What did I do wrong? Please help!
Thank you
Eric
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Eric, hopefully Frank will chime in here. What is the exact command that you are giving. I will see if I can help, but Frank had to help me in the beginning.
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When I open LightElf, I get the screen where you can open a sequence and a cmd dialog box. I open the Beethoven Virus 2013F and the green status bar moves from empty to full rather quickly and then says error. Then when I look at the cmd box that picture is what is left.
I am probably doing something completey stupid and screwing everything up.
When I get home I will uninstall everything and follow thos instrauctions again.
Is the current version lightelf 9.0?
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Yes I believe that .9 is the latest version. So you do get Light elf opened and can import your sequence? The error occurs when you export it? Am I following you correctly?
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Under the options area have you set your directories up?
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rdebolt: I did not get a chance to work on it last night. But I can olen lightelf and select the sequence and that is as far as i get.
twooly: hmm.... The fact that you mention "directories" means more than one? I only set up the xlight directory (cause that was what the program said to do to make sure the network setup was there) maybe that is my problem. I will check it out.
Thank you
Eric
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Yeah under options-settings you need to set both the xlights and temp dir. Your error looks like the temp dir is not set.
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Now that you say that, I know for a fact I never set a temp directory.
Like I said, I am a genius!
Thank you
Eric
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Let us know how it works out!
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Hello!
I changed the directories and added a sequence.
It has been analyzing for 20 minutes. The msq file is very large at 108GB (large for lsp standards)
The status bar has not moved at all.
Am I being impatient?
Thank you
Eric
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HAHA!! Spoke too soon!
I received an memory error!
Am I finished?
I assume this is a 32bit program? If so what file should I manipulate to use more memory? Python?
Eric
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It gets right up to the 2G mark and the quits....
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Ok, small fix.
I allowed python to use more than 2GB of memory and now it seems to be working. It spiked a 2.1GB and then drops down and then seems to be holding at 1.7GB and the green bar is actually growing! The program is 5 min further into conversion then before (I have been used to timing processes since all the memory issues I had with LSP and LOR) and so it is either working, or just messing with me out of spite!
LOL!
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Okay I think I was able to get it going.
After I allowed for more memory it processed the file and I exported it just fine. xlights read the file and played it.
It was all jacked up though..I don't know if it is an xlights problem or lightelf...
My lightelf log files is 300MB....
Are they always this long?
Or is there an issue?
Thank you again!
Eric
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Glad you got it going. I am not sure about the log files, but if the sequence is 3g I could see that happening.
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That is a huge log file. It would tend to make me think that a lot of potential issues were flagged.
One thing that helps the conversion process go smoother is to use more controllers in your sequence. LSP breAks each controller into a separate file.
The first issue you hit was probably due to one controller with a large channel count. That is usually what pushes you over the memory cap. You can install 64 bit python and wxpython to work around this but the conversion will be slow.
The app will process as many controllers in parallel as you have cores so it will generally run smoother with more controllers.
Take a look at your log file and post a snippet here.
Frank
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Okay, I think I posted the log file in the other thread.
I am losing my mind!!!
LOL! There is a 64 python? So i did it the heard way and got the 32 to use more than 2GB? Awesome!
Conversion took about an hour.
The files shows all kinds of issues, but I have no clue what they mean.
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The problem is that my code has to "guess" what you want to do. So I structured it to treat Zones in LSP like networks in xLights.
So Zone 3 tells my code to add the configured max channels in Xlights networks 1 and 2 to the channel number defined for the current controller.
Working with multiple technologies makes this some what difficult.
I recommend that you put all LOR controllers in Zone1. Then place all e.131 controllers in zone 2. Fro your e131 you can just number channels in increasing order.
Then in Xlights configure your networks with your LOR network first followed by all of your e.131 networks. You can have as many e.131 networks as you require.
The error you are seeign in your log is because the code is adding
maxchan.net1 + maxchan.net2 + currentchannum
And that value is greater than the number of channels configured in your xlights network file.
Regards,
Frank
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Okay, I will change the LSP file around.
Regarding the test tab on xlights. I cannot get any of the Firefli to light up? I have the 2 firefli working in Legacy mode and they do not light up at all. Is the xlights setup contingent on a sequence? Or once I set everything up is it just there?
All the E1.31 channels are spot on when I test them.
I will change my LSP file again to see if I can get this problem solved.
Thank you
Eric