Hi all. Thanks for letting me join the forum.

1. My first time doing a christmas light show. I am starting small (8Ch, 2 x Red & 2 x Green for 2 trees, 3 x yellow for 3 shrubs and 1 x multi for trellis). I am hoping to program my own sequence to Greg Lakes - Father Christmas. If I fail I will use one of the pre-built shows. My question is would any of the shows be suitable for this small set up or are some more suited than others?

2. Can the show sequencer be used to turn the lights on and off at set times i.e beginning and end of programmed shows.

Thanks

Hi 
i was wondering if anyone can give me the answer, i am using the SP10 show player to run my show, i have converted each file to a shp file and saved them to doccuments, i then copied all these files to my sd card, which all seemed to go well, once i put the card back into the SP10 and pressed the button the light part of the show was there but there was no music ?? what am i doing wrong ?
i can do it the other way as in when i go into show designer itself and go export to show player it then indeed will put the lights and music on but this takes anywhere between 10-20 minutes each song and when you have 37 do to this seems like a long way to do it also am concerned as it will use more room on the sd card wont it as it is using up memory x2 for one song as its copying lights then also music.
i would be greatful if there is someone who can help me with this one 
many thanks

Hello : have bought the plug and play pack. (SP10B Show Player (Plug and Play)  And works great! :
But. I was wundering if there is anny way that when show not playing. That only some of the lights can be on? Not al the 10 channels? Is there an way to do that? Program it? Or something. I can use computer, but would be great if there is an any other way to do it so i don’t need to have my computer plugged in the rest of chritmas

Hope for som answer or solutions

I'm just in the planning stages of making a pixel mega tree, do people use every hole in the mounting strips or every other? Also how many drops would you use on a 2 meter tree? 
Thanks in advance.

i may be the only one not to nitice, but the new LED boards , the connectors are opposite way around on Ch 1,3,5,7  , so if swapping the molex conectors between old and new boards they wont work ,  i had the 12v lamps , no issue just rewired , when i eventually twigged but need to be aware , just in case it takes you 2 hours ot notice the change :-)

I have just started trying out a few sequences with my new ethernet controller and 2 strings of ws2811 5v pixels (50 pixels).

In device manager they are all working fine and can be controlled individually.

However when in show designer and i select all 50 on, the last one in the string does not come on.  If i put both strings together the 100th does not come on but all other 99 do.

I'm using a 10amp psu for the controller and lights, this happens both when powering both strings from the controller output and when I inject power to the second string.

Any suggestions where I'm going wrong?

    First attempt, think it turned out ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSCCBAIBmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IYOWrNuZqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNLP9lSw7c

hi, i have created 5 shows on my PC. Every thing works fine. Have saved my shows and copied them to a USB stick as i will be running my show from a laptop.
When i load the shows on my laptop, the music file is missing??
anyone know why the saved show doesn't include the music file??

So I got the free let it go/ in to the unknown show. Opened it and opened a visulisation and then realised it was an old one. And I can't see a way to change it to the newer version I have saved. I know this is going to be a simple thing I'm missing.

Hi Again,

So I'm looking to get started with adding pixels to my display this year, just wanted to ask a few things:

Already found I will need to upgrade to the Pro software to run ethernet controller with existing DC ones.

Looking at the SL-4000 controller with 1000 pixel licence, and to start with probably 2 of the WS2811 strings each of 50 pixels. This will I believe require a 5v power supply to run the controller, I also read somewhere about powering each string individuallly / injecting power to each? Does this mean a seperate PSU for each string?

With the 2 external output ports I could put 1 string in each, and guessing that if I get extra strings in future they can just be connected onto the ends of the existing ones and programmed as required? e.g If I had say 4 different pixel items a few metres apart from each other I could just tell the software that "string A" is here and "string B" there, or would it all count as one item?

Sorry for so many questions but just want to make sure I know exactly what I need to get going!