Hi All!
Meant to put this on last year, but never got around to it.
I use an SD Card Controller as a network Master to control two DC08 controllers. These control LED light strings in my front garden (Roses, Shrubs etc. and an Arch). It frees up my laptop when I'm not doing a musical show, and gives a synchronised display all evening during the Christmas period. All I have to do is unplug the data cable and connect it to my laptop RS485 Data cable and set off the musical show when required (Plug & Play Data tails make this very easy).
The issue with this is you need to create short shows and export them to the SD Card. Each show needs to be less than one minute, and the total playlist can't exceed 2 minutes (or the lights 'hang' or start random patterns). I have three shows on the playlist and they loop all evening.
DC08 controllers are fed from 24v DC and the SD Card Controller is fed from an old BT Hub supply (12v DC).
Hope that helps some of you that are considering this, or have tried in the past, but experienced the 'hanging' lights or random displays.
Sandy

I have just been on the phone to the so called customer support for 30 minuets & was very disappointed in the lack of help & support, in fact I found the lady to be argumentative and arrogant, she was giving excuse after excuse as to why my 100 lights are not as bright as the 200 lights that I purchased at the same time & in the same color, I asked if it would have been possible to put that in the details of the product so we could’ve had the option of buying just the 200 lights so our singing faces lights would look visually the same, more excuses, I asked if they could give written instraction’s & all I got was “ lip syncing is very hard & that’s what the forums are for “& to just mess around with it   Then got conveniently cut off   Not impressed

SOS, I need help with this new version 3 that has the new lip sync application, there doesn’t seem to be any manual or instructions to get the best use out of it. It’s good in one way that you type in the text for your song choices but no one talks when singing a song,also channel 6 which is part of the mouth doesn’t seem to be used when trying to create the lip sync, how or what do you put in if you wawant to emphasize the word. Please guys can you give us Ann instructional video on just the singing elements of our show. Thanks

Does anyone know if it`s possible to program the Pi Player to do an hourly show? Infact I`m having lots of trouble trying to get the show to run from rc.local on startup.  Everything works fine from the terminal but nothing seems to happen when I run the script on startup?  I`m a programming novice to say the least so any help is appreciated.

Hi All, new to forum so bear with me please, i am just getting into lighting displays and it very addictive to say the least. has anyone any ideas for using the 240V 8 channel controller of how long this can be on for? Also, i am wanting to use the controller to control some 12/24v lights (Led Reindeer with moving heads) which are on plug in transformers, can i wire up a 4 way extension lead to one of the channels and control it like that, i have worked out that the max ampage is less than 2600ma total  for all 4 units, is this the best way or is there some other?

Many thanks in advance

I have just started setting up a new show, I have saved the file, however when I try to open it again I get the error:

Error Opening file - An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 71, position 32.

All I have done is set up 3 controllers with 8,3 and 6 channels respectively and set all on controller one on for 15 seconds.


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hello fellow programmers. 

If you have a new copy of windows 10 and if you are installing the software and having issues with net framework 3.5 or 4.0 and the software is asking you to download it but when you download it and you get an error saying something like this copy of windows do have that then here is the solution. 

You need to go to windows features which can be easily found by searching via cortana and check the boxes net framwork 3.5 and 4.0. Let windows update and download the relevant software then restart. Once you have done this then you should be able to continue installing the syncrolight software. 

Hi, I am using an syncrolight SD card controller for my pixels, I found that when first switching everything on the pixels don't do anything unless I take out then replace the SD card, then all works fine,  but once I switch everything off then the next time I go to run the show I again have to remove and replace the card before the pixels do their thing. Should this happen or am I missing something?
Phil

P.S. thanks for fixing my show selector its working fine now

I`m trying to export my show to .shp format for use with the raspberry pi show player.  When I go to export my show to a file (the desktop for example) the show designer tells me that the export is complete however I can`t find the subsequent exported file?!?!?

Help Appreciated!

Incidently I can export to .seq for an SD card with no problem? I`m a little stumped.

Hi all,

It's my second year with the ethernet controller for led strips.

This year, i meet the following problem with my configuration. When my controller (with the same parameters than the last year show) with the same strips on output 1 and 2, and for the test, one more on output 3 the led strips doesn't work...Some led blinking, sometimes i'm able to change colors off the first ou second led of the strip.

I do the following tests :
- Measure tension at the output card, power supply and strips beginning : 5,07V ok
- Take a new strip - done
- Put the ethernet cable directly on the pc, and on a little switch done
- Factory reset the controller done
- Modify ip range done
- Add two power supply done

I'm desesperate, have you an idea ?

(Sorry for my english, french are really bad in foreign language ;