Excellent vdeo John. This is really cool and I had no idea the Twinkly lights now work with xLights. My wife bought a twinkly tree and a bunch of other strands of twinkly for inside the house, so I have some strings to play with. Appreciate the video

If I can figure out how to control my 2 Twinkly Light Curtains with Xlights, I'll be in business.

Hi John , great video I’m currently using xlights on mac, my version doesn’t show twinkly in the protocol drop-down….. any ideas please?

Does anyone know if the issue with Mac XLights has been resolved?

hello i have 8 twinkly lights I too have the same problem with 1 or 2 freezing lights and disconnect how to solve the problem

For some reason I can't get a green light to show when setting up the twinkly controller. I notice I have a box that has "FPP proxy ip/host name below the ip address.

Great Video. Helped me get started. I'm using existing Twinkly lights with a mix of RGB versions and RGBW versions. Is there any way to get the RGBW versions to output the cool white to match the RGB versions? Thanks!

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

easy fix. Go into the model settings and there's a setting for handling white. Tell it to ignore the white channel.

@ericsd05

7 ай бұрын

Where do I find this setting? Cannot find it in X Lights? @@LightsOfElberfeld

@LightsOfElberfeld

7 ай бұрын

@@ericsd05 you won't see if it you're grouped with a rgb device because it's automatically turned off. When you are on a specific device though, and it's rgbw, you will have a second slider under color when editing an effect. Sliding it all the way to the left turns off the white channel.

Ich habe eine Dots 200 Kette. Möchte 100 Fenster 1 und 100 Fenster 2. Wie muss ich das bei xLights einstellen. Kann ich zwei gleiche Controller selbe IP Adresse verwenden. Controller 1 Start 1-300 und Controller 2 Start 301-600. Die Dots Ketten 200 sind zwei Ketten mit je 100 LED diese möchte ich getrennt programmieren.

Question about FPP. Can it just be downloaded to my computer or is it something completely separate? I’m trying to run my show through Xscheduler but I’m getting a lag. I wanted to try FPP.

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

You could run it as a virtual machine or they do support running it natively on a Mac, but the easiest way is to run it on a Pi or other supported single board computer.

So FPP isn't actually needed but it's a small footprint program that can run an XLights saved setup?

My RGBW Lights look way different than there RGB counterparts... How Do I fix this?

Good Video! How do you get the IP for the Twinkly Controller?

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You can either find it on your router or in the Twinkly app under "Devices" (little LED icon in the bottom right) then tap the settings cog on the one you want to use and the details will be shown for you.

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles you don't need to do that either. Twinkly lights show up when you click "discover" in the network tab.

Do this work with all versions of Twinkly lights? Do I need specific Twinkly firmware?

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

I’ve only tested with Gen 2 on the latest. But the software is free so maybe give it a go with xLights and check.

Twinkly recently added encrypted connections to their servers. Does that affect their ability to work with xLights? Twinkly Pro controllers have Ethernet connections instead of WiFi. Will those work with xLights as well?

Very interesting video, but what about the model? In case you wrap all that lights around the tree how are you going to model it in Xlights?

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

There's a few options: 1) You could guestimate it. 2) You could manually build a model. 3) You could use xLights to generate a custom model from a video/photo: manual.xlights.org/xlights/chapters/chapter-five-menus/tools/generate-custom-model#:~:text=The%20Generate%20Custom%20Model%20function,option%20from%20the%20Tools%20menu.

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles You could also import the model. Apparently you weren't aware but you can pull the models in through an import from controller button in the custom model's "model data" section.

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

@@LightsOfElberfeld I had tried that before I did this video but I couldn't seem to get it to work. There have been a lot of releases of Xlights since then though! Good to know its an option.

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles that is true. It was importing in the beginning but it was buggy and upside down at first.

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles it could be imported then, but even now, the button is hidden inside the model layout data. It was originally importing upside down but that was fixed pretty quickly.

I am new to this hobby. I have been learning XLights and everything I can from Utube videos. I don't have any knowledge in wifi. There is a-lot I don't understand with subnet and such. I live in the country so my wifi is lacking a-lot of speed. Do you suggest I take a class on ethernet wifi wiring or something else? I use Udemy mostly for classes. Thanks Dave new but willing.

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

That’s a tough question! I would suggest finding a “beginners” kind of thing as networking can get complex pretty quickly!

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

Depending on how many people need it I may look at doing either a video or series on networking for holiday light shows.

@NightshadeKc

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles Thanks for the quick reply John!!

@NightshadeKc

Жыл бұрын

@@johncoles Thats what I am looking for. Maybe with a DIG-Quad controller or Falcon f16 V3 or V4. Good Video

@spikegrimsey

Жыл бұрын

@john Coles hi there thanks for this informative video . I’m looking to do the same but using twinkly pro do you have any experience in this please ?

Im trying to make this work but my lights end up freezing and going back to the default effects

@LightsOfElberfeld

Жыл бұрын

you have to do two things: 1. don't use the mobile app at the same time adn 2. Make sure you're outputting to all lights in a group at the same time, if they are grouped. The primary light will shut off streaming to the others if you don't.

How do I find the ip address. Do I need to add to twinkly app then delete to find it.

@johncoles

Жыл бұрын

The twinkly app will show it or you can use the discover controllers option in xlights to try and find it automagically.

I keep getting ‘An error occurring opening output 1’ .. any idea on how to resolve it?

@thrill.seekerz.pyro.

Жыл бұрын

Hi, did you ever solve this issue? I am having the same problem. Thank you in advance

@pjs7971

Жыл бұрын

Im receiving the same error. It's possible the latest firmware of Twinkly is no longer compatible. But I would like to know if this error can be fixed. I see the green connection light in Xlights so it can ping the controller, but I can't get a sequence to output as I do receive this same error.

@eddieleblanc8728

Жыл бұрын

I’m having this issue also. I’m trying to use iOS and tried it on 2 different macs. Thought it may be an iOS issue

@eddieleblanc8728

Жыл бұрын

I finally got mine working! Not sure exactly what I did except updating my iOS to the latest version