xLights + WLED for Music Synced Christmas Light Show Creation
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- Опубликовано: 15 дек 2019
- If you want your lights synced to music then you want xLights. It's a feature rich program, but you can start simple and build slowly. Here's my first "How-To" video for xLights.
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so my 30+ years of designing and firing fireworks displays, will come in handy here wooohooooo
I am just getting started in the Christmas LED game and your videos helped me a lot. I really appreciate it. Looking forward to your xLights Part 2 video!
Dr.zzs you rock. You just made me happy camper when it comes to trying to figure this out with xlights and making my wife happy with her Xmas lighting wants....spent an hour configuring the esp8266’s with WLED, HA and xLights. Biggest headache was trying to get the universes and nodes correct for my strips of 300neopixels. But it’s done. Now to order 8 more strips.
Thanks Dr Zzs, just got all my parts and got my ledstrip running with a nodemcu AND on the same night got xlights running to thanks to you! Love your video's, you really helped me out with all the parts and explaining how thing work in a simple manner. You really got me addicted to led and wled, i've got a whole lot of hardware comming from aliexpress ;). Thanks again en keep those video's coming :)
Love your videos. Watching your original wled video has really gotten me hooked on building an awesome LED display! Can't wait to see more. Thank you for all your time!
You have no idea how excited it makes me to find out that I can use my various ESP connected LED strips with xLights. Previously I thought I had to wire things back to DMX controllers which had put me off. This is awesome!
Agreed. I was watching another YT video and thought to myself I’m never going to figure it out. BAM this video is my savior
Excellent job! Your use of overlays with spreadsheet is extremely helpful!
This was a perfect startup guide. Wonderful work, and entertaining!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your video on the ESP8266 and wled got me hooked on this, and this is what I've been looking for, for a while. Kudos
DrZzs !!!! Brilliant explanation - Im a long way off this point of music sync, but this is my goal many thanks !!!
Thank you so much for such a simple explanation with extra explanations where you were confused. Buying some nodemcus as we speak and I'll have to get some lights too! Thanks again.
Awesome video as usual, easy to follow guidelines and just spent all of Christmas playing around with xlights and designing a mega tree with affects :-) another 360 days until next Christmas lol
great introduction... thanks
DrZzs!!
Hey Man you are the greatest. I followed your instructions and i have a mac so things are a little different, but i managed to make a simple display to music, for my first time is wasn't half bad. thanks again for taking time out of your day to do these videos they are the best and so are you. thanks again. see you on your next video!!
HAIL!!!! I've always been a fan, but now that I know you're a fellow Wolverine fan, I'm an even bigger fan.
Thanks for making this. Great walk-through.
...and even a fresher refresher. I was having a problem with xlights talking to the ESP8266 controllers. I was about ready to throw in the towel when I thought I'd run Drzzz's RUclips again. Sure enough, right at about the 8:10 mark when you went into Sync Interfaces and put the channel # in that the light went on... literally and figuratively!! Thanks again for these really informative sessions.
Great job in explaining all this!! Thank you
Back here again for my refresher course.
This is such incredible information!!! Thank you so so much for this.
So clear and on point, thank you
As always great video, and many thanks
I love your videos thank you for sharing all the knowledge ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Nice works. Explained it perfect
Man this is great. Thanks for sharing
DrZzs for president!
This is what I needed to find! Thanks so much.
Merci mec, super video
Thank you! You answered the 'how to connect WLED and xLights'. I really like the WLED "solution" for addressable LEDs but REALLY wanted to use xLights instead. I needed a method to connect the two using an ESP8266. I really appreciate your step-by-step videos and your 'IDK but lets try' attitude.
you can add random effects to you sequence by multi selecting the timing tracks and right click the selection and choose create random effects. It makes for a quick way but not always what you desire.
Bro! Awesome job!
Thanks Dude! I'm up and running ;-)
Literally pulled my hair out of my head (to the point of almost looking like you 😉) for two straight days working through this trying to figure out what I had wrong until I stumbled on this: the WLED controllers need to be 'ON' for the lights to work. Likely something that shouldn't need clarifying to most, but somehow I assumed the xlights communication would auto-toggle and just work. It doesn't. Turn the damn controllers on 😆
Awesome instructional. Thanks for this. Very well explained as usual. I'm really enjoying your videos.
You. Are. The. Man.
Tons of Thanks Dr.zzz
Appreciate your time and help to make it one of the best and detailed information.
😍😍😍😍😍😍
Please do make Video how people are running Pixel light shows using a Raspberry Pi too.🙏🙏
Great video!
wow super thanks
Oh Poo I thought this was tonight's (16th) live stream.
Still WLED / XLIGHTS ... YAY!
Now I get it! Thanx
Thanks a lot!
Awesome 👏
Your videos are awesome! Giving me the confidence to finally take the plunge!!
Are there any things I need to lookout for when buying equipment to use with WLED this year then hopefully expand and do a full lights show next year with xLights? (ie: controllers? Can I use Dig-Uno's and Dig-Quad's with xLights? Any other issues with expanding to xLights next year when buying some starting stuff today?)
Thanks!!!
I'm only just now finding your videos (putting together a light show with my dad this year) and they've been more helpful than 90% of everything else I've watched, thank you so so much.
Do you have any solutions for playing the audio tracks either through outdoor speakers or an FM transmitter?
Like this video, learn a lot, thanks
I ❤ you're bids
chingon tu video, muchas gracias chico
Thanks you!
Great video and great to hear that WLED works so well. Btw. Which type of led strips (chipset or even product) do you use and which PSU?.. Had bad experiences with ws2812b rgb stripes.
Thanks
I love that you got excited when it worked. Great work and awesome tutorial. I live in a townhome, so we can't have lights up more than 30 days after the holidays. Do you have an easy solution for easy set up and take down?
I was thinking pipe clips and rigid tubing with led strips inside so you can just unclip. Make in 2m lengths and should be easy to handle and store out of holiday season.
Nice song to demo, you should follow that with "In the Big House" by Pop Evil
Great Video... Just so you know.. From the pro event industry ie DMX its had been Universe and channel since 1990s.. But yes nodes should be called a pixel... A node is what xlights is what xlights call a "controller" or a interface/node in the events world... a controller, is a lx desk or software
Thank you for making this video! I asked another channel that solely focuses on Christmas light shows to do an xlights + NodeMCU + WLED video and they said it was too complicated for their channel! I am getting started with wled and have been wanting to hook them up to Xlights. One question for you though, would you be willing to do a video on how to control traditional (AC) Christmas lights with Xlights? Maybe something with relays and a nodeMCU?
I want to do this too. Have you ever managed to do this?
My wife is going to be sooo mad I found this!
Great quick start demo!
Q. Do you know if it will handle one controller running 2 strings of equal number of nodes in parallel. Can you have middle starting point?
Great videos!! Would you be able to connect a Dig-Quad to Xlights using the same process and still control 4 different elements?
I saw this live and just order lights, nod mcu and was playing with xlight.
Little did we know that the "Zoom Meeting" we become all too familiar...
Sorry, I am beginner level on this, and really love it. I have a silly question someone with some experience can answer ... When you append two or more led strips, in case the led is on the second or beyond strip, how each led knows if the color being sent on data line, belongs to it or not. Thanks!
DRZzs, thanks for posting this valuable video and the other one about Beginner's Guide to Holiday Lights. In this video though at 3:19, the column heading changed from '#LEDs' to '#Pixels' on your spreadsheet. The quantity under remained the same. You said that three LEDs make up a pixel so same number of LEDs can't be the same number of pixels can they?? A little confused here.
cool
You’re pretty cool for a Wolverine. (From a Buckeye)
Go Blue
The term “universe” has nothing to do with xlights and nothing to do with WLED. It’s part of the ANSI E1.31 protocol that you chose from the drop down list. It’s an old standard for entertainment lights that predates addressable leds. You could just use DDP both support that too.
In case anyone is wondering:
A) This method DOES work for Vixen and Falcon Pi Player (FPP) as well
2) Some schools of thought say that if you're using wifi, you should be using Multicast as it's less processor intensive (on both the device running the show and the pixel controller). And if you're using multicast, then you don't care at all about the IP address, only the Universe. Doing this also allows for multiple controller to be "copied"; meaning if you're multicasting the show, and you have two controllers that are configured for the same universe, they'll both show the exact same thing.
Good explanation, thanks.👍
Great video, just started using xlights myself too and found the talk of channels and universes confusing too. I set up 3 nodemcu's and left them all on universe 1 and it works fine? I assume this is because im using unicast so it's only sending the appropriate data to the appropriate controller but can anyone tell me if this might cause me issues?
I can’t tell you how appreciative I am of this article. Do you have a version 2 you are working on? I’m about to set this all up on aluminum channels at the end of October. I was going to do the hook up version, but since I already have LED exposure (2 LED clouds) I’m going to follow this route.
And to add: what would you do different with hooking up multiple nodemcu’s? Are all of your exterior lights connected to one 60 amp power supply? I’d love to see a photo of a zoomed in version of your wiring setup at the power supply and any components next to it.
Great intro, thank you! There has GOT to be a repository of songs with xLight show files...
there is, explained how to use it here: ruclips.net/video/9I2PsgyKZPg/видео.html
First? :D Loving WLED thanks for introducing me to it Drzzs
The universe model with 512 channel limit is straight from the DMX lighting protocol. Interesting for sure.
I'm new to this all but any help would be appreciated. My light output (initiate sequence) button is missing. Maybe my xlights and nodemcu are not linked but they've changed the look of the software, theirs no "add e1.31" button to press. Any idea?
So if these lights are individually addressable, would I be able to (hypothetically) make a grid of lights on the side or roof of my house, and individually address each light to make a picture/sequence that can also go with the music?
I just installed 654 ws2811 LEDs around the house. They are all on one continuous data string. Is there a way to break up that string into controllable sections without having to have a esp8266/esp32 controller at each section?
I am new to this whole thing and still in the process of figuring out what to buy. What type of controller should I get as I am just starting out.
I can’t seem to get all my lights to work only parts of my light work and have one nodemcu with 422 pixels I have 4 universes 2 dose not light up at all and 3 and 4 mostly light up
Are there any projects like this one, but for a LED matrix instead of string?
This is awesome, thanks! How are you sending audio?
I was curious about this as well.
I’ve got this all set up but when I start my show or test it on xlights the node mcus lag between controllers and they’re not in sync, an I doing something wrong?
So, noon here, I broke 300 pixels into 5 segments (the 0 segment is off, so lights don't show) how can I control 1-5 segments in xlights? I'm using one nodemcu?
Have you tinkered with Xlights any more since this video? I'd be curious to hear about what more you've learned and some of your recommendations on the topic. I'm in the process of starting my plans for this year... It'd be nice to learn some more. Love you videos by the way. You've gotten me completely addicted to WLED!
Yes I have
Thanks!
I've become a bit more familiar with xlights. I don't think I'll have a big dancing display this year, but I probably will next year.
@@DrZzs Any plans for an updated video of what you've learned anytime soon? Just curious! I love the content!
Thanks for sharing but I have to add this... Go Bucks!
im syncing a song with wled over wifi, but some times it lags or loses sync for a little bit, anyone knows how to mitigate that?
I went looking for the ESPixelStick. It only appears to be available on Amazon.com - for US$ 50.00!!!
Now admittedly I'm in Spain but, as the Amazon price is before shipping, this seems absolutely ridiculous.
What are you guys in the US paying for an ESPixelStick?
Me beeing interested in controlling lights and synching to music, but not interested in christmas displays, would really love if it was possible to run xlights with spotify.
I have chase going in wled and when the yellow light bulb is let up they all go dark. So I think xlights is talking to them but when I hit play nothing happens. Any ideas?
This video convinced me definitely buy the 300 dollar led controller box with a power supply included. 300 bucks to keep me from pulling my hair out.
Light o rama?
Now I’m lost should I get nodmcu. Or diguno or digquad
can the light patern be flashed to the WLED or I have to connect my computer to send commands
Does anyone know if you can use the your name.local in place of the IP address when setting up the e 1.31 settings?
how to get the sound to a FM transmitter using the NodeMCU
How is the wiring done for these lights? Are the controllers wired or wireless? What type of controllers are being used? I know you picked ESPixelStick in the video, but is that just a controller that represents what you have, or is it the exact controller?
Did anyone know how i but xlights on my arduino? I cant get the video with the info. And dit i really need a ESP8266?
Sorry for my bad english
The dog-quad are sold out I need it now before Christmas
followed this to the letter but its not outputting to the lights, any ideas cause its driving me mad. cheers
hi sir how you control multiple esp in a single computer ? you have multiple ips. in your video
Will you be updating your method now that half of the menus you have shown, don't exist? Truly informative video BTW.
Can you uploaded a link to a simply spreadsheet? You only showed a portion of the sheet. Does the rest matter?
Not sure I can follow your channel now LOL Go Bucks!!!!!
So it there away to download the show and play it from pi
link for xLights download?