Hi everyone, please help me figure this out. I’m new to this. I have light strips on my ceiling. I want the strip to run from start to finish and stay lit when I turn it on, but it’s not working. I make the first preset with a wipe effect, the second preset with a solid effect, and create a playlist with the first effect and a transition to the second. Everything worked out fine here, but when I turn the light off and on again, the light just lights up, without the wipe effect.
It seems number 3 is your playlist and you have check “Apply at boot”, I am right ?
its much easier in 16.0 which we hope to have ready for release any day now.
Yes, that’s correct.
Thanks, I’ll try to figure it out.
Can you show how is configured your playlist ?
I’ve made some test and at boot last preset seems to almost start, but then playlist is applied.
In your playlist you have :
- #1 - Wipe for 7s
- #2 - Solid for 999s
- End preset - Solid
For most I know you don’t need #2, just start with wipe and end with Solid.
I can’t replicate your issue, maybe WLED 16 will solve it.
I’ve managed to get the line to sweep across and then remain lit; now, however, the problem lies elsewhere. When I turn off the light and then switch it back on, it simply stays lit rather than sweeping across—but what I want is for the sweep animation to play every single time the light is turned on.
Define: “When I turn it on” and “When I turn it off”
Is that an actual physical power off/on or are you pushing a button/switch to tell the lights to activate/deactivate (ESP remains powered up, but the LED’s or deactivated by a preset").
Physical power up/down will need to be handled by a preset/playlist flagged for boot activation.
Normally I would just set your animation as a preset/playlist to be applied at boot (look under Config->LED Preferences->Defaults->Apply at Boot).
It may (???) need some delay or a short initial - “set everything to black” phase to make sure the LEDs start out all off.
If it’s a button on/off, you may need to figure out what “state” you left the Segment in when you buttoned it “Off”. Just cause you can’t see the LEDs (they’re not displayed or are too dim) doesn’t mean they aren’t “doing” something from WLEDs POV.