Playlist: When done running affect, freeze/stop last display

Questions
1

When running a playlist effect for X seconds, is there some way that, when X seconds end, the effect stops and whatever was on the LEDs remains there indefinitely?

Like a “stop and hold” or “freeze” option.

I have some effects that put up complex patterns (so I can’t use a pixelforge thing as this is dynamic) and at some point, I want to stop the effect and just leave whatever was displayed last visible, statically, effectively indefinitely.

I’ve tried to use a playlist with repeat 1 (so not indefinitely) and an end preset of none, but the playlist keeps looping back anyway (which I don’t understand - must be missing something there too, but…)

So just a “halt” (or “pause” or “freeze”) leaving the last LED “frame” statically visible?

Thanks,

Gerry

2

you can freeze a segment or freeze all segments by clicking the “stopwatch” icon either in FX or in segments. or create a preset that calls the API command “frz”

3

Hmm - I know the freeze preset works (thanks!), but the playlist doesn’t seem to respect it. When I run this, it runs for 10 seconds, then I see a “glitch” which I expect is the freeze preset, but then it runs again and again (effectively doing a repeat indefinitely).

I have repeat set to 1, so shouldn’t it just hit the end of the list, run freeze and stop? It’s like it wants to repeat regardless of what I have set. 16.0.1

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4

I am not 100% how playlists are handled in detail but that transition may mess with it. try transition 0.

5

That did it - thanks!! I would never have thought of that. Works perfect now!

For future reference for anyone looking to do this too:

  1. Setup a new effect (I called mine freeze). Uncheck “Overwrite with state” and paste this into the present text block/box:

{“seg”:[{“id”:0,“frz”:true}]}

(note: that freezes the first segment - you can alter that if needed)
2) Setup a play list that execute whatever other presets you want
3) Make sure the last preset has a transition time of 0
4) Uncheck “Repeat Indefinitely”
5) Set End Preset to your freeze preset

You can also use that freeze preset to just “pause” a playlist for X seconds by adding it as part of the list of presets with an appropriate timer.

Gerry