I’m using xlights for a Christmas display. I use the brightness on the segment to power balance…
However when transmit SACN it just overrides the segments (force max brightness is current off on sacn)
Dimming the brightness is not how you power balance. To power balance you add power injection points so that you have a consistent voltage across your whole string.
xlights does not care about your segments. You would need to adjust the brightness of the models in xlights unless you want everything on your WLED controller to be a certain brightness. In that case you can use the Master Brightness slider.
I have snowflakes, mini trees, arches and a few other things on a controller and I need the arches to be like 80-90% and the others to be 30%. I set the 80% value on WLED and adjusted the other models down in xlights.
Hi.
I currently do that in xlights.
Many of the other controller used with xlights allow you to change the output. It’s quicker and can be done live.
If it was possible to add is segment brightness limits external control it would be really useful…
My understanding…
Power injection is power injection
Load balancing - link the start of prop to the bottom or prop.
What I’m taking about it “power reduction” . Ie I have 5 * 50 pixel stars, all power balanced… All running of one 5amp port (segment)… I then want to make everything on that segment 30% as that level the colours are fine with the lack of power injection. Plus I dont need to run them at 100%
I don’t think there is any other way other than the brightness curve of each model in xlights. xlights does not take into account for segments created in WLED. To xlights you have x number of LEDs and it just sends over the data telling WLED what to do with each one.
In xlights you could actually stick all of your models on 1 port of a WLED controller and as long as you have WLED’s ports defined correctly in WLED’s settings everything would work. There is nothing (really) defining different segments or ports from xlights to WLED.
Brightness is generally not about reducing power it is about not turning the LED’s on as frequently. What you see when an LED is on is actually it turning on and off really fast (PWM). LED’s always operate at full brightness. You just perceive them being dimmer due to them not turning on as frequently.
WLED has a setting to force max brightness when receiving realtime data. Try disabling it.
that’s what i thought, however, it seems to only apply to the master brightness and makes no difference on segments… it would make sense if it did 