Xlights ddp only works one esp32 light

Issues
1

Hello i have 12 esp32-2s and each is controlling 900leds. on xlights im using ddp, but when i test them only one string lights up, when i send and check all the controllers they are receiving ddp, but still only one string lights up

im using the v0.15.0-b7 wled and 2024.19 xlights

xlights1
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Sync setup
WLED Broadcast
UDP Port: 
21324

2nd Port: 
65506

ESP-NOW support is disabled.
Sync groups
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Send:								
Receive:								
Receive
Brightness,Color,Effects,and Palette
 Segment options,  bounds
Send
Enable Sync on start: 
Send notifications on direct change: 
Send notifications on button press or IR: 
Send Alexa notifications: 
Send Philips Hue change notifications: 
UDP packet retransmissions: 
0


Reboot required to apply changes.
Instance List
Enable instance list: 
Make this instance discoverable: 
Realtime
Receive UDP realtime: 
Use main segment only: 
Respect LED Maps: 

Network DMX input
Type:
E1.31 (sACN)

Multicast: 
Start universe: 
1

Reboot required.Check outLedFx!
Skip out-of-sequence packets: 
DMX start address: 
1

DMX segment spacing: 
0

E1.31 port priority: 
0

DMX mode:
Multi RGB

E1.31 info
Timeout: 
2500
 ms
Force max brightness: 
Disable realtime gamma correction: 
Realtime LED offset: 
0
2

xlights2
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3

the top one is from 192.168.8.59

and in this reply is 192.168.8.80

Sync setup
WLED Broadcast
UDP Port: 
21324

2nd Port: 
65506

ESP-NOW support is disabled.
Sync groups
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Send:								
Receive:								
Receive
Brightness,Color,Effects,and Palette
 Segment options,  bounds
Send
Enable Sync on start: 
Send notifications on direct change: 
Send notifications on button press or IR: 
Send Alexa notifications: 
Send Philips Hue change notifications: 
UDP packet retransmissions: 
0


Reboot required to apply changes.
Instance List
Enable instance list: 
Make this instance discoverable: 
Realtime
Receive UDP realtime: 
Use main segment only: 
Respect LED Maps: 

Network DMX input
Type:
E1.31 (sACN)

Multicast: 
Start universe: 
1

Reboot required.Check outLedFx!
Skip out-of-sequence packets: 
DMX start address: 
1

DMX segment spacing: 
0

E1.31 port priority: 
0

DMX mode:
Multi RGB

E1.31 info
Timeout: 
2500
 ms
Force max brightness: 
Disable realtime gamma correction: 
Realtime LED offset: 
0
4

A few things I would change:

From controllers tab:
Uncheck ‘Keep channel numbers’ on all of the controllers.
Change the first 2 from ‘xlights only’ back to ‘active’

Don’t Click 'Upload to Controller That tends to mess up your settings in WLED. -Set your outputs/pixel counts in WLED (there is no need to send any config to it from xlights)

If you did click upload to controller, go into WLED - LED Preferences and make sure your Output GPIO’s are still correct.

On your models, Why do you have the box checked to set the color order? You can set your color order in WLED Led Pref’

1 Like
5

Thanks Keep channel numbers did the trick, but why?

6

I’m not 100% sure how it works. I think keep channel #'s does not allow xlights to recalculate them when you drag models to the channels. (I could be wrong) If you were using a newer (2024.15 maybe others too) build of xlights it would actually yell at you that you have to uncheck it when using DDP