This lets you setup what sequences will play and in what order (or use an interactive method to allow your audience to choose what to play, which just activates the appropriate sequence). The sequences are then played using xSchedule or some other tool such as FPP (Falcon PI Player), which lets you push out the different songs or effects into your lights. As mentioned, a sequence is effectively creating light effects to either a musical track or over a given period of time. I've been using xLights quite a bit to generate sequences. This page isn't about the controllers and scheduler, but instead about the sequencing tool xLights which is how you put together the data (or information) which gets sent to each controller for controlling the pixels. But in my setup I have a spare laptop running my custom script, which also hosts xSchedule (part of the xLights software, for scheduling the sequences), and xSchedule talks to controllers connected to my network (to control the lights). Some people run FPP (Falcon Pi Player, but it now runs on more devices than just a Raspberry Pi) which allows you to run the schedule from a smaller (and cheaper) device without having to use a dedicated PC. In steps xLights (and yes, there are others such as Light-O-Rama (aka: LOR), Vixen), but xLights seems to have a massive online community and support, as well as regular updates to the software). Some controllers have their own sequencing (such as WLED running on a ESP8266 or Arduino) or even the Falcon and Advatek Pixlite controllers running pixel test sequences.įor bigger events (or ones which require specific timings), you need a decent sequencing tool. The control consists of three parts, a sequence of events, a scheduler to run the sequences and a way to control the lights to match that sequence (called a controller). In order to run a light show, you need to have lights, power and some way to control the pixels to tell them what to do and when to do it.

Free lor sequences