Configuring the Hinkspix with xLights 

This video was done two years ago, and it saved my bacon just today. Yes, a few technical things could be improved (screen size and clarity), but I was able to follow it. I had searched all over, watching a few other videos, and then found this one. It is very straightforward and easy to follow. I set up my 16-port LR Receiver from HC in several hours. Next time, I believe it will take me half that. Many thanks for the tutorial! Merry Christmas. 👍👍🎄😁

Thank you for doing this. Using xLights visualizer stopped me from returning all my hinkspix gear this season.

Thank you for the video!!!!!! I was having some problems but now I know I can fix them by watching this video!! You did a great job at explaining how to configure the controller and set them up. Also I’m glad you explained the AC controller cause I’ll be using mine for all my blow ups.

Thanks for putting this together!

Thank you so much! Very helpful.

Thanks Keith so much for this video. I had initially used 2020 version x-lights and when I updated to the updated version today, the layout was in a mess especially the 16 port smart receiver. I fixed that with the help of this video. now I am getting couple of warnings as follows: SubModels with duplicate nodes WARN: SubModel 'garage spinner 1/Circle 5 - Outer Ring' contains duplicate nodes: 29. This may not render as expected. WARN: SubModel 'garage spinner-2/Circle 5 - Outer Ring' contains duplicate nodes: 29. This may not render as expected. When I click in the sub-models, I can see 29 appearing twice, I can highlight but cant delete one 29. Thanks!

Thank you Kieth for this video it answers alot of questions. I do have a question if there is a way to split a 270 node 36" chroma star and would like to put it on 2 separate ports like 170 and 100 but not sure if it is possible with a hinkspix long range receiver in the visualizer without manually assigning universe per string. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

I'd love to see a screenshot of how you setup your models for the smart AC board. There's not much information about the AC board anywhere.

PS to previous comment. I tried doing it via the Holiday Coro method, but got dozens of errors when I rendered my sequence, so I’m apparently lost in the weeds. The holiday Coro video is apparently quite outdated as the xLights and hinkspix screens look quite different now.

Thanks Keith. I had another question. When you double click on any group/model in the sequencer, apart from the sub-models, Strand 1 also appears. Is this normal, or we can turn this off somewhere, Even for the models which do not have sub-models, the Strand 1 layers appears when you double click on the main model. This only happens in sequencing and not in the layout page. Thanks!

thanks for the video it was helpful. I have a question. I am disenchanting with a Hinks pix pro spi bored 16. The modal is a 96 node snowflake from holidaycoro. In the Visualizer I have them linked together the first modal work fine the second modal works but it flashes. Is there some thing that I am missing.

I am running into the problem of it say i have to many pixels per port. How do i get around this

Has anyone had Trouble with using this method and having a single smart receiver? I cannot get the smart receiver portion to work. Everyone works on the hinx but anything mapped to the receiver does basically nothing.

thanks for everything,i have one question does anyone know how can i buy a controller from europe ,i'm living in spain

How did you find the IP address for the controller?

this HinksPix Pro thing is impossible to set up. I can't get the Wifi connected and there's virtually no one to ask. The creator has comments turned off on his videos which aren't very easy to understand in the first place. Is there anyone out there who can help me set this controller up?

Unfortunately, your chart explaining how the logical maps to the physical is too small to read. Taking a screenshot and blowing it up makes it too fuzzy to read. Is there a reason why you didn’t record this in full screen? I’ve been trying too set up a display with a hinkspix pro with a long range and 16 port smart receiver on port 1 and two double 4 port smart remotes on ports 2 and 3. The visualizer seems to randomly assign things to a long range port and in some cases refuses to let me put anything on a port or reassigns things already on a port when I add something new. I’d appreciate it if you could publish the chart at 14:45 of the video separately or update with a more in depth video on the intricacies of the nuances of the mapping of the physical to the logical in xLights. Why does xLights use A, B, C when the long range ports are labeled 1 to 4? (And then of course the SPI ports on the long range receiver are also 1 to 4). I’ve been in IT for decades, but this is a whole new landscape of two different vendors that don’t seem to communicate well. I messed around last year with an alpha pix 4 and a house outline, but this year decided to splurge on a mega tree some mini trees and arches. Now I’m completely frustrated as things looked great in xLights, but don’t seem to work out at all when plugged into the controllers.