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that will work with any of the singing trees. Selecting
a ‘prop’ reduces the number of pixels to the first 8
pixels on the first pixel string of the prop. Here is the
pixel assignment:
Pixel 1 – Outline of the tree
Pixel 2 – Tree topper
Pixel 3 – Eyes closed
Pixel 4 – Eyes open
Pixel 5 – Mouth closed
Pixel 6 – Mouth half open
Pixel 7 – Mouth full open
Pixel 8 – Mouth ‘oh’
Software Control
The Pixies appears in a LOR Network at the unit ID
set by the DIP switches or Hardware Utility plus 1, 3,
7 or 15 additional sequential unit IDs. The first unit
ID corresponds to the first string, the second unit ID
corresponds to the second pixel string, …
A pixel string is configured in the Sequence Editor
as up to 200 pixels.
If you configure the Pixie for 50 physical pixels, each
string appears as 160 channels. The first 150
channels are the R, G & B channels for the 50
physical pixels. These channels can be combined
into Sequence Editor RGB channels cutting the 150
to 50. The next 10 channels are the resolution,
macro and color effect channels. These are for
compatibility mode with the old CCR/CCB/CCP.
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Old CCR/CCB/CCP Compatibility
Resolution, Macro & Color Channels
Because of the large number of controllable
elements, the Pixie supports some legacy concepts
designed to simplify programming the strings.
Channel 151 – Current logical resolution
Channel 152 – Macro mode
Channel 153 – Macro submode
Channel 154 – Macro effect control
Channel 155 – Color effect mode
Channel 156 – Color speed
Channel 157 – Color intensity
Channels 158-160 – Reserved
Logical Resolution
Logical resolution works completely with 50 pixel
strings. For strings other than 50 pixels, only full
resolution and resolution 1 are supported. A
resolution of ‘1’ means the string will only be one
pixel – i.e. it will act like a dump RGB string.
This channel allows the logical resolution of a pixel
string to be changed on the fly. The logical
resolution is the number of pixels the string appears
as in the Sequence Editor.
In compatibility mode, a pixel string has a physical
resolution of 1 to 50 pixels. This means the string
can appear as up to 150 regular channels or 50
RGB channels. If the strings are configured to have
50 physical pixels and the resolution channel is set
to one of the following intensities, adjacent bulbs
may be combined to reduce the channel count:
