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 Chapter One: Introduction
Acknowledgements The developers and authors of this manual are volunteers. A very special thanks goes out to our families for supporting us in this hobby. Without your support we could not do this. A very special thanks goes out to Matt Brown and Sean Meighan, the original authors of xLights and Nutcracker. Preface from Sean Meighan Welcome to the xLights/Nutcracker User Manual. We hope that you will find the information that you need to make your Halloween and Christmas shows shine! History xLights xLights was created by Matt Brown in 2010. Matt wanted a program that would reliably play his LOR show. The original xLights was “only” a scheduler/player. It had sophisticated playlists, ability to play videos, mp3 and wav files. Matt created a process to support Renard, Pixelnet, E1.31 (Sacn), LOR, DMX and Open DMX controllers. There was a built in CONVERT tab to change LOR lms files into xLight XSEQ files. Nutcracker 2.x. Version 1.0 of Nutcracker was released on Feb 2012 by Sean Meighan. Version 1.0 and 2.0 were a web based, php application. 3.x Matt Brown asked Sean if he could port the Nutcracker code into xLights in December 2012. The result was xLights/Nutcracker 3.0 4.x Sean had discussions with Dave Pitts about making a horizontal timeline, sound file waveform and drop effects. Dave coded up the first Alpha xLights/Nutcracker 4.0 in November 2014. In January 2015, Gil Jones and Dan Kulp came on to the team and took over the development from Dave. Dave went back to hardware design on his new Falcon 16 v2 boards. xLights/Nutcracker page 6