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Tesla Light Show: Custom Show Creation
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Instead of releasing a light show feature, could you fix the USB hub powering off bug? That would be really helpful so my passengers can charge phones without me needing to open the arm rest storage area for the 12v outlet. And, the USB thumb drive would keep recording, which makes the TeslaCam feature usable. The bug is a couple years old now, and it's pretty frustrating to see these types of things released while existing issues aren't being addressed.
I have the exact same issue. On my USB I have a folder called LightShow and inside of that folder have two files lightshow.wav and lightshow.fseq when I plug it in the car, it only plays the original lightshow not my custom lightshow file. I made sure there's no other file on that USB. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
Yes, did all of the suggestion from those posts except waiting for 2 minutes. Will try that tomorrow. Thanks
I have the 2022 Model S. I know that the door handle lights come on in the Tesla provided light show. When I make my own sequence, I cannot get them to turn on, using the left or right front or rear door handles. Has anyone else been able to make them light up?
There are also channels for left and right doors. What do they do? I set them to a brightness of 25, and there is no movement.
There are also channels for left and right doors. What do they do? I set them to a brightness of 25, and there is no movement.
QUESTION: On the LightShow hosting site a few of the LightShows don't have a Zip file to download and only seem to have 1 file Attached. How does this work?
teslalight.show
When you download from one of them you just get the one file. Here are 3 in a row.
Tesla light show repository
This is a repository of all the light shows from the community. Feel free to contribute. See installation instructions here: https://github.com/teslamotors/light-show#usb-flash-drive-requirements
teslalight.show
When you download from one of them you just get the one file. Here are 3 in a row.
Thanks @TeslaBC team for a really cool feature.
Here's my first home-made show for our M3:
I assume the feature works based on the least powerful MCU hardware. If that is the case, it is holding back many people.
The 5 minutes limitation for a show seems more theoretical to me because you run out of resources way before that: I created a 3 second long totally tricked out sequence for my light show and it ate more than 15% of the resources. At that rate I wouldn't even get a show lasting 30 seconds.
I hope a future upgrade will allow MCU 3 specific shows as that should allow for longer and more complex light shows.
Allowing multiple shows on a single USB stick would be great as well. Within the "LightShow" directory should then be sub-directories "Show1", "Show2", and so on in order to leave the file names ("lightshow.*") as is - people then just need to know what show is in each folder LOL
Icing on the cake would be a feature to allow show sync for multiple Teslas.
Here's my first home-made show for our M3:
I assume the feature works based on the least powerful MCU hardware. If that is the case, it is holding back many people.
The 5 minutes limitation for a show seems more theoretical to me because you run out of resources way before that: I created a 3 second long totally tricked out sequence for my light show and it ate more than 15% of the resources. At that rate I wouldn't even get a show lasting 30 seconds.
I hope a future upgrade will allow MCU 3 specific shows as that should allow for longer and more complex light shows.
Allowing multiple shows on a single USB stick would be great as well. Within the "LightShow" directory should then be sub-directories "Show1", "Show2", and so on in order to leave the file names ("lightshow.*") as is - people then just need to know what show is in each folder LOL
Icing on the cake would be a feature to allow show sync for multiple Teslas.
I got the answer to these questions:
1. You have to set brightness to 25 for the door handles to pop out and light up.
2. The front door controls only work for model X.
Now I have another question. In the "Dance" setting of the liftgate, it says the liftgate will go between two predefined positions. What are those two positions?
Jet007
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I tried liftgate dance in my sequence. See this for the 2 predefined positions -
Here's my 3rd custom light show - to the music of TSO's "Wizards In Winter":
The original song is 3 minutes long and when I started the project I was hoping to make it work (since Tesla limits the length of a show to 5 minutes). However, as I mentioned in another post, the length of the show is not as important as the overall load on the resources.
I quickly realized there is no way I can create a 3-minute-long show without running out of resources first. Early on I created a sequence lasting 3 seconds and it "cost" 15.89% of the resources. So I had to cut the song in half, and this is the first 91 seconds.
There are no "dances" in the sequence - it is intended as a light show, and they are best viewed in the dark. Dancing mirrors, doors, and windows are something for a daylight show IMHO besides I was out of resources for this show anyways.
The show is made with the NA M3 LR/P in mind. For example, light channels 4, 5, and 6 are bundled and the sequence only uses channel 4 and the sequence doesn't use any lights not installed on the NA version like the rear fog lights.
Enjoy the show!
The original song is 3 minutes long and when I started the project I was hoping to make it work (since Tesla limits the length of a show to 5 minutes). However, as I mentioned in another post, the length of the show is not as important as the overall load on the resources.
I quickly realized there is no way I can create a 3-minute-long show without running out of resources first. Early on I created a sequence lasting 3 seconds and it "cost" 15.89% of the resources. So I had to cut the song in half, and this is the first 91 seconds.
There are no "dances" in the sequence - it is intended as a light show, and they are best viewed in the dark. Dancing mirrors, doors, and windows are something for a daylight show IMHO besides I was out of resources for this show anyways.
The show is made with the NA M3 LR/P in mind. For example, light channels 4, 5, and 6 are bundled and the sequence only uses channel 4 and the sequence doesn't use any lights not installed on the NA version like the rear fog lights.
Enjoy the show!
Correct, the "dance" positions are pre-defined and you can't change them.
However, you can combine "OPEN", "STOP", and "CLOSE" commands to create your own "dance".
WARNING: "dance" (or the above mentioned "workaround") causes thermal stress and parts may overheat (and stop working)
I am really proud of my LightShow here. Really believe that many of you guys could like it. I upload my shows to teslalightshare.io
Is teslalight.show or teslalightshare.io the better page? What do you think?
Is teslalight.show or teslalightshare.io the better page? What do you think?
I havn't used it by myself but in Germany some guys use such tools to switch between different LightShows quicker:
And as far as I know, you can have multiple Lightshows on only one usb but you would have to rename them before using them. Only the one in the Lightshow folder is active.
I have two folders on my usb ("LightShow" and "Rest" - could also have one folder for each song so that all the files can already be named "lightshow"). To change the lightshow I just plug the usb into my phone and drag the show I want into the LightShow folder (and the current one into the rest folder) and rename the data to "lightshow".
I know, it isn't a nice procedure but it works in less than 15 seconds.
Currently you can only have one "active" show on your USB stick. That is because the car simply looks for a single folder named "LightShow" and in that folder it looks for a sequence file named "lightshow.fseq" and single audio file named "lightshow.*" in EITHER a MP3 or WAV format.
It is however fairly quick and easy to have multiple shows in other directories and then simply plug the USB stick in your phone, open the "folder" app and copy the two files from your dedicated show folder to the "LightShow" folder.
That process takes just a few seconds, and you have multiple light shows you can perform with very little time in between.
Ja, tijd op in te ruilen op een nieuwe 
Als een gewone reset niet werkt, probeer dan eens door de wielen op een ander formaat in te stellen, of een andere taal. Dat geeft een volledige reset.
Als een gewone reset niet werkt, probeer dan eens door de wielen op een ander formaat in te stellen, of een andere taal. Dat geeft een volledige reset.
Netmaster22
Member
My first attempt. Thank you Tesla for opening this up to us!
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