FPP Connect crashes consistently xLights 2025.1 MacOS

[flangelo]

xLights 2025.12 on MacOS crashes consistently when selecting FPP Connect.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Start xLights, no need to load any sequence
2. Click on 'Tools ~> FPP Connect"
3. xLights will crash
4. See error attached

Expected behavior
FPP Connect should load all available entities.

Versions:

• OS: MacOS Monterey 12.7.6 (21H1320) on MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)
• xLights version 2025.1 for MacOS

Attachments

• Crash bundle without sequence, please reach out for sequence if needed.
  xLights_dbgrpt-2712-20250126T142937 2.zip

[cybercop23]

I doesn't crash for me on my regualr show folder, but it does with your setup. In your setup, you don't have any FPP-able items. Do you a) actually have a PI/FPP and b) if you do, is it connected... c) are one or any of thse controllers on when you try this?

[flangelo]

I do have one FPP server available on the network and is is up and running. I rolled back to 2024.19 and it does not crash. Please let me know if you want me to try anything else.

[cybercop23]

It is not configured in the controllers tab. 2025.2 should be out shortly. You can use the Discover buttont o discover your player, or set it up as FPP/Player Only and restart xLights and see if it still crashes. Put in a fix, but that won't be until .3 since .2 was jsut repleased this AM.

[flangelo]

OK got it, I just did a Discover and added the FPP server. FPP Connect still crashes (2025.1), new bundle attached.
xLights_dbgrpt-4419-20250127T103049.zip

[cybercop23]

Did you restart xlights after the Discover? Try on a newly started xlights with FPP already configured.

[flangelo]

Yep, I restarted xLights and it keeps happening.

An interesting thing to note is that if I turn my Wifi off (so no network and nothing to be found), it still crashes.

[cybercop23]

Okay.. would have expected that to work. There's a fix in place for next version for this.