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Title: **Solved** Xlights not turning on DMX
Post by: grungle25 on December 07, 2015, 07:35:21 AM

Hi All

I have a strange issue that I am sure must be a very simple fix.  I have a 48 channel DMX controller connected through an ECG-D4.  I am using 5 of the channels and have it setup as channels 1-15, universe 1 through XLights.  I am using unicast to the 192.168.1.151 which is the IP of the D4.  I have it setup the same through the D4.

When I test channels 1-15 with xLights nothing happens.  When using Davids E1.31 test tool (http://www.da-share.com/software/da_e131/ (http://www.da-share.com/software/da_e131/)) I set it to test on 192.168.1.151, universe 1, channels 1-15 and it all works perfectly with channels 1-15 displaying as they should.

Any simple reasons why Xlights won't turn these lights on?

Thanks

Glenn




 

Title: Re: DMX Not Turning on Lights - Tests
Post by: grungle25 on December 08, 2015, 08:09:34 AM

I have just found the issue and I still don't really understand it.  Not that it matters :)


I had Universe 1 set to 35 channels in size because I was going to drive some flood lights that didn't pan out.  It was an odd number because the floods started on channel 2.  At that stage the trees were 21-35.  When I gave up on the floods I changed the trees to be 1-15. 


I had an idea (it was idea number 43567) that I should just allocate all the channels available on the AVD48.  On the setup I changed universe 1 to be 48 channels then went and updated all the models after the trees by adding 13 to their starting channels......and it worked.