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Title: Xlights to Falcon F16 data loss
Post by: tonyf1949 on November 18, 2016, 08:30:53 PM

Hi all
I have had computer, Xlights connected to my Falcon F16 board for a few months on the bench to a number of strips and all works fine. I now have moved the Falcon board to its final position which is about 30 metres from the computer and I can not get any data from computer (Xlights) to the Falcon. I have put it back on the bench and it works fine with the short 1 metre data lead. I made up another 30 metre data lead (even tried Cat6) and connected it on the bench and the data is lost. I can not log into the Falcon board with this lead but all is well on the short 1 metre data lead.
What am I doing wrong.

Title: Re: Xlights to Falcon F16 data loss
Post by: tonyf1949 on November 18, 2016, 08:39:38 PM

Forgot to mention that I do have a LAN cable tester and the 2 new leads that I made up are all OK.

Title: Re: Xlights to Falcon F16 data loss
Post by: jnealand on November 19, 2016, 09:59:17 AM

What F16 is this?  An F16v1 uses pixelnet from an etherdongle or some other dongle.  An F16v2 uses ethernet and you should be able to go long distances via ethernet.  I have also gone long distance using pixelnet.

Title: Re: Xlights to Falcon F16 data loss
Post by: tonyf1949 on November 19, 2016, 05:46:21 PM

Sorry. It's a F16v2. Ethernet to switch to falcon. No more than 30 metres. Have new computer running windows 10. But all is fine on the bench.

Title: Re: Xlights to Falcon F16 data loss
Post by: Gilrock on November 19, 2016, 06:08:41 PM

You should be able to go 30 meters no problem with ethernet so I'd suspect a bad cable.