Sean Meighan

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Title: How do I set up a serial output port on a F16v3 when using ZCPP?
Post by: jmhabermn on October 09, 2019, 09:16:51 AM

I've just switched over to ZCPP on all my Falcon Controllers.  I've tried to set up the serial output ports on a Falcon F16v3 with no success.  I can't set them up with the controller in ZCPP mode.  I tried putting the controller in 131/Artnet mode and set them up but when I put the controller back into ZCPP mode the settings get overridden.  I also tried to set them up through XLights by selecting controller ports 17, 18, 19 and 20 but that didn't work either.  Any suggestions?  Thanks

Title: Re: How do I set up a serial output port on a F16v3 when using ZCPP?
Post by: keithsw1111 on October 09, 2019, 12:24:24 PM

Change the protocol to dmx. Set the channel number. It should upload as a dmx output. Controller visualiser will show it.

Title: Re: How do I set up a serial output port on a F16v3 when using ZCPP?
Post by: jmhabermn on October 09, 2019, 05:40:15 PM

These are the settings I used:

Controller Connection
  Port:         2
  Protocol:   DMX
  DMX Channels: 1-3, 4-6, 7-10 ect

In Model Chain I tried chaining the models and also setting them all to "beginning" with the same result.

When I output to lights I get a message "an error occured opening output 2 (DMX Devices).  Do you want to continue trying to start output?" 

I click yes

When I go to the status page on the Falcon controller I do not see the serial port.  When I go to the Serial Outputs page all ports show Serial Data,  DMX, Start address 1

When I test from XLights, lights 1 and 2 (Channels 1-6) work properly.  After that the channels seem to be scrambled between the lights.

Thanks