Can anyone please point me in the direction of a good tutorial on running LOR controllers in dmx wit

[Gilrock]

How are you adding the LOR data to the sequence?

When I'm troubleshooting I like to isolate things.  I would probably start a new directory and on the setup tab just define the one USB device with 96 channels and test that by itself with your imported LOR data.

With all the other RGB stuff you are mixing in all it would take is for you to mess up one model definition to screw up those LOR channels.  If you have any of the RGB models accidentally defined with the default starting channel of 1 then they will be trying to send their data out to the LOR hardware.

[mberta2]

Hey Gilrock, I just gotta say, even if we don't figure this out, thank you so much for the help.

[mberta2]

I started over, only adding the 96 lor channels to the setup. I tried running it. Same thing. At 96 channels there is a ridiculous amount of lag ( literally 5 to 10 seconds). The shimmer effect from lor looks like a slow flashing light. I drop the channel count down to 16 and voila, it's close to perfect (still a little off but now we are taking ms, nothing really noticable). Starting to get frusterated.

[Gilrock]

You never said how you are adding the LOR data to xLights.  Is it a data layer?  Is it imported as effects with the new import feature.  Is it added to the fseq file using the Convert tab?

[mberta2]

I use the new import feature. When you use the new wizard and it asks if you want to import a sequence

[Gilrock]

So all the LOR data gets converted to effects using that option.  At that point you are really just playing Nutcracker effects on the channels.  Maybe it would help to describe how you have all the hardware connected including cable lengths between controllers.  Could there be a bad controller in the middle that you aren't using when you try less channels?  I'd love to see a video of what your seeing.

[Gilrock]

Well actually you said all the channels work with LOR so it can't be a bad controller in the mix.

[flyinverted]

Gil, before you go down that route, you need to explore WHY the 96ch soft limit is there in the first place.

http://nutcracker123.com/forum/index.php?topic=267.0

[Gilrock]

Yeah but in that thread they blame it on LOR protocol but they still claim it should be capable of doing 96 channels.  If LOR software is working then why would xLights have a 5-10 second delay?  That's not lag...that's something screwed up somewhere in either the hardware or software or setup.

[flyinverted]

Mberta, can you post a screen shot of your network setup from xLights?

[mberta2]

I'm gonna have to continue tomorrow. Heading to work now. Thanks for everything so far.

[mberta2]

For now I only had one lor controller hooked up. The cat5 cable I am using is pretty long but in good shape.

[mberta2]

The cat5 I am using now is 50ft. I have it setup for all 96 channels, but I only have 1 controller hooked up right now. (Unit 5 is the one, it was the easiest to access at the time. I do have a screenshot but it's an older one. Everything is the same as this screenshot except all of the universes have been bumped up one. I didn't know at first that I had to leave universe 1 open for the LOR stuff and I had my rgb controllers starting at 1.

[mberta2]

I would have posted a current one, but I'm at work till 2am.

[Gilrock]

Is that COM5 hooked up to real hardware when your running your tests?  What about the E1.31 output does it have somewhere to go?  I know my system lags bad if I try to drive IP addresses that don't exist but I'm running Unicast so I don't know how Multicast would react if you don't have anything connected.  When I said start over and just define the 96 channels did you do that in this setup page as well?