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

[mberta2]

Yes the COM5 is hooked up as well as the E1.31. Would it make a difference if run it in unicast instead of multi? And yes, I deleted everything and added just the 96 channels of  LOR.

[mberta2]

If I did want to try running my LOR controllers in dmx, what would I need to do? I know you have to make a quick adapter (I watched the PowerPoint from auschristmas) if I make that cable and connect it to a output on my pixlite16 and then to my LOR controllers, is that all I need to do?

[Gilrock]

If the Pixlite is like other cards you will program it with the universe you want it to send out that DMX port.  Then your LOR controllers will need to be set to the correct channel offset inside that DMX stream.  So if you have two 16 channel boxes the first is set to 1 and the second to 17.  They start on certain boundaries and there is a table showing all this in that presentation.

[mberta2]

I might try dmx tomorrow. When u am making that adapter that they show in the presentation, do I need more than those three wires or are those the only wires I need?

[Gilrock]

If you use 6 wires following the pin mapping they show on the slide then the cable will work in both directions which means it doesn't matter which side you plug in.  You can do it with 3 wires but then you need to know which side goes into the LOR box.

I think it's easier to build a cable using all 8 wires because it will slide in the connector easier so this is how I built mine and it will work either way you plug it in.  Make sure you label the cable so you know it's a DMX to LOR conversion cable and not standard ethernet.

One side is standard 568B:
1 WHT/ORG
2 ORG
3 WHT/GRN
4 BLU
5 WHT/BLU
6 GRN
7 WHT/BRN
8 BRN

Then the other side:
1 BLU
2 WHT/BLU
3 WHT/GRN
4 WHT/ORG
5 ORG
6 WHT/BRN
7 GRN
8 BRN

[mberta2]

I just made a quick spliced together 3 wire adapter (going to the store tomorrow to get the right tools to make own cables). Works great. Lights are perfect. No noticable lag at all. Looks like running in dmx is my best option. I know I lose twinkle and shimmer but o well. Less cables running out to the yard too so that's a plus. I might get rid of the actidongle on com5 and run that though my pixlite16 as well. That runs my 2-27ch rgb controllers from Holidaycoro.com.

[mberta2]

Thank you to everyone who helped me get this figured out. I don't know where I would be without forums.

[DDameron]

You still have twinkle and shimmer... it's just done thru DMX... not the built-in LOR twinkle and shimmer... so it's somewhat different, but it's still there :-)

[mberta2]

Ya I actually noticed that. I was doing some more testing just to make sure I really had it fixed and I saw that it was working. Not quite the same but nothing that I would complain about. This is such a good feeling. Now I can continue sequencing and building props. I put everything on hold until I had this figured out. No use doing that stuff if I can't figure out how to run the show. Haha. Thank you to everyone again for all of the patients helping me through this. The holiday lighting community is pretty awesome.