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Offline SventeHof

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openDMX at MAC Version
« on: January 14, 2016, 11:59:01 AM »
Hi there,

can someone explain, why the openDMX USB-Controller doesn´t exists in the MAC Version?
I have a usb2dmx Cable that work with xlights at Windows 7 (Parallels at Mac) with the openDMX Version.
I would like to actually directly work with the Mac Version, but i can´t find the openDMX Controller in xlights.

Someone uses the Mac version with OpenDMX ?Or has a hint for me?

Sven
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Offline dkulp

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Re: openDMX at MAC Version
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2016, 12:56:50 PM »

Just checked the code and the OpenDMX has a guard around for OSX.  No idea why.   

At one point, the serial handling on OSX wasn't able to set the speed to any of the non-standard speeds (DMX's 250000 is non-standard) which is likely why it was blocked off.  That said, I would have expected the "DMX" option to also be removed.      I *THINK* I fixed that a while ago, but I don't have any serial controllers (all my DMX stuff is run via e1.31 bridges) so it's completely untested. 

I just stuck a new xLights-MAC-4.3.2-dmx.tar.gz build which just has that guard removed so the OpenDMX option should be there.   Can you give it a try and see if it actually works?
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Re: openDMX at MAC Version
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2016, 01:29:08 PM »
Yes, i can give it a try tomorrow .. and i will give you directly a feedback :-)
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Re: openDMX at MAC Version
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2016, 01:51:21 PM »
So, I tested it on the fast , but it does not go . I'll try to bring it to work.. give me a day
Probsteierhagen, Germany

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