DMX RGB LED Smoke / Fog machine - how to model and sequence it???

[needbrew]

How did you connect from xlights to the boards.  Do you have a USB to DMX converter?  If so what are you using.  I am interested in getting xlxights to control a servo skull I have so any informationn is appreciated.

[Gilrock]

Anything that will do DMX. I started by using an output on a F16v2. I've also got an Entec USB dongle that works  fine also.

[needbrew]

Thanks.  Going to give it a whirl on a skull that I have

[ozaz]

Gil, now you've done such a great job on the skulltronix heads, could you please make a Model style / image for DMX Floods/Spots.

[Gilrock]

Gil, now you've done such a great job on the skulltronix heads, could you please make a Model style / image for DMX Floods/Spots.

What's wrong with the DMX 3D option I just added?

[Gilrock]

http://giphy.com/gifs/26xBAIkXhX7iWLoek

[Ebuechner]

Damn Gil, that's sweet. Now I'm going to have to go buy some DMX moving head spotlights just to try that out.

[ozaz]

Keith has come up with a neat alternative to the DMX Floods mapping/layout/visualisation issue and made a nice video how to :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=878M6nNOhAs

thanks Keith


Now to get some moving heads to try Gil's DMX 3D effect...

[needbrew]

Hey Gill,

I am starting to work on my Skull with the Board from Skulltronics and was wondering if you could share how you set it up in xlights and on the Falcon controller?  I am looking at using the DMX4 port on an F-16 V2R and am having difficulty figuring out what goes where.

[needbrew]

Bump.  I have been unable to figure out how to get the pinout from the DMX4 on the falcon board to talk to the skull I have set-up.  At this point I have no idea how to even test this.  I have the starting channel or the skull set to 8, and in my Falcon F16 I have dmx4 set to start at channel 8.  I have taken wires 1, 2, and 8 form the cat5 cable and mapped them to the 1, 2, 3 on the control board.  I cannot get the servos to move or do anything.

[Gilrock]

I've always had my start channel set to 9 but you will need to set the Falcon to start at channel 1 because you need the skull to be offset 8 channels into the universe.  Also there is a power channel right in front of the Jaw channel which I do not have mapped into the DmxModel.  That channel needs to be written with a 1 then a 0 to turn on the board electronics.  You could map a different model to run the power.  It seemed non-standard so I didn't try to make it part of the built-in model.  I usually will run my Skull a few seconds using a sequence in VSA which will activate that channel.