Lor controllers with F16v3

[Mr-LED]

I am battling trying to get xlights to control my lor boards.  Lor boards have correct firmware, plugged into serial port 2, jumpers set to lor.  Falcon test mode turns on the lights.  The threads on this are old and refer to the falcon 2 board.  I haven't found anything that explains the serial outputs page.  Also not receiving packets from xlights, probably cause I'm not sure how to setup xlights with the serial page.  I'll try to post screen shots of what I have.

[rickswa]

sorry-----after I typed my initial response below, I noticed you are trying to keep the boxes in LOR mode.  I converted mine to DMX to make things a lot easier.  I'm not 100% sure of the conversion process when trying to keep it all LOR.  Switching to DMX isn't too bad (other than the channel mapping and initial time it takes to reconfigure your channels for DMX in the LOR software)


You have to use the bottom 2 serial outputs for LOR.  I use the 2nd one down for my CCR universe (universe 2, start channel 513 and the bottom one for all my standard LOR AC boxes and have it set in f16 as universe 1, start channel 1.  You'll also want to make sure these match with the universe you have in xlights.  I aksed before but I think you can only have 2 serial universe outputs with the 716 without having to use an expansion board.  Hope this helps.  Also, for some reason the CCR's dont work well when I put them in the bottom serial output even if I define that as universe 2 with the start channel of 513. 

[Mr-LED]

I'm totally confused.  What do you mean I'm wanting to keep them in LOR mode?  I'm trying to set them up as universe 18.  The port i'm using is for LOR controllers.

[rickswa]

So you have a combo of pixels and LOR boxes?  Like I said, I'm still just barely ahead of what you are doing too.  Switching over from LOR to xlights and f16v3.  I do have my jumpers set to LOR on the f16 but I set all the addresses on the LOR boxes for DMX mode and also changed all the LOR channels in the LOR software to DMX mode.  Are you importing sequences from LOR software or strictly creating in xlights and then using your LOR boxes with the f16?  I put my channels in absolute mode so I don't have the "box 9, channel 1" thing.  It's channel 1 straight thru to the end.  For my falcon setup, I have universe 1 on com 3 set at start channel 1 and then universe 2 set at start channel 513.  Sorrry I can't be of more help, but if you want to keep the "box 1 channel 1" standard LOR channel numbering scheme, I'm not sure how you would define that in falcon.  I just went with the DMX and absolute numbering route.  So, for example, your universe 18 would have a start channel of 4453 and not 1

[Ebuechner]

If the lights work in test mode off the falcon you have a good connection between the Falcon and your Lor box and you're good to go on that part.
If you're not seeing any packets received then we need to concentrate on the xlights setup.
Are you not receiving any packets? Or are you not receiving packets for that universe?
I'm trying to establish if you have proper communication between xlights and the Falcon board.
Maybe the fastest way to resolve this is if you can join the net meeting tonight.

[Ebuechner]

Also I just noticed you have two different IP addresses on your setup page in xlights.
You'll need to set those to be all the same to communicate with the falcon.

[Mr-LED]

I fixed the ip address, that got rid of some odd errors I was getting opening up a sequence.  Falcon is receiving packets now, but no lights yet.  I think I'm down to needing what to set on the serial outputs page.

Yes, I plan to be in the zoom meeting.

[Ebuechner]

In the screenshot you posted you're single line model was set to universe 18 with the start channel of 50.
Are you sure that this matches up with how you have your controller set.
Keep in mind you're going to have to go in to your controllers and reset the addresses based off of the DMX address chart that Lor has.
Xlights and Falcon do not output the Lor proprietary code, they only output DMX which is compatible with your controllers when they're set correctly.

[keithsw1111]

Xlights does output a subset of the lor proprietary protocol.

[Ebuechner]

Xlights does output a subset of the lor proprietary protocol.

I don't have any Lor boxes anymore but now I'm curious.
So you're saying that xlights can send the commands to have the Lor box do the internal twinkle and Shimmer.
What settings need to be changed in X lights to have it send out the Lor protocol?

[Gilrock]

When you select the LOR output type xLights is sending LOR formatted data but we don't try to do anything special for Twinkle and Shimmer nor did Keith say we did hence the word "subset".