DMX addressing

[Tory Street Lights]

Not a major, but could someone guide me how to setup xLights to talk to a DMX dongle using just the first 8 channels of one universe.  The DMX data is already embedded in the sequence when it was converted from Vixen on channels 1025 - 1032.

Setup page below :-

Thankyou

Terry

[keithsw1111]

Make sure that you add a USB output that has absolute channels 1025 to 1032.

[Tory Street Lights]

"Make sure that you add a USB output that has absolute channels 1025 to 1032."

Thanks Keith,

Your suggestion, and using the "correct" DMX selection was the key to getting the thing to work.   It seems that I needed to have "Open DMX" selected rather than "DMX" to operate my "Kamtronics "dongle / FS 3 Lazer projector combination.  Success now, that should be the last bug that bites the dust for this year :-)

All the rest is running perfectly  :-)

Terry

[Tory Street Lights]

Sorry to revive a thread that I thought was "fixed". 

The DMX output from xLights to the Lazer Projector, only 6 channels, "sometimes works, sometimes not", on occasions it appears to be just gated on when it is commanded to operate.  When testing, if the sequencer reports "something else is sending to the lights, results may not be what is expected" it definitely goes awol!!

Looking at the layout page, as suggested by Keith, I have all 6 channels set for absolute addressing, Ch's 1025 - 1030. I haven't set anything in the "controller connection", do I need to  ??  If so do I need to set the protocol there, I see there is "DMX" option, how do I set it's addressing for each channel considering the DMX adaptor is a USB Dongle ??

Certainly not a major, but it would be nice to have it doing what I programmed it to do  :-)

Screen dumps below :-

Terry 

[Gilrock]

When testing, if the sequencer reports "something else is sending to the lights, results may not be what is expected" it definitely goes awol!!

If this is what causes it then the warning is accurate...   We just talked about this in the other thread.

[Tory Street Lights]

Thanks again for your time and comments Gil, could someone guide me how to change the DMX output addressing in both the layout and setup tabs in the post above, I have three universes not being used at the bottom of the list, although the serial data feeds are using "outputs 1 - 3", so long as they don't conflict.  I have since changed all the E1.31's to Multicast to get over buffering problems.  The reason for this is I "think" I may be able to get away with using another ESPixelstick in DMX Mode to shift the DMX data to my Lazer projector using E1.31, it will be worth a try.

Sorry for the dumb/newbie questions, I'm a hardware guy  :-(

Terry

[Gilrock]

I really can't follow what you're trying to do.  For Layout you just set the start channel for the model to match wherever its going to start in the universe.

[Tory Street Lights]

Thanks Gil, my terminology will be the problem, sorry, I am still getting my head around that.

I set the setup to E1.31 Multicast, Universe 3, no complaints from xLights :-)  Then in the Layout I set all 8 Channels/Models  start channel 1 - 8 respectively, Universe (any) with number 3 selected, no complaints from Xlights, the Start Channel/End Channels listed was indexed happily to the original sequencers channels (1025 - 1030).

The preview looks fine, and there appears to be data heading out to the E1.31 WiFi by the look of what I am seeing on my 'scope on the ESPixelstick output.  So far no response from the Lazer Projector when fed from the ESPixelstick, so more "digging" maybe required on the correct method of connection, hopefully Shelby will correct me on that score at some stage!.

If I have made a mistake in the addressing, let me know :-(

Terry

[Tory Street Lights]

Update, my comments re- DMX addressing are correct, once I got an ESPixelstick and cables to my Lazer Projector configured correctly, xLights now handles the DMX data correctly, and the Lazer Projector now does what I programmed it to do over E1.31 WiFi.  Success  :-)

Thanks again Gil for pointing me in the correct direction.

Terry

[gpoduska]

How did you connect an espixelstick physically to your projector?