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Hardware => Lynx Express => Topic started by: joshuashu on December 06, 2014,

Title: LOR with Lynx
Post by: joshuashu on December 06, 2014,

I have 2 LOR units using a lor dongle, then I have a cross over cable plugged into my first. Lynx, over to another then to a few 3 channel dmx controllers. I can not get the Lynx controllers to work with LOR , what am I doing wrong. 

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: jnealand on December 06, 2014,

Lynx only works with DMX.  You are using a non DMX dongle.  If you had a lynx dongle and the simple cat5 conversion cable in the wiki, it would work.  Or if you had the LOR IDMX dongle that would be another choice, but you have to get rid of the LOR USB485 dongle.

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: joshuashu on December 06, 2014,

LOR speaks dmx with its dongle, I have my LOR units outputting dmx

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: tbone321 on December 06, 2014,

What exactly do you mean by crossover cable?

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: joshuashu on December 06, 2014,

A cat 5 cable that cross the pins to dmx , LOR uses 5 and 6

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: caretaker on December 07, 2014,

Make sure your "crossover" cable is as follows:
DMX Dongle   LOR   Signal
WHT/OR (1)   BLUE (4)
ORANGE (2)   WHT/BLUE (5)
SO the blue wire goes to the orange white spot and the white blue goes to the orange spot. No other wires needed.

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: Jeffl on December 07, 2014,

I used the first picture on this link for the pin numbers.

http://diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Light-O-Rama_Controllers#Helpful_links_to_Use_LOR_equipment_with_DLA

I used the last diagram on this page for the pinouts.

http://diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=General_Information_on_Dongle_Connections

It took me a few tries the first time to get the pins in the right order.

I never had any luck with the LOR USB dongle but mine was older.  The newer ones are supposed to work.

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: DonFL on December 07, 2014,

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Have you connected Express direct to the dongle, no LOR controllers in between, test with either LOR software, or xlights? As Jeffl mentions, the LOR usb485 is not known for stellar performance as a dmx dongle.

Also doublecheck your channel config and ensure universe, Express start channel, and LOR channel assignments, are correct.

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: joshuashu on December 07, 2014,

I got it to work, my cross over cable was wrong. Had pins reversed.

Title: Re: LOR with Lynx
Post by: Jeffl on December 07, 2014,

Been there.  Done that.  Many times.