ok, so I come home from work, made myself 2 knew cat5 jumpers so that I know my cables were good. the others were factory made but that don't mean they were bad. I have a 1000' cat5 so I just made 2 knew ones to eliminate the cables. waited for about a minute, launched utility and nothing. as far as my computer communicating with the ED, the orange light on the ED flickers in correspondence with the transmit letters on the utility, the green light stays solid threw this process. I followed the assembly manual to a T. the 2nd build I did last night flashed all 3 strings that I had connected when I programmed, but when I went into vixen, no response. profile is set to 12,288 channels with ED as dongle. the existing pixels in my sequence work just fine.
so I had friend show up during writing this post and forgot that I had the utility set on program. out of the blue, one of the strings started flashing.