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Hardware => Lynx EtherDongle => Topic started by: arw01 on October 16, 2013,

Title: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: arw01 on October 16, 2013,

Starting from scratch and picked up from the FS board an conductor/slave/trigger kit from last years co-op to assemble.  Have an etherdongle in the current co-op.

I read that the current version of Vixen 3+ does not output in conductor format, and reading the wiki here I don't see any plugins for the etherdongle for version 3.

therefore a question comes to mind:

what's the preferred sequencing software that can output to the conductor?

Alan

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: jnealand on October 17, 2013,

I don't think you will find a preferred software.  This is one of those questions that when asked of 100 people will give you 100 different answers.  Everyone has different reasons for picking the software they use.  I'm still using Vixen 2.1 even though I also own LOR, LSP, and have tried Vixen 3 and Vixen Plus.

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: keitha43 on October 17, 2013,

LSP(lightshow pro) can export to conductor format. Xlights can convert LOR and Vixen (.Vix files) to conductor format. You might PM Smeighan to see if he has an idea on how to convert 3+ files.

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: zwiller on October 17, 2013,

While I quite like LSP and exporting to conductor is simple, LSP has a steep learning curve and there are still a few bugs that need to be worked out.  I tell everyone that there is no perfect solution and to try all programs and see what clicks for you.  If vixen 3 does, then stick with that and shoot a PM to Sean like Keith suggests.   

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: rrowan on October 17, 2013,

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While I quite like LSP and exporting to conductor is simple, LSP has a steep learning curve and there are still a few bugs that need to be worked out.  I tell everyone that there is no perfect solution and to try all programs and see what clicks for you.  If vixen 3 does, then stick with that and shoot a PM to Sean like Keith suggests.   

To be honest I would shoot Matt an email dowdybrown since he is the xLights guy.

I would also love to see xLights be able to convert vixen 3 files to the conductor and HLS files too.
Maybe if enough of us kindly ask……..

Rick R.

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: smeighan on October 17, 2013,

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While I quite like LSP and exporting to conductor is simple, LSP has a steep learning curve and there are still a few bugs that need to be worked out.  I tell everyone that there is no perfect solution and to try all programs and see what clicks for you.  If vixen 3 does, then stick with that and shoot a PM to Sean like Keith suggests.   

To be honest I would shoot Matt an email dowdybrown since he is the xLights guy.

I would also love to see xLights be able to convert vixen 3 files to the conductor and HLS files too.
Maybe if enough of us kindly ask……..

Rick R.

Xlights works with lsp,lor,Hls,vixen 2.1,2.5,vixen+. It will not work for vixen 3.

Vixen3 is the only sequencer that does not produce a file that has every cell of your sequence in a file. Vixen3 stores your sequence in a high level of xml. For example it could say do a chase on a mini tree.

Xlights cannot convert this high level file. I have talked to the vixen3 dev team, they plan on making this binary form of your sequence next year.

Bottom line, you will not have a conductor file from vixen3 this year.

Sorry,

Sean

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: rrowan on October 17, 2013,

Hi Sean

Many thanks for the information.

I appreciate you looking into it with the developers

Rick R.

Title: Re: Etherdongle with conductor with Vixen 3+
Post by: tbone321 on October 17, 2013,

Is there a good chance of the binary file being created next year or is it just one of many wan to do items?  I would really like to go with Vixen3 because I elieve that its features work well with th way I want to redesign my display but I also really want to use the Conductor because itwill make my life much easier setting up th show.