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Software => Vixen => Topic started by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

Title: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

 I can't get channels to plug in to attachment plugins.

I also get a a error message from test channel.

I have WIN 7 32 bit home. I had someone check the hard ware on XP every thing OK.

See attachments.

  

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: Randy_A on December 02, 2010,

check your total number of channels..

Randy

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: castortiu on December 02, 2010,

Got similar problem, I hope is the same.

If the problem you are getting is in the scheduler make sure Vixen can find the audio files. In my case I had the audio files on different directories than "Audio" then vixen edit area was playing fine but the scheduler was blowing.

I spent a whole day to make Vixen works because of the huge amount of bugs, I really need to sit down and try xLights.

Cas.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: rrowan on December 02, 2010,

Looks like you didn't setup the channels. How about the plugin setup also

Why do you use all capital letters in the subject?

See attached

Rick R.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

I tried to set the channels in the attachment plugin. It would not take it.


Here is another error message from the test channel.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: rrowan on December 02, 2010,

See if these videos that Bill did a while back

I believe you are missing some basic steps which is causing the errors and confusion

http://www.vimeo.com/8593498

http://www.vimeo.com/8593544

Hope that helps

Rick R.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: lineman on December 02, 2010,

When your setting up you plugins are highlighting Enttec dmx pro I see youve check the box put have you highlighted it . It should let you set up the plugins then

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: rrowan on December 02, 2010,

Are you just trying vixen or do you have the dongle connected?

You can use Vixen, create sequences and just the adjustable preview without the dongle connected.
Only enable the dongle when its connected and you want to see real lights

Cheers

Rick R.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

I have already created some sequences.  I have the dongle and LE connected and trying to test and play.

I have higlighted the plug in use.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

I just try to play a sequence. It wouldn't play. This was the error message.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: rrowan on December 02, 2010,

Ok

I will try this One more time

You need to set the number of channels for the dongle

like I have in my seq. The first time you ignored my highlight of your setup.

Rick R.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

 I did set the plugin channels in the Attachment plugins. It may not be holding.
The hard wearware work on XP.

OK I closed out Vixen.  And reopened Vixen. Now the other sequences are working as a test without hardware. Will not work with hardware.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: memphislights on December 02, 2010,

Set the number of channels for your plugin to 1..512 like the image below.

(http://diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Vixen_Dongle_Plugin_Setup_01.JPG)

Verify the comm port...

Open the device manager:      Start / Run / and then type          mmc devmgmt.msc     in the box

Under ports, locate the communications port, Com1, Com2, etc.
In your case, you should have a COM5 in the list of comm ports.

Sometimes you need to change it from the default comm port assigned to a new one.
Change the comm port to something like 8 instead, save the setting, unplug the dongle and replug it in again.

http://diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting_Vixen (http://diylightanimation.com/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting_Vixen)

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 02, 2010,

OK started from scratch. No error messages. Will the LE lights on the board come on threw the test or do you have to hook up to lights test.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: Rainlover on December 02, 2010,

The channel LEDs will light up when you test the channel without plugging in lights.

John

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 04, 2010,

I am going nuts. I'm riding tonight  in a parade. Every thing worked OK for a while. Till I tried to work on another sequence. Now things are going really bad.  Nothing works now. The picture test will not close. The plugin com will not work. I have changethe com.  I even down loaded a new Vixen in seems to work. I tried to down load my old sequences from the old down load and that doesn't work. All that work is gone.

Mort


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Here are some of the error messages.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: smartcontrols on December 04, 2010,

I know you are rushed, but I have found, if it worked before my problem is usually going to be something simple, something I over looked. (did I turn the computer on <fp.) Take a deep breath and look at it again.


These are the steps I would try

It looks like Vixen thinks the dongle is on com port 8, but windows has assigned it a different com port.

 Go into windows device manager and see what com port your dongle is actually using and set Vixen to use the same one.

Then reboot your computer so that everything that maybe using it is released.

Then when you plug the dongle in you should hear the windows beep. (make sure your USB cable is plugged in tightly on both sides)

 Then open vixen and see if it is working.

If not is it a V2 dongle and do you get the lights?

are you using a profile for your sequences?


-Jeff

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: memphislights on December 04, 2010,

edit:  Did the cable possible come loose?


Turn off the preview when you are using the dongle, seems to cut down on the headaches.

make sure you aren't trying to manually run a sequence if you have one scheduled to run at the same time, they butt heads.

I have had better luck as posted earlier using a comm port other than the one that windows assigns by default.  I think that Sittinguphigh might have changed his comm port based on that suggestion.

if you had 2.1 and  downloaded the 2.5 version of Vixen, I don't think that the sequences are 100% compatible

and what Smartcontrols said,  relax...

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sakone1 on December 04, 2010,

What area do you live in? Someone might be able come by and check your setup/

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 05, 2010,

Parade is done and gone. Well I missed it. That was so disapointing all the work.
Well I can start working for next years Parade.
If I can fix this problem I can do afew christmas rides around town.

To start with I have changed the com port a few times in the device manger using properties with the USB Serial Port. It still show wrong port when bringing in the error message.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: smartcontrols on December 05, 2010,

Sorry you missed your parade.
If you can bring your dongle and computer over today, I will see if I can help you find the issue.
I should be in the yard all day today.

-Jeff

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: RJ on December 05, 2010,

I am looking at your errors and there is ome strang stuff in there?

Are you carrying a Ledtriks on your horse?

If not the issue looks to me like you are trying to run the Ledtricks User interface ?

And what plug in is in your setup set to com5?  Cause it is not finding com5.

RJ

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: memphislights on December 05, 2010,

Wasn't that a more of a problem in Vixen 2.5?  Vixen 2.5 was less than reliable for us, so we stayed with the 2.1.x versions.

I think that you just had to remove the \ui\ledtriksui.dll

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 06, 2010,

No Ledtriks on the horse?  

By the way some of the sequences do work.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: memphislights on December 06, 2010,

thought of one more thing.  if you were using the scheduler, did you leave the cross fade setting at 0?

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 07, 2010,

It looks like some thing to do with the dongle. This all started when I pluged in the dongle and plugin the  com setting. I played them on a single play. No scheduler.  

I decided to put Vixen on my flash drive. Then down load Vixen clean this is what error message it gave me.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: lonewolf41 on December 09, 2010,

It's not anti-virus or a firewall messing with you is it??

My $0.02,
-Keith

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 09, 2010,

 I will try dissconnecting my firewall. But will that have any effect on running Vixen program?

I started a new down load of vixen without changing over the old sequences.

The old program is on a flash drive. I taken out all the com applications. Seem like a alot of errors go away.
I will try again connecting the dongle.

So far one error message from the old Vixen with new sequence? Don't understand that one.

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: batdive on December 09, 2010,

What version of vixen are you running?

Are these sequences you downloaded from some place or made?

Are you using a profile with them or what?

When you unplug the dongle and uncheck the DMX Pro in the plugins does the sequence run without issues?

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: sittinguphigh on December 09, 2010,

Now all the sequences work in test mode except one. Running 2.1. 

When I try to play the test sequence it will not play and two error message comes up.

Maybe I should start a new sequence and copy over this one.

And by the way can I copy over the old sequences program I made to the  top the new program?

Title: Re: VIXEN WILL NOT WORK WITH LYNX EXPRESS.
Post by: batdive on December 10, 2010,

Sounds like you either have the wrong profile attached or some bad info in the sequence.


Easiest way to fix it is to go through windows explorer to where you have the sequences.  Right click on the sequence you are having issues with and open it with "notepad".  This allows you to see the sequence.  You should look for a section that has <Plugin> and see what DMX is set up and the com with it to make sure it is the right one.  Also look for the section of "Profile" if you are using one and make sure it is the right one.

Hope this helps.

-JS