Light Output Stops

[twooly]

I've tried two cards now.  I'm going to place my Halloween sequences back on it and see how it goes since those ran fine on the old firmware.

[twooly]

So I may be making head way.  Was out and about shopping so I said why not just get a third card and try another one just to rule out the chance of having bad blocks/sectors on two cards.  Ran through the show twice now and it hasn't had the issue.  Going to try a schedule now and let it run for a hour or so and see if it comes back.

[chrisatpsu]

did you format the original card before putting your files on it?  I think it had to be formatted before you made changes to it. (like adding stuff)

[twooly]

Plenty of times, I can format in my sleep  

[rrowan]

any updates?

I really think my conductor problem is my cf

Thanks

Rick R.

[twooly]

Its running right now from a schedule start and so far I haven't seen it stop in the 15 mins I've been watching it.  Ill update again here before I go to bed.

[tomwb301]

twooly,

Anything you find out, please post. Mine is doing the same thing. I have checked and rechecked and all seems good. I only seem to lose one light sequence each night, music plays, but no lights. Next sequence, all runs great.

[twooly]

I can't say for sure since I've done/tried lots of stuff with 3 different conductors.  What it looks like to me is that we are not past the problem if there is a bad memory flagged on the card and when the conductor tries to read in that bad spot it stops output until it's reset with the next sequence.  All I can say is try more cards and from my tests it looks like you should still be formatting/starting over every time you want to make a change on the card.

[tomwb301]

I'll try that and let you know how I make out. Other then that, the conductor and other equipment is working great. Just lost one sequence lights (random) last 2 nights. Tonight seems ok.

[twooly]

So I let it run tonight inside and I watched it through the show 3 times and it didn't have the issue.  I'm going to setup for an actual show but keep it inside another night and see how it runs tomorrow on my test setup.  Another card so far seems to be the trick and doing the formatting whenever I need to change things.

[twooly]

Spoke too soon looks like its back and I haven't touched a thing with my test setup inside, doing the exact same thing only doesn't seem to do it as much.

[tomwb301]

Did some observation and I had one sequence that the conductor was stopping or skipping or just playing the music. Reformatted flash card, reloaded and had same results. Reworked sequence in LSP and exported it to conductor. Problem solved. The problem is not in the hardware, it was a glitch in the sequence somewhere.

[twooly]

Did some observation and I had one sequence that the conductor was stopping or skipping or just playing the music. Reformatted flash card, reloaded and had same results. Reworked sequence in LSP and exported it to conductor. Problem solved. The problem is not in the hardware, it was a glitch in the sequence somewhere.

Its happened on every single sequence and the fact that the sequence can play fine other times makes it really odd.  My thought its the filesystem itself,how its read, or that it can't read fast enough.  Thats my 2 cents worth.

[twooly]

Reworked sequence in LSP and exported it to conductor.

To add I'm willing to try things as you can tell.  Can you tell me what reworked means/what you did?  I'm a LSP user myself also.

[tomwb301]

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