Express Ver 5

[RJ]

Now back to our regularly schedule program.  

Heres a quick little video! LOL it was going to be longer and go into more info but the card on my camera ran full. I did not know it so I did a 5 minute presentation but only this was recorded! LOL man do I fill stupid!

Hope you enjoy.

RJ

[rrowan]

Nice job RJ

The code works great for rebooting and dmx activity light

Cheers

Rick R.

(Can't wait to get one )

[deplanche]

At least you only went 5 minutes and not 55.

[Brad]

Nice RJ.

Brad

[Made2Rock]

short and sweet.

I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT RESET BUTTON !!!!!!


Question

What drives the data link light? This year I had trouble with a cable that created a marginal signal to an express. The express would end going off into the weeds and I would have to reset the box and play with the terminator to get it running again. It turned out to be the cable but it sure had me running in circles for awhile.

[rrowan]

short and sweet.

I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT RESET BUTTON !!!!!!

UhOh

Now Keith is going to have to start another support group

RBA - Rest Button  Anonymous



Cheers

Rick R.

[RJ]

short and sweet.

I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT RESET BUTTON !!!!!!


Question

What drives the data link light? This year I had trouble with a cable that created a marginal signal to an express. The express would end going off into the weeds and I would have to reset the box and play with the terminator to get it running again. It turned out to be the cable but it sure had me running in circles for awhile.

See post #31 in this thread for that info.

RJ

[KeithTarpley]

short and sweet.

I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT RESET BUTTON !!!!!!

UhOh

Now Keith is going to have to start another support group

RBA - Rest Button  Anonymous



Cheers

Rick R.

Greetings,,,

I'm also going to have one, rBA - reset Button Anonymous...

 

Keith

[ThaiWay]

You two are too much! 

John

[rrowan]

short and sweet.

I'M GOING TO LOVE THAT RESET BUTTON !!!!!!

UhOh

Now Keith is going to have to start another support group

RBA - Rest Button  Anonymous



Cheers

Rick R.

Greetings,,,

I'm also going to have one, rBA - reset Button Anonymous...

 

Keith

oops I forgot the 'e' in reset

Sorry RJ for going off topic

Cheers

Rick R.

[satskier]

A late follow-up to a prior post RE DMX units sending status.  This is actually supported in a follow-on standard to DMX called RDM. RDM allows bi-directional communication between the DMX device and the controller, it allows the DMX controller to discover devices.  RJ would have to comment on the ability of current hardware to send DMX. I suspect this it not possible.

RJ I'm looking forward to the LE's

[David_AVD]

RDM requires that the RS485 chip be wired a little differently to what may be the case now.  It's also non-trivial to implement in code unfortunately.  It would be great to see in the future of course!

[wbuehler]

Awesome

I have a button named for me 

Looks Great

[Rod R]

RJ,

Nice short video. Wasn't sure what to expect from the controller itself.  Thought it was like the LOR and D-light controllers till I looked at the wiki and with this video, sure brings a newbe like me up to speed.  I already have 14 D-light controllers that I built.  I like features I see so far especially the on on-board programming reset button (will come in handy) the output LED's and the addition of the resistors really helps too.  No more building snubbers.  I was about to build 80 more of those things.  Very cool design been hanging out at DIY and PC both good sites.  Been using LEDTRIKS and Triks-C  for 2 years now not sure why I did not check out this site sooner, not sure what I was thinking.   Looking forward to coop on the dongle and the wireless.   

[Garyi]

Quick Question. Is the PBC size the same as V4 so same case PN ?