Possible wireless glitch

[zman]

Thanks Dennis, doing the fire up test right now.  Show in an hour.

[zman]

Ok this is the REALLY BETA version of the Ver 1 receiver firmware. Use it in your ver 1 RX and EX/RX units. I have not even had this in a unit do to not having the ability to so if someone can throw this on a ver 1 and test so I know it works. This will be all we need as the ver1 TX will not need an update.

RJ

p.s.  N1ist (Mike) thanks again for the DMX grid it was a lifesaver working on this glitch once I got it where I could replicate it reliably. I could watch the whole 512 channels at the same time on the bench for any errors.

OK, just to ensure I am not off the deep end. This is the firmware I loaded onto my 4 Tx/Rx units. None of them are responding now to my network test.


My Tx was flashed wuith the V1 /V2 compatible firmwware is that the right one to work with the Tx/Rx?

[bisquit476]

The TXv1 uses different firmware than the TX/RXv2

[zman]

I will have to check to be sure. I had to quickly re-flash them back to the previous state for tonight.

[RJ]

Here is the way it plays.

There is only one version of the TX/RX and this is Ver2 if you have these you use the first firmware I posted for all ver 2 equipment including EX/RX receivers.

If you are using ver 1 stuff you only update the Recievers which are called either RX, or Ex/RX. They get the last firmware I posted that is called ver1 compat.

Now this is the kicker. If you have a Tx (transmitter ver1) and you never updated it to the compatible code I put out when I released the Ver 2 stuff (from the wiki) you need to update to that on the TX unit.

So .... all ver 2 items gets the new ver 2 firmware there is only one for ver 2

all ver 1 receivers get the  firmware posted here for the ver 1

all ver 1 transmitters use the last firmware I put out for them which is in the wiki.

hope this clears it up.

RJ

[zman]

RJ,

I am not sure it does. Sorry if I transposed some letters earlier. Here is what I had tonight that did not work;

Standalone Tx V1.2 with the latest wiki V1/V2 Compatible firmware I even re-flashed it again tonight when issues arose. This has been the same since 12/2 and had been working. 

Ex/Rx V1.2 and using this firmware - Ver1_compatible_receiver 12_12_2012.hex - flashed  today, I had no blinky flashy. I had to go back to the previous Ex/Rx V1/V2 compatible firmware on the Wiki - Ver1_reciever_ver2_compatible,  to get the show running tonight.

Did I miss something in translation?

[RJ]

No let me dig out one of my Ver 1 TX and check it. Maybe I missed somethign in my head that was different. If so I can have the new firmware ready for it tommorow evening.

RJ

[zman]

Thanks RJ! I would be good to not have the random flashing that I am seeing.

[rm357]

I'm using al v2 stuff.

When I put the TX about 8 ft off the ground with most of the receivers 6 inches to 2 ft above the ground, all of my "lower channel glitches" went away.

I had to pull the RX from the DMX SSR4s - I saw a lot of rebooting with these and never could achieve stable operation. Fortunately I had a second RX/TX that I could set up as a receiver for the units in that part of the yard.

I've got one RX where I replaced the reistors going to the LEDs that I am testing - used 4.7K for the power LED and 1K for the data (my highly scientific methor for selection included looking through the parts box from another project to see what I had on hand and trying them to see the biggest resistor I could use and still be able to see the LED light up). The LEDs work fine, but the RX board is still pulling between 77 and 79 ma, which seems a little high, but I haven't had tme to play with it and I was using the 3 dollar multimeter (not the good one)...
RM

[wbuehler]

Got out an updated firmware for wireless today.

Working great.   

[Dennis Cherry]

4 nights now and the wireless is working great with the new firmware.

All V2 wireless.

Did I Thank You RJ for the update.

[kylec]

I'm flicker free! 

The place I really noticed it was the Aethers.  If they were on solid for more than 10 seconds or so they would flicker bad.  I haven't seen one flicker yet since updating to the new firmware!  I still have 2 ssr4s with the old firmware and they still flicker.  I will get up on the extension ladder tomorrow and get those ones updated too.

Kyle

[kylec]

It got kind of confusing when I updated with all the firmwares that are out there now so heres a guide.  If you see the picture of the device your updating, use the firmware in that post.....

All version 2 stuff



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[kylec]

Version 1 Recievers


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[kylec]

Version 1 Transmitter


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