not really worried, just busy night at work and trying to fire this puppy up.
When I load start vixen, and configure the plug in, i am offered com port 1 or 15. When originally a dmx dongle it auto assigned to com port 12. I switched it to 15 in hopes of not getting any conflicts.
Now set at com9, 115200 bps, 8 bit, non parity, stop bit =1 all confirmed in device manager with the FDTI driver.
Vixen output set at com9. With the pixelnet dll selected, but not checked, it plays the sequence w/o green data light
With com9, and the pixelnet plug in set the same, and is checked, it says com9 not found.
as stated before, when flashed with the dmx hex- it works fine ( have green led and drives some dmx decoders) so I think I can rule out the cable/ usb port / dongle board and associated componants.
Thanks for all your support, really appreciated !!
ps just reflashed after complete clear and verify- check sum = 613b
so in theory, it is correct.....still no blinky green. trying to connect to hub (Check sum 811E) next and onto SSC's (check sum=A520) and ribbons....
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installed vixen on another machine- loaded all dll's and green blinky has made my night !
wrote hex to hub- no activity either pixelnet or DMX -both jumpers set to pixelnet 1 and DMX universe also set to one.
Flashed test hex to SSC- works fine- but nothing when trying to use utility-
The work progresses !!! more tonight when I come into work....