Ok, so I found that one of my sequences plays back incorrectly whether I use .lms or .xseq ... so I'm calling that a bad sequence for now.
Since my show is about to be dismantled in a day anyways, I decided to see about running my LOR boxes in DMX mode. OMG, I had no idea
it would be THIS EASY !! Since I previously had needed to re-assign my LOR boxes to use consecutive UNIT #'s i.e. 01,02....09,0A,0B,0C,0D,0E,0F,10,11 ... I read
that this also determines the starting DMX address. I had previously re-flashed my LOR boxes (while connected) to the latest firmware which supports
DMX control on the PC16 controllers.
Then I was thinking of how to do this and it dawned on my that I could use my extra Lynx Dongle to replace the LOR USB adapter I had been using the run the LOR
boxes via LOR protocol.
So anyways, I re-flashed my spare Pixelnet Dongle to DMX and connected it to my DMX to LOR convertor cable ... added a coupler ... and then hooked it up to my LOR
network CAT5 instead of the LOR adaptor I had been using since 2008. THen I went into xlights and deleted the LOR network for the first 272 channels and then added
a new LynX DMX network for my first 272 channels instead ... then tried it ... and WOW ... it worked perfect.
I swear DMX is way faster and less laggy than using LOR. I wish this had been emphasized more clearly to me previously. OMG, I think most of my problems were because the
LOR protocol is so slow. So running it two one Lynx Dongle to DMX control the 17 LOR controllers in DMX and then the other Dongle to PIXELNET to the SS HUB
for the rest ... was amazing !! I had never seen my show look so good before. I swear I must have grown used to the lag ... so watching my megatrees spinning with no lag
was like putting glasses for the first time. My world had never looked BETTER !!
I ran them with .xseq files (converted from .lms files using latest xlights version) and it was like a show I had never seen before. BETTER !!!! WOW!