***** SOLVED ***** No Output in Vixen To My MR-16

[Nightowlz1966]

I just finished building my first MR-16 and Ether Dongle Thursday evening then
went over to a friends house today and got him to flash my chips.
We tested the MR-16 with the DMX tester and it works fine, we then flashed the
etherdongle with dmx firmware.
Then I installed Vixen on my windows 7 laptop and added the ether dongle plugin and setup
and setup one dmx universe channels 1-512  plugged the ether dongle straight into the laptop
and the mr-16 boards and sent out a test signal to the channels we had setup on the mr-16... 
I am getting flashing lights on the the ethernet input but not getting any output to my mr-16
What do i need to try
Thanks
Brian F

[rm357]

The 513 may be causing an issue. The first DMX universe is 1-512.
RM

[Nightowlz1966]

The 513 may be causing an issue. The first DMX universe is 1-512.
RM

I am sorry that was a typo  it was suppose to read  512
Edited Post just a moment ago

[rrowan]

Try the older version of the Etherdongle Vixen plugin. Its in the software section of the wiki.
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Remove the newer version before adding in the older version (ver 1)

Rick R.

[MrChristmas2000]

Got mine working. I had one of those  Doh moments. I had forgot to disable my notebooks wireless interface and once I did that the ED came up working.

I did use the V1 driver but I am now going back and try the V2 driver to see if it continues to work. Will Advise.

[MrChristmas2000]

Made the change to the V2 of the driver and 'It did not work'.

Put it back to V1 and the Edongle began working again.

[Nightowlz1966]

Got mine working. I had one of those  Doh moments. I had forgot to disable my notebooks wireless interface and once I did that the ED came up working.

I did use the V1 driver but I am now going back and try the V2 driver to see if it continues to work. Will Advise.

Well I guess mine should have worked if we had turned off the wireless also LOL

Hey Tom Thanks for all the help.

Brian

[Nightowlz1966]

Update:

Turning off the wireless on my laptop was the solution and now my EtherDongle and Mr16 are working fine
plugged straight into the network port on my laptop.


Thanks
Brian F

[chrisatpsu]

just remember, if you plug a dmx device directly into your etherdongle,you are limiting yourself to just the first dmx universe (the first 512 channels)

you'll need a combiner used backwards to split the cable into the 4 universes that the equipment can see.

[Nightowlz1966]

just remember, if you plug a dmx device directly into your etherdongle,you are limiting yourself to just the first dmx universe (the first 512 channels)

you'll need a combiner used backwards to split the cable into the 4 universes that the equipment can see.

Thanks for the heads up Chris,  I am currently waiting for the current Smart String Co-op to finish so I will have a combiner that I can run
as a de-combiner LOL......  I am still a newbie but learning fast on what I need to be doing.  I  have a few things on order from Ray to play
with.