I finished building 2 etherdongles, 2 active hubs and 14 SSC v3's.
Today i used my Pickit 3 and set all the PIC, checksums values seemed ok.
Testing, nothing.
It was lot of assembly, did i have a solder bridge? Did i program pics correctly.
I dont own any dmx devices, just RGB strings.
So after a few hours of trying stuff, i contacted pk (gary) who lives a half hour away.
I packed up all my power supplies, ether dongles, ssc's and drove to his house.
Gary was just finishing putting up his Halloween lights.
We first tried both of my etherdongles instead of his, both worked.
We then tried both of my smart hubs, they both worked.
we then tried the 4 SSc's i had brought, nothing.
Now gary notices that i have put the wire on pin 14 instead of pin 15 on the modified ssc's.
fixed the one wire, everything works at his house.
As payment, i helped Gary get a local Nutcracker install on his machine.
Come home, try Vixen, cant seem to get it to talk. I obviously must have something wrong. I see the Pixelnet as a device to choose, but configuration only talks about com ports, i was thinking i would see my IP address (192.168.1.225) in a pull down someplace.
So, next switch to try HLS. Takes about an hour of reading the tutorials, but the configuration for pixelnet E31 worked perfectly.
Created a single strand effect and dropped it on HLS Pixel Plane.
All my lights are blinking.
Wow! You only get this feeling once, your first lights.
Now i am ready to create more effects.
I have a 30'x30'x spider web on the fron of my house with 512 pixels attached to the ropes. I need to creates some new effects for it.
thanks to all who helped.
sean
