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FIXED - Conductor MP3 board
« on: November 06, 2012, »
Hi Folks,

Just a quick question. On the mp3 board if the led being on red a good thing or a bad thing?

Rick R.
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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, »
Don't know, but mine was red. I assumed (and you know what the means) that it just showed power applied.

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, »
Greetings,,,

Think of it as Rudolph's nose.   Red is good...

Yep, it's a power indicator.

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, »
Thanks

I got a RED Card Error that I assume is NOT good

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, »
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Thanks

I got a RED Card Error that I assume is NOT good

Rick R.

Rick,
I assume you meant read card error and if the CF card is in the Conductor then that's not good but if you removed it from the Conductor and put it in your computer reader then that's OK.  When you reinsert it back into the Conductor it will re-read the card and the message should go away.

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Re: Conductor "Card Error"
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, »
Nope in the Control Panel under Status the words are in Red "Card Error"

I have tried local connection and network. Regular cat5 and cross over cable. two different computers (win 7 x64 and xp)

Etherdongle works fine (it ran my show last year). Change the firmware back to etherdongle and it still works.
I have disabled my firewall and turned off the anti-virus program
I have gone over all of the solder joints and check for any problems

Not sure where to go from here.

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2012, »
Rick,
I posted this in another message (see below).  You will get "card error" until all four of these are met.


The control panel will not recognize the Conductor until you have created:

1) at least one *.seq and/or *.mp3 file on the compact flash (CF) card,
2) created a password, which will create a password.dat file on the CF card,
3) create at least one show, which will create a file *.sho on the CF card, and
4) schedule a show to run, which will create a playlist.dat file on the CF card.

All four of these must be met before the control panel will see the Conductor.

Note:

1) All files names must be 8 characters or less.
2) Do not ever delete or rename any files on the compact flash card. If you do you will have to reformat the CF card and copy your files back to the CF card before the Conductor will play your show(s).

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2012, »
Yeah I did that also

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2012, »
Rick,
The next step would be to checkout the pins on the CF card reader.  First look where the pins are bent at 90 degree to see if any of them are touching each other.  Secondly check for any solder bridges on the pins of the card reader on the PCB pads.  Then lastly check to see if any of the pins might not be solder on their pad.  The easiest way to do that would be to take something like a toothpick and attempt to move each of the card reader pins at the PCB.  If any are loose you'll need to solder them.

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2012, »
I guess with Denny's help I found the problem. About 28 pins are not soldered to the pad on the cf socket.

Can I just heat them up and attach?

Thanks

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2012, »
Well ? progress

I heated up the pins and now the status = "Not Connected"

CF card is in

ideas?

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2012, »
How is the Conductor connected?  Switch, router, direct?

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2012, »
normally I have the desktop on my network and on the same switch I have the etherdongle

just a linksys port 5 switch

I have also tried a cat5 cable between then and a cross over cable that I just made

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2012, »
YEAH!!!

I had a couple more solder problems with the cf socket

ITS WORKING NOW!!!!

I see the Conductor time and a status of Waiting

Guess now I can see if it plays anything LOL with sound

Thanks Denny

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Re: Conductor MP3 board
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2012, »
Great to hear!

Just for reference here so others know, you have to get the CF card reader working before it starts the network connection.  Problems that look like network/connection problems have typically been issues with the reader or the key files mentioned above not being on the CF card.  Generally if you had the ED working prior to adding the Conductor daughter card, you should be good to go on the communications.

If a show does not play or you know you scheduled it to run but it didn't, then you probably deleted a file or renamed a file on the CF card, which is a no no.  If you did that then copy the files off the CF to your HD, do a quick format of the CF card and copy the files back to the CF card and you're set.

Denny