1.0.41 (1.1 preview release 3) is here!

 

8 channels

each channel is a 100 count multi mini string, giving 800 lights per arch.

 

 

Please note on the opening frame the two arches are on. These are not supposed to be on (at least my sequence has supposedly turned them off). If you watch carefully there are pairs of arches (group of 16 channels) that either get stuck on or turn on semi randomly.

 

One other note the opening just turns all the channels on one group at a time then turns them off all at once. All the leaping arches are supposed to turn on but you can see that they do not. Also there is a star on the Mega tree that dosen't come on either. You can see that there is also some lag in getting everything turned off. The lights in the left upper bay window is on a d-light controller that dosen't go off period.

 

This display consisit of a mixture of d-light controllers and DMX equipment run by an LOR iDMX1000 controller. The problem mentioned above is generated through the iDMX to DMX channels.

 

However there are occassional sticking channels with the d-light controllers as well.

 

You will also note the LARGE delay between the opening sequence and the TSO song. The show is being run with the scheduler and that delay is produced by the scheduler. This sequence has 416 channels defined.

 

The show was running on a machine dedicated to running this show and that's all that was installed. The machine was running XP home with 2GB of memory.

 

Now that we are heading into the 2009 season it's time to start discussing these issues.

 

 

There's a single issue (that cascade to a few issues) that drove me insane... The Stuck open window, then the following unable to open anything because I'm stuck "decompiling".

 

I'll start by saying that I added a new "controller", then went and started to draw. I drew 7 C9 lines (one per channel), then Aurora just closed. No error, no warning, no backup, no beep, just gone.

 

Okay, so I started over, all's well, Then I went to rename a channel from "1/11/10" to "1/11/10 - Garage 1" but I accidentally put in an "=" so I arrowed over to the = and put a -. Then the edit window was stuck open. Couldn't get it to close.

After killing Aurora though process manager, I'm stuck loading anything. This time I'm stuck at "Opening Table: Events".

 

Hopefully we can get this fixed, it's the only thing that's obnoxiously annoying in the software and the only real bug that I have.

 

Now I have to reboot and loose all of my work stuff that's up.

 

And... I did have an error. I had an area high-light to play, I was zoomed in ll the way looking at the .2sec ramp and I hit play. It started to do the compile thing, then errored out with a "could not load picture" error.

I could not find the error log for the exact error, and I could not reproduce.

I've definitely seen the refresh points working

 

Now - getting a play list or PC radio to play is pretty good.  But - How do you get everything to stop when the lights go out (show over and closing sequence played) and you want silence..   In the testing I've done and on first show night after 1.0.41 Borealis never stops..  When I used the non-show audio option, once the show is over and the run-once closing sequence plays, it just goes back to playing the non-show stuff. Status bar shows waiting for next show. Never enters the stop state and ends.

 

This is ok if you have breaks of audio only between show schedules, but sooner or later you might want to shutdown. Or if you don't have breaks between schedules things never shutdown and end - From what I can determine it appears you're stuck in a endless loop until you manually click the Stop button or close the application.

 

I really like how the play list option works but had to abandon the thought of using it at this time because of the inability to end without manual intervention.