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Can we get a solid 1.X date, or if needed (as far as I'm concerned), drop the 1.X update and only aim at 2.0 and call it Jan of 2011?

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Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Topic: Upcoming Releases Posted: 06 May 2010 at 5:50pm
	Less hooks in Windows always sounds good. Can we get a solid 1.X date, or if needed (as far as I'm concerned), drop the 1.X update and only aim at 2.0 and call it Jan of 2011?
	Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. D-Light users Unite!

LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Apr 2010 at 11:34am
	PG, The installer for the new version was trashing installs once again. We switched to a different vendor to resolve this but ran into other problems with the new installer. I'm now reworking a section of Aurora to allow it to run installer free (XCopy install; runnable from a USB drive without installation).


Pony_God Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Sep 2008 Location: Naples, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 551	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Apr 2010 at 8:10am
	Understandable to a point, but we're at the 8 month late mark now... If you remember, we were supposed to have the update in September for the 2009 season, not just in time for the 2010 season. Now, being a programmer, I do realise there are unexpected delays and setbacks, but I've fired people that wanted to have the final product six months late and I know that if my current application upgrade is one month late, that there will be serious reprecusions to pay, possibly includeing the entire project being scrapped, and myself being fired. I realise that Aurora is not Microsoft, and that there is not a large team working on it, but I think that we are serriously pushing the reasonable delay timeframe.
	Fine. You're so smart you rig up the lights. D-Light users Unite!

bdkeen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Location: Easton,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 380	Quote Reply Posted: 28 Apr 2010 at 12:06pm
	Now in late April.. Do you believe this slippage in 1.1 will also result in 1.2 being delayed? My interest is in the DMX version (1.2).. For me it's understandable to have delays, I'd much sooner see more of the bugs out of a release version. This post is purely driven by curiosity.


BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 21 Apr 2010 at 6:07pm
	Will this update fix the importing of channels? It seems each time I import channels from a previously sequenced song, it will take an eternity and finally crash on me without doing what's supposed to happen. Unless I'm not doing it right which could well be a possibility.


LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 02 Apr 2010 at 12:22pm
	Just updating this thread since the release obviously didn't happen in late March... The delay is because we are fixing issues with the installer for version 1.1. Testing has shown that all of the "uninstall/reinstall/reboot a dozen times" problems from the past several versions were about to blow up on us again with the 1.1 installation. Switching installers wasn't part of the 1.1 schedule, so it has set us back a couple weeks.


JohnnyL Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Pre-Order User Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Location: Merced Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 67	Quote Reply Posted: 26 Feb 2010 at 10:16am
	I just wanted to say thanks for looking into the RGB & scheduler issues. John
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BigDPS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Beta Testers Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 471	Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 6:18pm
	Well all these changes will be very welcomed to this sequencer. Not having my wife hit me in the middle of the night and wake me up to inform me that our display has turned on again will be a blessing as well.


Comporder1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List DMX Joined: 11 Dec 2007 Location: Brookhaven, MS Online Status: Offline Posts: 163	Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 4:25pm
	FYI.... Dropped networks have also been caused by EMI near the adapter or network/USB cabling. I've had my radio tx lock up my USB485 adapter. Someone else found a motor near his cabling caused his adapter to lock up.
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LightsOnLogan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3187	Quote Reply Posted: 19 Feb 2010 at 3:11pm
	Sticking channels were tracked to two issues: 1. Some D-Light firmware versions are known to cause channels to stick. 2. There are some bad versions of the FTDI drivers out there (Windows Update pushed at least one of them). In addition to sticky channels, bad drivers can also cause severe lag and/or loss of networks (there appears to be a race condition within some driver versions where the adapter can be both closing and opening simultaneously and as a result neither happens). The issue is only compounded by changes FTDI made to their driver for Windows 7 compatibility which have caused a performance hit in the XP/Vista world. Sticking channels and dropping networks are not an Aurora issue. Testing to determine which driver version is the correct one for Aurora is still pending (lots of system/adapter version combinations to test).