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  Quote tonyjmartin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: No twinkle on certain channel
    Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:28am
Thanks Michael! Thumbs%20Up
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  Quote LightsOnLogan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:27am
Ok... we should be able to fix this fairly easily.
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  Quote ChrisL1976 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 11:40pm
Its strictly a Visualizer Issue......hooked up a controller tonight and its does twinkle the lights. They just don't show up in the Visualizer
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  Quote tonyjmartin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 3:56pm
I can answer "Yes" to 1 and 2, but not 3.  I should have my controllers out of storage in a couple days.
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  Quote LightsOnLogan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 12:40pm

Thanks... I've added this one to the list of things that need fixing.

Just to make sure I have this correct:
1. Only channel 16 of any device is affected
2. The effect doesn't render in the visualizer
3. The effect does render on the real lights
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  Quote bdkeen Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2008 at 3:42pm

Looks like this migh be just a visualizer issue. As I recall I do have some twinkles on 4-16 (since this is one of the channels that displas the fault) in some of my sequences and I recall the lights doing what they were told (twinkle) when testing via the scheduler. There's enough going on in the sequence that I never noticed just the 1 mini tree not twinkling in the visulizer.  But if you're changing to shimmer, saving, then it's back to twinkle when you re-open sort of might point at another problem too. I haven't tried that.

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Both of my problem channels are channel 16 on my controller #3 and #4. If I change the parts on my channel 16's to shimmer (which does work) and save it, the next time I open that sequence it is changed back to twinkle and not working.
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  Quote tonyjmartin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2008 at 10:07am
Now I think I understand.

I just went into a couple of my sequences, inserted some twinkle and/or shimmer commands on various channels, and channel 16 never responds to a twinkle command in the visualizer, no matter what controller#/network#/device type is selected.

BTW--I'm still using v1.0

Brandon--which of your two channels are not responding to twinkle commands in the visualizer?

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  Quote ChrisL1976 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2008 at 9:43am
Originally posted by tonyjmartin

Originally posted by ChrisL1976

Throw in some event markers....and put TWINKLE on that channel.   Nothing shows up on playback when I run it.

Have you tried fiddling with the fps (frames per second) in the sequencer?  This may or may not help.

I suspect that the reason could also be that the twinkle rate is dependent upon each D-Light controller's individual hardware settings (Remember...D-Light firmware allows you to customize the twinkle/shimmer rates, LOR does not...or at least it didn't the last time I checked.)  Aurora sends a twinkle command, and the controller just does what it has been set to do in the hardware utility.  I suppose that there could be a default twinkle rate installed in the visualizer so you would have something to look at, but this wouldn't give you a true representation of what the controllers would be doing.  For this very reason, I've never really relied upon the visualizer for anything more than checking overall appearance of the display and timing.

Because I was short on sequencing time last holiday season, I oped for some really long twinkle commands, and I set about half of my controllers to various twinkle rates with the hardware utility.  Not synchronized, but blinky-flashy nonetheless.



My example is strictly related to the Aurora visualizer.....I have not tried it with a controller hooked up yet.
Take my example, If you create channel 4-15 and 4-16......channel 15 twinkles in playback....16 does nothing.

I played with FPS and it doesn't change the issue.


Edited by ChrisL1976 - 19 Oct 2008 at 9:57am
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  Quote tonyjmartin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Oct 2008 at 9:35am
Originally posted by ChrisL1976

Throw in some event markers....and put TWINKLE on that channel.   Nothing shows up on playback when I run it.

Have you tried fiddling with the fps (frames per second) in the sequencer?  This may or may not help.

I suspect that the reason could also be that the twinkle rate is dependent upon each D-Light controller's individual hardware settings (Remember...D-Light firmware allows you to customize the twinkle/shimmer rates, LOR does not...or at least it didn't the last time I checked.)  Aurora sends a twinkle command, and the controller just does what it has been set to do in the hardware utility.  I suppose that there could be a default twinkle rate installed in the visualizer so you would have something to look at, but this wouldn't give you a true representation of what the controllers would be doing.  For this very reason, I've never really relied upon the visualizer for anything more than checking overall appearance of the display and timing.

Because I was short on sequencing time last holiday season, I oped for some really long twinkle commands, and I set about half of my controllers to various twinkle rates with the hardware utility.  Not synchronized, but blinky-flashy nonetheless.

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