Please help

My show is supposed to start in less than 2 hours and I suddenly have no output to my controllers.

Hardware is all D-light, software is Aurora 1..0.69

Everything was working ok 2 nights ago when I tested things. I noticed that my 3 controllers, were all on different firmware versions. So today I updated them all to 1.19. Then when I started testing I noticed that no channel would stay lit, it would switch on, then turn off, if it came on at all. It looked like it would mostly ignore the commands except for the ramps, it would do them.

So I unplugged all the controllers from the network except the first and started playing with it. If I put new data into the sequencer it worked just fine, but all the old data didn't work. So I downgraded the controller to 1.17 and same thing. Hooked all controllers back up and was just runnign sequencing trying to see if I could get a better idea of what happened, and all the lights went out and stayed out. Getting nothing now, and the LED on the controller is flashing like it isn't hooked up to a network, while the sequence is playing and outputting to the lights.

I tried deleting and recreating the network in Aurora. Not sure what else to do.

If I go into the hardware utility it looks like everything is fine, and can see all controllers and all the channels respond properly.

???? What the heck is going on? I can't imagine my show will start tonight,   I need help please!

v1.19 firmware will not work with Aurora.  Use v1.20 with the EEPROM hack (http://www.d-light.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=14851#p14851), OR v1.17.  Any firmware below v1.16 is not recommended.

Thanks for the tips. I didn't know 1.19 was incompatible with Aurora.

I got it working less than an hour before the show started last night. I put firmware 1.17 on my first controller (the one that was displaying the problems in the first place. And then realized that when I deleted and re-created the network, I forgot to set it to the proper COM port, so it was still set to Com1, changed that to COM4 and it started working again.

I am still having some issues, but the show runs for the most part. The problems may be that I have 1.19 on my other 2 controllers. I will downgrade them to 1.17 now.

Thanks

I feel your pain. Been there, done that, felt like abandoning it all.


Many of my problems have been cured by staying at 1.16. I had tried 1.17 and even 1.20 and it didn't do anything but misery to my cause. I know it is a pain having to redo the firmware on your boxes but just for the heck of it, try 1.16 to see if it goes right for you.
You're still early in the season unless your show was only up for this weekend? Keep coming back and we'll try to find out the problem, one way or another.

When I had 1.20 as firmware, I had channels that forgot to turn on when in fact they should have been on. I went back to 1.16 and problems cleared away.I guess that's the game we play. There a reason why it isn't for everyone to animate lights....if it was, everybody would have them. We wouldn't be unique anymore!