Recent content by mschell

I for one have an interest in doing this and getting some of the under eave type profile. I'm in the US and would need about 30-40 of the 3 meter segments.

Brad, Can you describe how you built your frames? Or is this shown in another thread? I've got 10 P5 panels that I'm planning to mount up, have my BBB and power supply. Just waiting on my Octoscroller to come from a group buy and need to get things going... Thanks,

Actually, the refresh rate needs to be set to something like 20 or 40. Set to such a low number as yours, I believe you're telling LSP to do much more work than it needs to. And sometimes that makes LSP miss sending out an update and then the output seems jerky like you are describing. Try a...

It's interesting. The grammar on the title implies that it wasn't proofread or that the writer doesn't have good English skills. However, the text of the press release seems to be OK. There has been no new beta code released for over 3 weeks, and there are differing opinions as to the...

I figured you guys had already covered most of what I mentioned, since you did it in chat, but wanted to make sure. I'm betting that there's just something wrong with the input, so good thing you can take it back...

It's hard to tell from your sequence, but here's what I would try. Leave channel 1 at a fixed value, so the mode selected doesn't change. Either have it in the DMX pattern range or the automatic range. Leave ch 2 (motor speed) and ch 5 (Laser) at fixed value - 100 for ch 2 and 99 for ch 5...

Here's another thot. LSP has a "pattern" repository that allows folks to store frequently used patterns in a library. I believe this is stored outside the sequences, but in an XML or similar file that resides in the binary directory. So how about coming up with a way to modify the pattern...

The license code is probably for v2.0, which is the current version. v2.5 is currently in beta, and the v2 license will at least get you a decent discount on a new 2.5 license. I know that David at LSP hasn't yet announced the upgrade price. So I would definitely get LSP to get the original...

I have an interest in several of these as well, but need them in the US. DC version, since I have some 24V power supplies left over from a previous project...

The 2012 E68x Group Buy is up and running. After a few minor issues on startup, we're now running smoothly. We're hosting this group buy at: www.diyledexpress.com Orders will be taken till Thursday (Feb 9) evening, US time (UTC-5). Shipping will be invoiced later. Planned shipments...

Let's rethink the whole idea of the 75 foot length of LED strip on a controller. In simple numbers, it won't work. 75 feet is roughly 25 meters. Most RGB strip is about 30-36 LEDs/meter, and takes 20 mA per LED. So 25 * 30 * .020 Amps is 15 Amps per color. That's LOTS more than a single...

I was just in the forums over on DIYC. Be sure you go to this URL: Do It Yourself Christmas Forums

The issue with using something other than the dongle that dmoore tested with is that the program will error out with the LOR dongle. I think it's just a matter of checking the status code, and possibly modifying the code a bit to handle the slightly different timing or behavior of the LOR...

Please let us know that part number - definitely interested....

If you have an LOR USB adapter, it will work as well to program the controllers. The program can't read back the address after it sets it on the $6 controllers, but it will write to it. Also, you asked about how far away can the DMX DC controller be from the RGB strip? I would try to put...