ECG-P2 and LOR S3 NOT Communicating

[Dave H]

OK, originally had problems with my P-2 but was found that it was a bad Ethernet chip which Ed replaced. (that was a previous post from last month) Great customer service from J1SYS right before Thanksgiving!!

However, I am still having issues controlling the P-2 through LOR. I’ll try to provide the current overview:

• Installed a separate Ethernet card in computer specifically for E1.31 use;
• Connected to a 4 port switch which is then connected to the P-2;
• Can connect to the P-2 using the default 10.10.10.10 address. There is one string of (50) WS2811 pixels connected and they cycle correctly through the test pattern; and
• Created a short 45 second test sequence in LOR S3 – nothing worked (I’ll circle back to this).

Went to XLights
·
Could not run the P-2 in Xlights while in multicast. Switched to unicast and all test patterns contained in Xlights work; and
· Converted the LOR test sequence to a Xlights sequence and the test sequence runs in Xlights (under unicast only).
Now back to LOR
· USB-485B connected and open control panel. Com listener recognizes universe 1 and is “listening on port 5568”
· Under network preferences I have both the DMX listener port and E1.31 port set to 5568 (have tried this both with multicast and unicast 10.10.10.10);
· All of the 50 channels in the sequence are pointing to universe 1; and
· Click play (ensuring control lights is checked) and…………………………..NOTHING
Where am I going wrong??

Fortunately I am not doing a show this year so I am not pressed to get this resolved immediately but would like to be confident in being able to run some pixels next year.

 

[ShellNZ]

Can you show us some screenshots of the P2 configuration pages?

 

[Dave H]

Main Page System Info Statistics String Stats String Config Effect Config Strobe Config IP Config XML Config Reboot Master
EthConGateway HTML configuration and diagnostic console

ConfigXML Status:		OK	[/t]
ConfigXML Network:		<network> element in XML.
Test Pattern:		Off
1	Y	WS2811	3200	1	1	50
2	N			0	0	0
3	N			0	0	0
4	N			0	0	0
5	N	WS2811	3200	1	1	1
6	N			0	0	0
7	N			0	0	0
8	N			0	0	0

[/t][/t][/t][/t][/t][/t][/t] Use the menu functions available on the upper left to configure the unit.

 

[Dave H]

EthConGateway String Statistics

IP Address:		10.10.10.10
Up Time:		0h 3m 49s
Group A (1):		334 per second
Group B (5):		per second

Str	Packet Pixel Cnt	String Pixel Cnt	String Byte Cnt	Univ Updates	Univ Overruns	Pixel Updates	Pixel Overruns
1	50	50	750	10756	256	10500	0
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

[/t][/t][/t][/t][/t][/t][/t]

 

[ShellNZ]

OK, looks like the signal is getting through as the universe is updating.

Just to save a bit of time, as I dont have a lot of it at the moment, I can if you like Teamview (http://www.teamviewer.com) into your computer and have a look at settings.

If you want to do that install the above application then come into our Chatroom and give me the 9-digit ID and 4-digit password.

 

[Dave H]

anyone else running LOR S3 to control thier ECG-P2 or P12 without issues??

 

[AAH]

Is the "control lights" remaining ticked? If it isn't then that is usually an indication that there is a universe or lor controller in the sequence that isn't being found.
To test connectivity and that there isn't a router/firewall issue I'd give da_e131 from http://www.da-share.com/software/da_e131/ a go. You can try it on unicast and multicast.

 

[Dave H]

Thanks AAH,
Download the software and in Unicast mode, the controller works like a charm. Goes through the fades and chases without any issue. Switch over to Multimode amd not a thing happens.

 

[starzen]

possibly multicast blocked in your router. IMO better off using unicast anyway. I use multiple P2's and up to a few days ago used them with LOR without problem (except for a little lag here and there). Because of the lag I switched to FPP for my show computer

 

[Dave H]

And your P2s work with LOR S3??
In unicast, multicast or both??
Did you have any problems with your setup??