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I have finally bought everything I need to migrate away from the SSC-32 board for my Skeleton Quartet and switch over to DMX using VSA to program it all.
I thought I had it all ready to go. I bought all the BoC boards (5 of them), I downloaded the configuration software and configured each card for the specific DMX addresses for each device listed in my VSA program.
Each BoC board worked fine using the configuration software and I committed the configuration for each card to each BoC's flash memory.
Then I tried to run the cards using events defined in VSA. That's where it all falls apart. I was getting results from one card, but nothing from the other 4. I renumbered everything after noticing that some cards had overlapping addresses, even though they were on devices which weren't being used on one of the cards. I got rid of all those potential conflicts and re-addressed all the affected lined in my VSA program. I tried again.
This time, none of the cards did anything. No movement on any of the servos.
I did test each card, back when one of the cards was working, I flashed each card with that configuration and ran my program. Each card did work that way, so I know the cards are not faulty. It must be some setting or something in the way I have programmed them, but I just spent 5 hours troubleshooting and came up with dust.
If anyone out there has practical experience using BoC cards with VSA, Please chime in. I will be happy to fill you in on all the details and share the routine and configuration files so that some solution can be found. I am, of course, running out of time fast!
I am using VSA Hobbyist version.
I am using the EnTec Open interface.
I am using official DMX cabling.
My ports, addresses and device types are correct as best as I can tell.
Please help me if you can!
Bob
I thought I had it all ready to go. I bought all the BoC boards (5 of them), I downloaded the configuration software and configured each card for the specific DMX addresses for each device listed in my VSA program.
Each BoC board worked fine using the configuration software and I committed the configuration for each card to each BoC's flash memory.
Then I tried to run the cards using events defined in VSA. That's where it all falls apart. I was getting results from one card, but nothing from the other 4. I renumbered everything after noticing that some cards had overlapping addresses, even though they were on devices which weren't being used on one of the cards. I got rid of all those potential conflicts and re-addressed all the affected lined in my VSA program. I tried again.
This time, none of the cards did anything. No movement on any of the servos.
I did test each card, back when one of the cards was working, I flashed each card with that configuration and ran my program. Each card did work that way, so I know the cards are not faulty. It must be some setting or something in the way I have programmed them, but I just spent 5 hours troubleshooting and came up with dust.
If anyone out there has practical experience using BoC cards with VSA, Please chime in. I will be happy to fill you in on all the details and share the routine and configuration files so that some solution can be found. I am, of course, running out of time fast!
I am using VSA Hobbyist version.
I am using the EnTec Open interface.
I am using official DMX cabling.
My ports, addresses and device types are correct as best as I can tell.
Please help me if you can!
Bob