ItsMeBobO Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 If you stretch out the 100 bulbs, the channel layout will look like this. 50 49 ... 2 1 controller 1 2 .. 49 50This will result in Sequencing craziness. To do a chase across a single controller of 100 you will need a track to reverse 50 RGB channels.Can we have a hardware utility / firmware option to set which end of the string is channel 1 ? Swapping between the controller end and the far end. If we had that option and set the first 50 to reverse.. then we would have 1 .. 50 controller 1 .. 50 and be able to chase all the way across.The CCR has the same problem. If you want two arch controllers to share an enclosure, you put the enclosure in the middle. This forces you into the same arrangement. Then you cant sweep through the two arches in a continuous motion without reversing all the channels for the second arch.Same issue with macros. If you want two arches side by side to do the same motion, you need to use the sister macro command instead of the same one. 1&2 instead of both 1. This is due to the macro being based on toward/away controller versus toward away from whereever channel 1 is.It has not been stated clearly. But it seems to me that the CCB will appear like two consecutive CCR controllers in the HWU. The DIO does this as well. If it is seen as two controllers, then the macro modes will not cross the controller. Effectively preventing the macros from chasing across the full 100 and instead stopping in the middle where the controller is.
heystew Posted January 19, 2011 Posted January 19, 2011 I ran into a similar situation with my RGB lights from responsebox this year. I didn't have macros to deal with so that probably simplified my case a bit, but I did find a work around. I re-ordered the channels in the S2 to be in left to right order, rather than logical order.I actually cheated and did this by hacking the XML template file to reverse the order of the first 50 channels rather than dragging them in the sequencer.
LightORamaDan Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 heystew wrote: I ran into a similar situation with my RGB lights from responsebox this year. I didn't have macros to deal with so that probably simplified my case a bit, but I did find a work around. I re-ordered the channels in the S2 to be in left to right order, rather than logical order.I actually cheated and did this by hacking the XML template file to reverse the order of the first 50 channels rather than dragging them in the sequencer.The CCB controller will make two strings look like one continious string....Dan
DownTown Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 LightORamaDan wrote: The CCB controller will make two strings look like one continious string....DanContinuing from Dan's thought......so that if you run the two strands parallel to each other (between adjacent columns of solar panels for instance ), the sequencing would be backwards from one to the other?Just trying to map out how my channels will have to be set up.Thanks a lot.D.T.
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