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I have been using my notebook the past 3 years to program and run my shows. It is an older unit with Windows XP. I figure it is time to make the swap to a newer unit. Regarding the controllers, what all is involved with the switch? Will I need to do some type of an upgrade to the controllers like firmware? If so, what is the best way to do so? I have 16 - 1602w's. Do I need to plug them in and chain them all together or do them each separately?

Just looking for input to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Thanks in advance.
Corey

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chowell wrote:

I have been using my notebook the past 3 years to program and run my shows. It is an older unit with Windows XP. I figure it is time to make the swap to a newer unit. Regarding the controllers, what all is involved with the switch? Will I need to do some type of an upgrade to the controllers like firmware? If so, what is the best way to do so? I have 16 - 1602w's. Do I need to plug them in and chain them all together or do them each separately?

Just looking for input to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Thanks in advance.
Corey


Nothing would have to be done to the controllers. Does not matter if you are running XP or Windows 7. The controllers could care less.

As far as updating the firmware on controllers. It is recommended that you that you have only one at a time hooked up.
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Ok thanks. I guess what I'm asking is will the controllers not run properly without a firmware update or does the firmware not have anything to do with the operating system?

Thanks again.
Corey

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chowell wrote:

Ok thanks. I guess what I'm asking is will the controllers not run properly without a firmware update or does the firmware not have anything to do with the operating system?

Thanks again.
Corey


Short answer:

Controller firmware has nothing to do with your computers operating system.





What version of LOR's software are you running?

What version of firmware are you running?

If you plan on upgrading/updating your LOR software a firmware update MAY be required to take advantage of some feature that in the LOR upgrade/update.
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Hey Corey are you using the old laptop for anything else? If not, why not just clean up the xp machine and make it the dedicated show computer? You can install the software onto your new win 7 computer to sequence, but leave the XP one for running the shows.

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Hey Corey,
Jim has the right idea, run the show on an old XP machine and use the Win 7 for sequencing. There is really not much different in Windows 7, except the file location.

Be aware, if you are not, that the My Docs & LOR folder is in a different location in Windows 7.

Windows XP is something like

C:Documents and SettingsPaulMy DocumentsLight-O-Rama

and your Windows 7 will be like

C:UsersPaulDocumentsLight-O-Rama

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paulanator wrote:

Windows XP is something like

C:Documents and SettingsPaulMy DocumentsLight-O-Rama

and your Windows 7 will be like

C:UsersPaulDocumentsLight-O-Rama

I objected at first, but then I saw the wisdom of setting the LOR directory to

C:Light-O-Rama

I put it in the same place on all my computers, so now I can copy sequences, shows, schedules, etc. just by putting the files on a USB drive and copying them.
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Steven wrote:

paulanator wrote:
Windows XP is something like

C:Documents and SettingsPaulMy DocumentsLight-O-Rama

and your Windows 7 will be like

C:UsersPaulDocumentsLight-O-Rama

I objected at first, but then I saw the wisdom of setting the LOR directory to

C:Light-O-Rama

I put it in the same place on all my computers, so now I can copy sequences, shows, schedules, etc. just by putting the files on a USB drive and copying them.


I wonder why LOR does not default to C:Light-O-Rama?

Like you said, it certainly would make for easier copying from one computer to another.
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Paul Roberson wrote:

I wonder why LOR does not default to C:Light-O-Rama?

Like you said, it certainly would make for easier copying from one computer to another.

I'm not a computer programmer, but I would suspect it has something to do with the Windows operating system, and what steps developers must follow when writing programs to run on Windows.

That said, you can always run the LORPost.exe file (in your LOR Program directory) to change the location of your default LOR folder.
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I have a lor.bat in my startup folder that looks like this:
@subst s: c:drop_boxLight-O-Rama
on my sequencing and my show computer.
LOR is setup to use S: for all my files.
Dropbox is configured to sync across the lan, and handles backing up for me too.

Full disclosure: if you use http://db.tt/mli9Ukq to signup for dropbox we both get an extra 250 MB of space.

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Thanks for all the input guys. I have just grown tired over the last 3 years on using the notebook. I actually use a larger monitor so it helps but the notebook has a loud fan in it and for some reason it is just getting to me this year. The new computer is an all-in-one touch screen so it is almost as mobile as the notebook. I would just hate to do a bunch of work on the new one and have it not work at setup time. If you guys think of anything else please let me know.

Thanks much!!!

Corey

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jimswinder wrote:

khawes wrote:
Full disclosure: if you use http://db.tt/mli9Ukq to signup for dropbox we both get an extra 250 MB of space.

I used your link to sign up...didn't get any extra space...  :P

I think you have to get at least one file uploaded. I don't have extra space yet for you either. :)

and thanks.
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khawes wrote:

jimswinder wrote:
khawes wrote:
Full disclosure: if you use http://db.tt/mli9Ukq to signup for dropbox we both get an extra 250 MB of space.

I used your link to sign up...didn't get any extra space... :D

I think you have to get at least one file uploaded. I don't have extra space yet for you either. :)

and thanks.

Yes you do. I also used the link and did get the extra space.
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With dropbox you have to install the software to get the extra space. You should not have to upload anything, just install the software, and log in with the software.

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I just signed up for dropbox and got 2Gig of storage, not bad for free

Update:
I got an email from DropBox, I just got my bonus 250Meg

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Steven wrote:

paulanator wrote:
Windows XP is something like

C:Documents and SettingsPaulMy DocumentsLight-O-Rama

and your Windows 7 will be like

C:UsersPaulDocumentsLight-O-Rama

I objected at first, but then I saw the wisdom of setting the LOR directory to

C:Light-O-Rama

I put it in the same place on all my computers, so now I can copy sequences, shows, schedules, etc. just by putting the files on a USB drive and copying them.


Mine go into D:LOR on all my machines.

That way I can reimage and not have to load the data back.
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