Guest guest Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Ok, so this may seem rather strange, but how can I make a sequence which I can download to my controller that will keep all channels in a constant lights on stage? I haven't finished programming my sequences yet, and I want my lights to at least stay on until I get a sequence running.Thanks!-Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Just make a sequence, import your channel configuration from your musical sequence, and turn on all the channels in the new sequence. Make a show containing that sequence, and schedule that show to run when you want the lights on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 I found it best to put this constant-on sequence in the 'background' section in the show editor. When I had a sequence like this under the 'animation' section, all the ligts would blink momentarily when it reached the end of the sequence and then restarted. I thought I read somewhere this was fixed in the lates version, but it didn't make a difference for me.Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 Good point! Version 1.6.1 does fix the problem if anyone cares to grab it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 I wanted to do the same thing until I got a computer in my garage. My plan was to put my controllers on a timer, and when powered up all the channels would be on. I created a 15 sec sequence with all channels on. When I downloaded it to my controller as "standalone" sequence in the hardware utility it locked up my controller. IIRC, the transferred sequence was only 5 bytes.I emailed LOR, and got a reply from Dan that there is a bug in the hardware utility. The workaround is to add an extra channel to the sequence. For example, if your unit is set to #01 and you have 16 channels. Add a 17th channel, and set it to a different unit #, for instance #09. (non-existing # on your network). At the end of the 15 second sequence, on the 17th channel put an 'on' command for a 1/10 of a second or so. It worked for me. IIRC, the sequence was now 24 bytes.Hope this makes sense. Dan said they will fix it in the next HU release.AFTER I got a computer in the garage, I ran into that blink problem. My solution? Looped the 15 seconds 30000 times! I'll have to try that background tip.BTW, to reset my controller from it's locked condition, unplug unit, set ID to #00, power up, unplug, reset ID #. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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