mike in tulsa Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 I have been able to connect to my controller only a couple of times, everytime I run the Hardware Utility, it states the Comm Port is in use.Anyone have any ideas???Thank you,Mike in Tulsa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 mike in tulsa wrote: I have been able to connect to my controller only a couple of times, everytime I run the Hardware Utility, it states the Comm Port is in use.Anyone have any ideas???Thank you,Mike in TulsaDo you have two LOR programs running the same time?If so, closing one of them will help. Only one program can control the port at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike in tulsa Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 Thank you for responding so quickly. The answer is no however. The control panel is open in the sys tray, but the only LOR program running is the Hardware Utility. The port is 9, and when I try to connect to the controller, I get a pop up that states the following:The Serial Port (Comm9) assinged to LOR is in use. Using the LOR control panel, make sure that shows are disabled while you run the Hardware Utility.When I right click on the control panel icon, it shows that Disable Shows is greyed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Mike, the control panel is using the comm port. U will need to shut down the control panel too.To recap. Control Panel, Hardware Utility, and Seq. editor all use the comm port. None of these three will share with any of the other 2 items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wbottomley Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Max-Paul wrote: Mike, the control panel is using the comm port. U will need to shut down the control panel too.That's not exactly true unless shows are enabled. But, if they are disabled, you can use the HU with the port.One other question... what are the LED's doing (status lights on controllers) when the HU & Sequencer are closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike in tulsa Posted November 27, 2009 Author Share Posted November 27, 2009 All,Thanks for you input. I ran into a problem getting the shows enabled because the port was "in use". However, your guidance led me to re-boot and then I used the control panel to enable and it worked.The leds on the controller have always indicated it was waiting for the pc.Again, thank you for all of the input. It is nice to know that as a "newbie", there are people who actually read the posts and give solid guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max-Paul Posted November 28, 2009 Share Posted November 28, 2009 Mike, so true. So many problems can be cleared up by a good old fashion "reboot". I maintain about 2 dozen computers that run production equipment. Sometimes when all else fails. Nothing like a good reboot to get things going again.Glad you were able to get things going for you.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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