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Q Light Controller Plus (QLC+) is a free and cross-platform software to control DMX or analog lighting systems like moving heads, dimmers, scanners etc. This project is a fork of the great QLC project written by Heikki Junnila that aims to continue the QLC development and to introduce new features.
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uDMX communication issues with Laserworld ES-100G #562

Closed croxxx closed 9 years ago

croxxx commented 9 years ago

When using my USB-DMX interface to control the laser no stable output can be achieved. Laser "resets" rapidly and only displays correct image sometimes. I had this problem on Windows before and found the solution here: http://www.illutzminator.de/udmxfirmware.html?&L=1

The cause for this behaviour seems to be a bug in some DMX devices not behaving correctly if there is no pause between 2 frames. I tried changing the refresh rate but had no success.

Is it possible to include options for configuration of uDMX parameters similar as shown here?

mcallegari commented 9 years ago

1- why didn't you post this in the QLC+ forums ? 2- is your uDMX device actually recognized and "working" with QLC+ on Windows ? According to the supported hardware chart, it shouldn't be even supported on Windows. 3- QLC+ doesn't implement the DMX timings on a uDMX interface. (it does only on Enttec Open devices) so there is no control of frame timings. Instead, from what I read on the links you provided, the uDMX driver does it, so I guess you need to follow their instructions and change the Break/Mark/GAB using the uDMX Windows tools. Have you tried that ?

croxxx commented 9 years ago

You are probably right, I should have posted this elsehere - sorry for that.

You are right what concerns the use of QLC on Windows. uDMX is not recognized there. Also, when further researching the topic I found out that the timing control is only present in a special variant of uDMX firmware. My issue occured on Linux but I guess I will have to work around this some other way.

Thank you for the fast reply. I will close the issue as this is not the proper place for it.