Longest Continuous Run Test

[DavidHenry]

I'm wondering if I have a record here. What's the longest time anyone has had Vixen running and looping a sequence for?

[dirknerkle]

I've had it running continuously for more than 36 hours when I was testing the wireless Renard adapter I was designing... I didn't write down the exact time, but I know it was at least that...

[kostyun]

I had one running on the server for about 2 weeks...

[DavidHenry]

So far my record is safe. Very safe :)

[bmcgeeny]

I'm wondering if I have a record here. What's the longest time anyone has had Vixen running and looping a sequence for?

Are we talking about just running it on the computer or running lights on it?

[dirknerkle]

IMO, as long as it runs from 5pm to 10:30 pm every night and does so for a couple months of the year, that's good enough for me. 8-)

[wjohn]

maybe we need to ask KC to include a Run Timer in the pgm, and include it in a Sh Tech

I have seen routers running for 700 plus days without a reboot.

[RPM]

I'm wondering if I have a record here. What's the longest time anyone has had Vixen running and looping a sequence for?

When I was doing some initial testing on my DMX firmware I ran a test sequence for at least two months straight.

[dirknerkle]

maybe we need to ask KC to include a Run Timer in the pgm, and include it in a Sh Tech

I have seen routers running for 700 plus days without a reboot.

You might be able to use a trigger to fire a batch file as well.

[dnesci]

I'm wondering if I have a record here. What's the longest time anyone has had Vixen running and looping a sequence for?

OK I'll bite. Why would you want to loop only one sequence? If you are testing, you should run your progarm and have it start and stop as it will in a show. Looping one sequence wont show the problems with a program, filler songs or memory leaks.

Not criticizing, just asking what your intent was. Most of us run our shows continuously for months. My show last year and 24 hour radio station (run by Vixen) when from 11/13/2008 to 1/7/2009 non stop.

Don

[RPM]

OK I'll bite. Why would you want to loop only one sequence? If you are testing, you should run your progarm and have it start and stop as it will in a show. Looping one sequence wont show the problems with a program, filler songs or memory leaks.

Not criticizing, just asking what your intent was. Most of us run our shows continuously for months. My show last year and 24 hour radio station (run by Vixen) when from 11/13/2008 to 1/7/2009 non stop.

Don

In my case I wasn't testing Vixen, I was testing DMX hardware that I designed for reliability under load.

[DavidHenry]

Ok I figured a few more details would help.

My wife has a good number of plaster houses (they are approximately HO scale in size) that she's set up as a Christmas village for years. They always had the huge pike of cords and C7 (or C9, can't remember which) bulbs.

For added realism, I'd wanted to control them for years, and started with either LEDs, or single mini lights run off low voltage DC. I'd never gotten around to controlling them.

Last fall I was welding and there was a "minor incident" with a stay splatter that rolled a ways in the garage, and rested on the Styrofoam covered board that had previously held the village. Fortunately I was able to get the fire out, but the board was a total loss. I ended up finding a new home for the village, and hooked it up running 12VAC with a pair of Ren24 boards. It uses 14V bulbs that I found cheaply.

To make the winter village look more realistic, I had a sequence in Vixen running it. Not sure when I started, but it died a couple days after Christmas. After either 4 or 5 days, the electric company finally restored power about 5 PM new years eve. As we were heading out, it didn't get turned back on until sometime on the 2nd of January.

I forgot how long the sequence is, but it's been running in Vixen and looping since then. The wife likes to see the village in action when she walks by, so it's never been turned off.

I forget what version I'm running, but it's 2.something or other.