Purchasing Sequences

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olingerjccj

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I am using vixen 2.1 about 120 channels this year. I really got the itch late this year. I got like 8 songs to sequence. My question to save time is there anyone out there that will program your sequences for a cost of course. Just looking at all my options.
 
My props are 4 6 channel arches, 3 singing trees still gotta purchase them I think they are 8 channels, mega tree 8 channel x3 colors, mini trees 3 channels × 4, icicles 8 channels, 7 candy canes and some 1 and 2s here and there.just started my layout last night so nothing is absolute currently. All incans no pixels
 
Probably not in Vixen 2.1. Unless you really need certain songs, I would try to start with some shared sequences. Probably have to add the singing trees yourself as not many 2.1 sequences had faces.
 
MikeKrebs said:
Probably not in Vixen 2.1. Unless you really need certain songs, I would try to start with some shared sequences. Probably have to add the singing trees yourself as not many 2.1 sequences had faces.
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Well my show computer is not working so I will have to start from scratch. Gonna look tonight at my laptop specs to see what newer version of vixen to use. The singing faces I can always go back and add them in.
 
I suggest you also get a source control system (I use GIT). I put my git repo on a different drive than my live data. I then update the data for each sequence each time I modify it. Then if I add something I dont like I cant revert to one of the checkpoints. I can also restore at any point. FYI: If the computer died, then you can still get the data off of the frive. Take the drive and put it into the new computer as an additional drive. I have 6 drives in my computer, one of them dedicated to only git repo's.
 
MartinMueller2003 said:
I suggest you also get a source control system (I use GIT). I put my git repo on a different drive than my live data. I then update the data for each sequence each time I modify it. Then if I add something I dont like I cant revert to one of the checkpoints. I can also restore at any point. FYI: If the computer died, then you can still get the data off of the frive. Take the drive and put it into the new computer as an additional drive. I have 6 drives in my computer, one of them dedicated to only git repo's.
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I ordered this to get all the data off my old hdd

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I use those as well for offline drives. They give good access to the data. Not super fast, but when the goal is recovery, any speed is good.
 
MartinMueller2003 said:
I use those as well for offline drives. They give good access to the data. Not super fast, but when the goal is recovery, any speed is good.
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Well I hooked up the drive at 1st I saw all the files somehow the usb came loose now when I go in the drive none of those vixen files are there looks like a clean hdd. Idk kinda frustrating
 
Has anyone came across a good archive of the old .vix files that used to be available on the Land-O-Lights website? That was such a great treasure trove of Vixen 2.1 sequence files! Maybe someone saw the future and archived all that themselves... wouldn't that be great?!
I checked the waybackmachine.org archives a while back and, although the website captures were there, the file links didn't work.

If your HD access attempts fail, I know if you look around there are a good number of web pages that have lots of the old .vix files you can adapt to your needs.
 
MartinMueller2003 said:
Sequencing and controllers are independent. I do my sequences in the spring when there are NO controllers connected.
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I am not going to spend hours sequencing if I cannot get my laptop to communicate with the renard boards, but I agree sequencing should be done earlier in the year just decided late to do this.
 
What's up with your show PC? I own an IT company so I end up with PCs laying around collecting dust.
If you tell me what OS you prefer, I could get one up and running tomorrow and shipped out to you. It's late in the season so I'd hate to see someone struggling to essentially start over without at least a dedicated PC for the show.

I also have sequences going back 15 years that I can probably load onto it so you can pick and choose what you want. My show started with all incans using renard boards in 2010 and has slowly grown to more pixels than anything else. So there's a good mix of incan elements you can choose from in most of them. I still use my renards too. The PC wouldn't be anything special, but would get your up and running and probably last quite a few years for you.

About your drive from your show PC, kinda sounds like the partition table took some damage when the USB came loose. Pretty common issue with those types of adapters. What OS are you on? I may be able to provide you with some non-invasive processes to run on the drive that may be able to recover the partition table to get your data back.
 
We have no idea what the real issue is. We have yet to see the patching screens. No one has seen a test sequence. The OP stated that he cut both ends of the cable, you only need to cut the end that connects to the USB adapter. Even if the patching is wrong, as long as the controller has more than 1 channel defined and is enabled, you should see the RX led light up.

Lights start with seeing the controller Config and a picture of the USB adapter with the wire attached. Then a picture of the other end of the cable and the jumper settings for the termination resistor.
 
Man that is a super sweet offer. I will give you the low down on the stages of this. So my show computer was super basic I only used it for the show. It had windows xp. I was using the DE9 connector from my cpu to cat 5 onto the renard board worked amazing. I would love to get that drive back but here is where I am at I went and purchased a hp laptop and bought the USB adapter. I have been trying for 4 days to get my laptop to communicate with the renard board 0 luck I really was at the point of giving up. Like I said I really liked using the de9 connector seemed to have 0 issues. I cut my cable to make the usb adapter so I would have to remake that but I think it was 2 wires super easy. That is where I am at I am open to all options since I cannot get the laptop to communicate with the Renard. With that said this community is truly amazing I thank you for any help I can get at this point.
 
I can check when I'm at the office tomorrow to see what's there. I know there are quite a few PC's that run Windows 10 natively and would work fine for your show. I run my show directly from DE9 to ethernet from the PC to the first Renard, then it converts it to rs485 to each subsequent controller. I'm still using dumb RGB "super strips" as floods on the house that are powered by a Ren48LSD. Still 88 renard channels on my modern show, lol. I bet I have a PCIE serial card that would work on any of the PCs I have too.

Just out of curiosity, what USB to serial adapter are you trying to use? Did Windows get the drivers installed for it correctly?
 
MartinMueller2003 said:
We have no idea what the real issue is. We have yet to see the patching screens. No one has seen a test sequence. The OP stated that he cut both ends of the cable, you only need to cut the end that connects to the USB adapter. Even if the patching is wrong, as long as the controller has more than 1 channel defined and is enabled, you should see the RX led light up.

Lights start with seeing the controller Config and a picture of the USB adapter with the wire attached. Then a picture of the other end of the cable and the jumper settings for the termination resistor.
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I can definitely take some pictures when I get home of the usb adapter what I did with the wiring. Unless it is something in the laptop I purchased. I checked vixen everything seems right comm and all that. I have 6 renard 24s boards and tried all of them.
 
Did you check the com port settings in device manager on that laptop? It has to match the firmware as far as speed and the settings in Vixen in order to communicate properly. If I remember correctly, the port settings should be as follows.

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Vixen needs to match that too and be set for the correct com port or you won't get anything out of it.
 
ptinhays said:
I can check when I'm at the office tomorrow to see what's there. I know there are quite a few PC's that run Windows 10 natively and would work fine for your show. I run my show directly from DE9 to ethernet from the PC to the first Renard, then it converts it to rs485 to each subsequent controller. I'm still using dumb RGB "super strips" as floods on the house that are powered by a Ren48LSD. Still 88 renard channels on my modern show, lol. I bet I have a PCIE serial card that would work on any of the PCs I have too.

Just out of curiosity, what USB to serial adapter are you trying to use? Did Windows get the drivers installed for it correctly?
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Here is the adapter I am using hope you can see it windows did not ask for a driver but it show on device manager as ports, usb serial port
ptinhays said:
I can check when I'm at the office tomorrow to see what's there. I know there are quite a few PC's that run Windows 10 natively and would work fine for your show. I run my show directly from DE9 to ethernet from the PC to the first Renard, then it converts it to rs485 to each subsequent controller. I'm still using dumb RGB "super strips" as floods on the house that are powered by a Ren48LSD. Still 88 renard channels on my modern show, lol. I bet I have a PCIE serial card that would work on any of the PCs I have too.

Just out of curiosity, what USB to serial adapter are you trying to use? Did Windows get the drivers installed for it correctly?
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