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1 hour ago, jackstone said:

Chasing with Comma Separated Random channel is not (yet) possible but you can achieve your goal using a simple trick:

For Color chasing, use the Advanced Chase effect with the RGB channel configured, enter 4 as the channel per fixture to have the white channel skipped.

For White chasing, use the Basic Chase Effect and set the first white channel with a step of 4, it should work.

 

 

Makes sense, but does that mean I need to change the way I addressed my bulbs?  do they need to be: bulb 1 (1,2,3,4), bulb2 (5,6,7,8), bulb3 (9,10,11,12), bulb4 (13,14,15,16), etc...

And do you guys plan on adding random channel chasing to the driver?

@jackstone is it possible to create a chase effect with comma separated channel numbers?  I see how to do it with starting channel and ending channel. Here is basically what I am trying to do:  I have 12 RGBW bulbs in a row and I want to chase a color or white down the row.  I used 3 channel decoders (px24500), one for each bulb for RGB and then I put all the whites for the first 3 bulbs on a separate RGB controller.  Do I need to rewire my bulbs so they are all in a channel series?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

They are addressed as follows:

bulb 1 - (1,2,3,10)

bulb2 - (4,5,6,11)

bulb3 - (7,8,9,12)

bulb4 - (13,14,15,22)

bulb5 - (16,17,18,23)

bulb6 - (19,20,21,24)

etc...

6 hours ago, jackstone said:

Cabling diagram for HouseLogix RGBW Ceiling Lights (DMX compatible):

 

Perfect!  Thank you.  I just ordered 11 more.  I will post a video of what I am up to in a few weeks.  

14 hours ago, jackstone said:

For those interested, we've put some new low-voltage RGBW Ceiling Lights on the Houselogix marketplace, we found many people are looking for this kind of fixture but they are pretty hard to find. Right now there is two models for sell but we'll add more on request.

 

https://www.houselogix.com/shop/24w-rgbw-ceiling-downlight-dmx-compatible

https://www.houselogix.com/shop/40w-rgbw-ceiling-downlight-dmx-compatible

 

 

Is this just a bulb or is the housing included?  Also, do you have to dimensions?

32 minutes ago, jackstone said:

Now added with the driver package: DMX Motorization Relay driver. This driver enable the use of cheap DMX Relay device to integrate flawlessly with all the Control4 generic relay device like motorized screen or garage door. It also feature an unique option to allow the use of two DMX Relay channels to control one device, thus allow to mimic any button press on any device with push buttons control even if there is no "real" contact control on the device, for example, many motorized reclining couch can be controlled this way.

What version does that put the driver at?

25 minutes ago, jackstone said:

Now added with the driver package: DMX Motorization Relay driver. This driver enable the use of cheap DMX Relay device to integrate flawlessly with all the Control4 generic relay device like motorized screen or garage door. It also feature an unique option to allow the use of two DMX Relay channels to control one device, thus allow to mimic any button press on any device with push buttons control even if there is no "real" contact control on the device, for example, many motorized reclining couch can be controlled this way.

That is so cool!!!!  Awesome job!

10 hours ago, Christopher Spitler said:

that's awesome! when's the c4forums party at your place?

Thanks!!!  Right!

Pic and video

wall.mp4

Absolutely.  Its kind of a long confusing story, but I will try to explain.  I have a total of 8 RGBW LED strips mounted to a huge corrugated metal wall (72 feet long, 1 row at the top, one row at the bottom).  The wires run on the back side of the wall while the LEDs are on the front.  I used 16/4 speaker wire of the RGBW grounds and 16/2 (only one conductor) for the 12V to each strip, home run.  I didn't tie the two sets of wire sheaths together, they just kind of hung separately behind the wall at a space of maybe 5 or 6 feet from each other.  Well as we know, the dimming occurs from PWM, which tuns on and off really fast, creating a square wave type frequency.  We also know that when we run electricity down a pair of wires, it creates a magnetic field.  Well believe it or not the fact that I have the 12volts wire so far away from the RGBW grounds caused a very large magnetic field and normally this wouldn't be a big deal.  However, the RGBW dimming creates a square wave frequency and because the magnetic field was so large (16/4 and 16/2 speaker wires being so far from each other) they metal wall was actually picking up the magnetic frequency and making audible!  I zip tied the two speaker wires (16/4 and 16/2) the entire lengths together and moved the 12volts to the 16/4 and the W ground to the 16/2 and that solved the problem. Next time I will get the 18/6 wire.

My strips are 5 wire, RGBW and 12v.  I figured out the problem, all quiet now and working correctly. 

not sure what you mean by dedicated power wires, but if I run 4 stings, no buzzing, any more than that, buzzing.

Got it all working, the issue was, I like songs with bass and full volume with full bass was too much, turned down the volume and all is good!  However, the RGB driver makes a high pitch noise when dimming.  @jackstone any ideas?  

Ok, I finally got it working.  Was a bad local driver.

Now I am having trouble with the sound to light feature.  I have the Matrix output 8 tied into contact 3 on the HC800 and I crank the volume and bass but no effects.  Any ideas?

What should the serial setting be?

is there a secrete to getting the engineering solutions to work on an itach???  Tried straight through, xover, no connect.. ??? I am connected to 2, 3, 5...nothing!

Where is your WIFI antenna?  I am running the BP501 with WIFI and I installed it myself when I reworked all the plumbing and jets.  When I installed the WIFI antenna, I was sure to put it a decent distance from the BP501. I have never had it disconnect and I have used both APPs on my iPhone without issue.

I just loaded the bullfrog app and I will test it against the balboa app.  The balboa app for me has been rock solid, been up and running for 120 days without disconnect.

3 hours ago, ericscales said:

Good timing.  I actually got an itch to work on it some today.  I'll see if I can get it in limited functionality mode that's suitable for testing today.

Awesome!  I would definitely be interested in testing and helping to debug.  My balboa controller has been rock solid on the network/iPhone APP.   

Hey Eric, would you be willing to share the IP Protocol for the balboa wifi?

I am looking forward to your driver! I just rebuilt my entire hot tub and I am installing the Balboa BP501 with WIFI tomorrow. I would love to test it for you.