Yorkville LP-LED2x

Hello again,

I hope to use a couple of small 2 head lighting bars on a small show next week. There isn't a DDF in the library and I won't have the fixtures in hand till close to the show so I wanted to check my work with the hive even though it's very simple. The fixture will have 2 heads but I want to be able to control them separately as easily as possible and as I don't have a lot of time it seemed simplest to just create a DDF as if it were individual fixtures and then use group controls within DMX control as necessary. The channel assignment for the mode I want to use is as follows (full manual attached):

CH 1 – Red for Pod 1

CH 2 – Green for Pod 1

CH 3 – Blue for Pod 1

CH 4 – White for Pod 1

CH 5 – Intensity for Pod 1

CH 6 – Strobe Speed for Pod 1

CH 7 – Strobe Intensity/Brightness for Pod 1

CH 8 – Sync (Master)

It's not a very detailed DMX list to be honest. I don't know how to input the item in the channel 7 slot either. The syntax to give a fixture 2 intensity controls is definitely not something I've had to do before. All help appreciated. My .txt file attached and repeated here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<device type="DMXDevice" dmxaddresscount="8" dmxcversion="3.1.0" ddfversion="1.0">
  <information>
    <model>LP-LED2X</model>
    <vendor>Yorkville</vendor>
    <author>Metric</author>
    <mode>8 channel mode</mode>
  </information>
  <functions>
    <rgb>
      <red dmxchannel="0"/>
      <green dmxchannel="1"/>
      <blue dmxchannel="2"/>
      <white dmxchannel="3"/>
    </rgb>
  </functions>
  <dimmer dmxchannel="4"/>
  <strobe dmxchannel="5">
    <range type="linear" mindmx="0" maxdmx="225" minval="0" maxval="10"/>
  </strobe>
</device>

Many thanks once again.

Metric.

OK so the file doesn't work right now. Here's what I have at the moment;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<device type="DMXDevice" dmxaddresscount="8" dmxcversion="3.1.0" ddfversion="1.0">
  <information>
    <model>LP-LED2X</model>
    <vendor>Yorkville</vendor>
    <author>Metric</author>
    <mode>8 channel mode</mode>
  </information>
  <functions>
    <rgb>
      <red dmxchannel="0"/>
      <green dmxchannel="1"/>
      <blue dmxchannel="2"/>
      <white dmxchannel="3"/>
    </rgb>
    <dimmer dmxchannel="4"/>
    <strobe dmxchannel="5">
      <range type="linear" mindmx="0" maxdmx="225" minval="0" maxval="10"/>
    </strobe>
  </functions>
</device>

Any help appreciated.

OK after a bit of investigating, the problem was actually that the DMX interface wasn't putting out. The unit responds now after deleting and discovering again the interface into DMX control.

The next stumbling block seems to be that the strobe function seems to be bootstrapped to a low rate. It might be just the max rate for the fixture as I tried upping the maxval to 50 but it doesn't do anything to increase the strobe rate.

Agreed, I'm not 100% clear what 7 and 8 in particular want to do. 6 I think is strobe speed but why the strobe would need a separate dimmer control for intensity I'm not sure. Channel 8 must be related to syncing the pods together but why or how that is done is not clear.

Quote from LightningBrothers

After I figure out, that you hid the manual of your text, I could finally check if your DDF looks well.

So if you wouldn't give the hint, that your interface wasn't work right, I would recommend to try a "simplier" mode like the 20 channel mode, Here the functions a completely clear so far. In the 32 channel mode, I can't imagine currently, what the channels 6 to 8 of each pod will do finally.

Yes, absolutely the 20 channel mode would be more straightforward. I thought I wanted the strobe function but the deadline for getting the show up and running made it necessary to go another route for that function. The bar works well now, but it's almost in spite of the manual rather than thanks to it. If one were tight for channels, it's not very useful to have modes that group colour to a single channel and then not give the DMX range allocated to each colour in the mode description.