DDF for Party Spot7 10Ch

Hello and welcome!

The problems, why your DDF will not be able to add to a project in DMXControl 3 is:

• You choose the wrong function to define the strobe function. Here you have to use strobe instead of shutter
• In the gobowheel section, you have to define one step (usually the first), where is no gobo selected. This step is defined as type="open" white the range of DMX values.

Additionally, there are some points you should improve that the control of your device will be much easier

• Maybe you should check by using the channel overview in DMXC3, at which DMX value the "no strobe" section ends and from which DMX value the "strobe" sections starts - so far you did not do that already. Otherwise, your device will strobe continuously due to the wrong definition.
• Instead just using "Color 1", "Color 2" and so on as caption for the colors. you should write here the real name of the color.
• The color "White" is in the thinking of DMXC3 more "Open" - or no color.
• The DMX value range for "Color Auto" can maybe defined as (continuous) wheelrotation, where you get also a slider to control the speed.
• The Goboshake function is a subfunction of the gobowheel, where you will get also a slider to control the frequency.
• The DMX value range for "Goo Auto" can maybe defined as (continuous) wheelrotation, where you get also a slider to control the speed.
• The definition of the reset for the device in the rawstep function should be deleted due to the fact, you have the definition afterwards in the procedures section.

All points I have mentioned a explained in detail in our documentation for the DDFs for DMXC3 in our Wiki with a lot of examples. Here you can find also there tutorials to write a DDF manually.

I hope, you will be able to solve it by yourself. If not, don't hesitate to ask.

Stefan

Hello Pavel,

I updated your DDF completely, because you create now some new mistakes. When writing a DDF for DMXControl 3, only that, was is documented in our documentation is allowed to use (of course whit the fitting values for the related devices). Anything else will now work correctly.

Quote from Netus

Only I can't remove the strobe after turning on the light.

That's the point I mentioned with

Quote from LightningBrothers

Maybe you should check by using the channel overview in DMXC3, at which DMX value the "no strobe" section ends and from which DMX value the "strobe" sections starts.

Here the manual of your device is not complete. So open the channel overview in DMXControl 3 and control the DMX channel for the strobe function manually by clicking on the related channel and use then the slider on the left side of the window. When you going through the whole range of this DMX channel, there will be a section, where the strobe function is turned off. And if you will increase the DMX value just by 1, the strobe function will be activated. These DMX values you have to enter at the related definition in your DDF.

Stefan

This is because the open "step" has a range of 0 - 15. As far as I know, DMXC always sets the default to the middle of the step.

<strobe dmxchannel="6">
<step type="open" mindmx="0" maxdmx="15"/>

In the manual, Strobe only says linear from 0 - 255, there is no "open step"

Quote from KaHe10

DMXC always sets the default to the middle of the step.

That's true. So

Quote from Netus

when I set it to 0, the strobe turns off

the related code has to look as the following:

    <strobe dmxchannel="6">
      <step type="open" mindmx="0" maxdmx="0"/>
      <range type="linear" mindmx="1" maxdmx="255" minval="1" maxval="30"/>
    </strobe>

Then your DDF will work.

You must update the device in your project, before the effect will be affect - or just remove them and add them again. If a device is added and the project was saved once, the current version of the DDF will loaded from the project file and not from the file system.