LED-Wiz USB LED and Output Control Device now available. *Blinky lights*

[Circo]

After playing with it some more I don't think it has anything to do with the bloodywiz.exe app.  All that I need is a command to STOP or RESET the led-wiz.  I could ue bloodywiz to send that command and then have powermame take over until I exit the game.  Then I could start bloodywiz again to restart the attractmode in mamewah. 

Even if I could make it stop looping that would fix the problem.

Hope that makes sense.  Any ideas on how to do this?

EDIT: I realized that I was using the first version of bloodywiz.  I started playing with the newest version and I am trying that out, not much luck so far but I am getting tired.  Version 1 was absolutely perfect for what I am trying to do if I could only reset, or stop the repeat function on the LED-WIZ so that powermame can take over.  Thanks in advance for any ideas on how to do this, I would think that there was some sort off command to send to the led-wiz somehow to accomplish this even if it was with the included LED-WIZ software.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

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[Santoro]

That will require a relay per LED, and I imagine that would be too complicated and expensive to be worth it if you have more than a few LEDs. If you really wanted to do it, you could though.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/relay1.htm

Edit - there may be another way with transistors, not sure - others please speak up.  I learned all this stuff for my Ham Radio License a while back but have forgotten a lot of it.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Ultimately, I'd like to find a Flexible RGB LED strip that runs on 5V. Just haven't found one yet. I thought I'd ask about the 12v setup, just in case.




mrC

[KillerArcades]

After playing with it some more I don't think it has anything to do with the bloodywiz.exe app.  All that I need is a command to STOP or RESET the led-wiz.  I could ue bloodywiz to send that command and then have powermame take over until I exit the game.  Then I could start bloodywiz again to restart the attractmode in mamewah.

Hey, Circo, I'm just getting around to trying this all this week, but Mahuti mentioned in one of his posts back in Feb about one of his versions that he had created a "ledsoff" file:

I was also wondering the other day how I could shut of my buttons without shutting off the computer. I made a "ledsoff.cfg" and threw it in MAME's cfg files and I set APP2_executable to run that specific file. In the future I'll just make it a -parameter option so you don't have to add another file.

not sure if that's something that was/is included in the last version he put up or not.... *shrug* but it might be something to experiment with...?

I'm still quite the noob, so forgive me if this is useless info.

I'm looking at doing the same setup you've got right now = multiple emulators through Mamewah, powermame for mame, mahuti's app for the other emulators and for animations while in the frontend.

I've got the LEDs all in my cp and wired, just started playing with the LEDWIZ on saturday night, looks awesome, I'm going to change how I have some of my buttons paired up though, so I'll do that this week, and start playing more with the software come Saturday/Sunday and let you know where I get with the bloodywiz and powermame.

If you figure it out in the meantime, please post or PM me with your solution.

[sWampy]

Could one of these be used to cut on and off the led's on the lcdtopguns whenever a gun game is loaded?

[Circo]

Hey, Circo, I'm just getting around to trying this all this week, but Mahuti mentioned in one of his posts back in Feb about one of his versions that he had created a "ledsoff" file:

From what I am seeing that even with the led off file the LEDWIZ software is still repeating that command to the ledwiz, which overrides powermame.  I am wondering if maybe some kind of wrapper for the ledwiz software that could automatically close the ledwiz software when I go into mame so that powermame could retake control.  As it stands now, if I want light in other emulators using the bloodywiz.exe program, I have to exit mamewah and manually close the LEDWIZ software with the mouse.  So for the meantime I have temporarily given up on lighting the controls for other emulators. Unfortunately I am no programmer, and the free time I do have goes to the EmuMovies project.  I know that the LEDWIZ is a newer item and hopefully someone with more smarts than me will eventually come up with a solution to this.  I know alot of people strictly run mame on their cab so this may not be a priorty for awhile. 

However if anyone with the ability to help with this sort of thing wanted to make a fix for this, I could trade an EmuMovies DVD set 

[mahuti]

I might be able to work this out. Probably pretty simple really. I never thought about shutting down the ledwiz & restarting it, but that would solve a lot of problems. I'll get on it.

[KillerArcades]

Yes! The last piece to my arcade cabinet dream is about to fall into place..... and then it will be time to celebrate!

[Circo]

I might be able to work this out. Probably pretty simple really. I never thought about shutting down the ledwiz & restarting it, but that would solve a lot of problems. I'll get on it.

You are the man!! 

[RandyT]

I just want to note that Mahuti has a different version of the software that may account for certain things not working for others (like turning off the animations.) 

Beta .87 has just been posted for download so be sure to grab it.  Mostly just a couple of fixes, plus the addition of a different file command (currently not documented).

LINK


RandyT

[mr.Curmudgeon]

What's the latest regarding the possibility of hooking (2) or more ledwiz's together? Is there still planned support in the software for multiple modules?




mrC

[KillerArcades]

What's the latest regarding the possibility of hooking (2) or more ledwiz's together? Is there still planned support in the software for multiple modules?

Check out the PowerMame forums. MikeQ has got things setup so that you can do multiple LEDWIZ's using his current version of PowerMame. That's going to be your best bet, from what I've read.

[Circo]

Beta .87 has just been posted for download so be sure to grab it.  Mostly just a couple of fixes, plus the addition of a different file command (currently not documented).



RandyT

Aww now your just teasing me  , is it safe to ask what the undocumented command is 

BTW, thanks for such a cool product!  I'm so close to having it all work perfectly I can almost taste it!

[arzoo]

Is PowerMame the only software solution that can control more than one LEDWiz? My panel has 16 RGB LEDs and if I want full color control, I

[mccoy178]

See:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=53401.0