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Johnny 5 and LedWiz
arzoo:
Howard,
I was wondering if you would consider a modification to the way J5 defines the individual LEDs in Lights.ini? As it stands, each RGB led must have all 3 leads wired to the same LEDWiz device. It would be much more flexible if RGBs could span devices - I'll explain why I think this would help. Since there is no way to set multiple LEDWiz devices into a master/slave configuration, only one can act as the control for sequencing. That limits a cp to at most 10 buttons in a sequence - assuming each requires all three RGB values to define the color. But if you're willing to limit the sequencing LEDs to a single color, you can now use up to 32 buttons and still provide multiple color options for each button during game play.
I'll use my cp as an example - I have 16 RGB buttons, 1 LED for the Trackball, and 4 single LED admin buttons (Atari volcano's). The blue lead for the RGBs, and the other single LEDs are all wired to device 1 (21 ports used). The red and green leads for the RGBs are wired to device 2 (32 ports used). With this layout, I can sequence all the LEDs together (RGBs only in blue), and still light the RGBs in other colors for game play.
It may be that not many members have cps with so many LEDs or that they're not interested in an attract mode sequence, but I still think this would be a useful enhancement to J5 - it would certainly help me out. ;D
loadman:
--- Quote ---Since there is no way to set multiple LEDWiz devices into a master/slave configuration, only one can act as the control for sequencing.
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...hmmm Unless I read this wrong.
I don't know about J5 but..
There is no reason why you can't have animation sequences span multiple Led-Wiz.
I am doing that now making the attract mode for the Led-Wiz Plugin.
RandyT's animation file format only accounts for one wiz so that needed to be changed.
As I say I could have missunderstood what you meant
arzoo:
--- Quote from: loadman on January 06, 2007, 04:19:49 pm ---
--- Quote ---Since there is no way to set multiple LEDWiz devices into a master/slave configuration, only one can act as the control for sequencing.
--- End quote ---
...hmmm Unless I read this wrong.
I don't know about J5 but..
There is no reason why you can't have animation sequences span multiple Led-Wiz.
I am doing that now making the attract mode for the Led-Wiz Plugin.
RandyT's animation file format only accounts for one wiz so that needed to be changed.
As I say I could have missunderstood what you meant
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Did Randy modify his animation file format to allow for multiple devices? Back when I bought mine, they could not do that, which is why I've wired my LEDs across the two devices. How do multiple devices stay in sync?
loadman:
--- Quote ---Did Randy modify his animation file format to allow for multiple devices? Back when I bought mine, they could not do that, which is why I've wired my LEDs across the two devices. How do multiple devices stay in sync?
--- End quote ---
No, But he told me what his intension are so I basically followed that
You can address all Ledwiz with a command or just one
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