Profile Request May 2011

Regarding Channel 1:

What are the values 0-63?
I take it 64-127 is fade from low to high(higher numbers are brigher?)
128-191: Are there step values here for the various chases?
192-255: Is this similar to 64-127 where higher values mean brighter?

I honestly don't know Chris. I have never gotten the lights to function with Channel 1 on MY DMX. I created a profile to get them to work with DMX, but only the fade and color channels. I was incapable of setting up channel 1.

correction,, only the dimmer and color chnnels

OK, here's a fun one:

Where does your DMX addressing start for these fixtures? 1 or 0(how LOW can you go, not channels)

1

If you're new to MyDMX and new to the scan library editor, it can be confusing. You can set ranges to specific functions, so it's not impossible, it's just more work and harder to figure out. It also doesn't help that MyDMX will not dynamically update the profile attributes associated with the profile to the fixture. So, it's "tweak, re-load, test, repeat"

It appears that Channel 1, if you set it to 255, and the set channesl 2,3,4 to 255, you SHOULD get ALL white(RGB mixing). You don't need a profile to do this. Assign your fixture to DMX address 1, then just plug things in, launch MyDMX and move faders.

Keep in mind profiles make it easier for us to understand, but also lets the computer do things that would be more difficult for us to do individually(or at least more time consuming). At the same time, a DMX value is a DMX value and you've got 512 faders you can move.

Again: you DO NOT have to have a profile loaded to make MyDMX function. You move a fader, it sends DMX values. Plain and simple.

See if this works before you really proceed.

Hi Jingles, I have been reading the forums for a few days now and am so grateful there are people who still like to help others so thanks.

We recently purchased 10 Visage Block 6 LED Battons from Batmink in the uk.

I have looked everywhere for a profile for myDMX and had no luck in writing my own so could really use your HELP! Smiler

If you cant find the DMX traits for this fixture online, I can post them in a message to you.

We would like to us them in 20 dmx channel mode.

Any help would be great,

Thanks Jingles

Chris, I have over a dozen DMX type fixtures on my set up. The Omnisistem fixture I am using needs a profile so that I can include it in the over 60 scenes I am currently using. In order for me to take advantage of Channel 1, I need a correct profile

Actually, NO YOU DON'T need a profile to make a fixture function. All you need to do is set the values.

The NEED for a profile has been discussed at great length, only proving IN THE END that profiles are NOT needed. They help US as humans relate to the fixture better. They also help the computer be able to do some stuff for us, such as linking channels, grouping and FX stuff.

MyDMX works on a "snapshot" basis. Whatever you use for values are stored with the scene and/or step within a scene, regardless if you have a profile associated with those DMX channels or not.

I had to incorporate this one guy's pair of movers into a show, and lacking the correct profile, I said "to hell with it" and just kept the manual open to the DMX traits page. Adjusted scenes and everything with no problems.

Right now, I'm waiting to hear your results of a test of channels 1,2,3,4 being set to 255 and channel 5 set to 0. This should result in WHITE.

Take out channels 2 and 3 and you get blue, leaving channels 1 and 4 full on.
1 and 2 full on should be red
1 and 3 full on should be green.

See if that works.

Do you have the capability of scanning the manual page(s) that show DMX traits? I just get the feeling something is missing. Right now, the main thing I see missing is a manual being available online. So, short of someone sending me one to test with, it's best to wait for a maunal page to show complete DMX traits. Seeing as how you seem to have 16 of these units, yeah, it might be nice to have a manual.

Hey,

if it helps in the debate, a manual is available here :

http://www.omnisistem.com/pdf/LD-Par56-Pro-(5ch).pdf

By far one of the worst manuals ever.

If I get time tomorrow, I might burp out a profile. It's been a while because I've been using Compu Show and it does things differently.

But again, profiles aren't needed to see if somehting is working. DMX channel information is DMX channel information.

Here you go.
http://db.tt/0kx2VZH

Jingles--thank you for the reply and profile.
Chris, I have no clue what you are talking about. All I know is that the MY DMX program requires a fixture profile to create the steps of the scene.
I have been using MY DMX for three years now.
I have a 260 some oddd channel ligt show. The last MY DMX update changed the profile creating routine. I have no clue how to make the new profile creator function. So now, I simply ask Jim (Jingles) for a profile when it is not in the scan library. I now have a profile from Jim, and I'm off to the races. Peace!

Thanks again as always Jingles!

Hi James and Chris

Thanks for having me on this site, its been a big help for a relatively new user.

Ive been looking everywhere for a myDMX profile for some LED fixtures we recently purchased. (A common problem I know)

I would be extremely grateful if you could help me by writing a profile for mydmx. I have uploaded the Fixture DMX traits here -

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-...s/852/imag0444c.jpg/

Thanks Guys,

Chris

Good morning I just purchased the Chauvet Fallout and need a profile please of course at your leisure no real rush...thanks in advance...DjMixxhttp://www.chauvetlighting.com/products/manuals/Fallout_Rev01c_UM.pdf

Here is the fallout profile.
http://db.tt/gdLJYu7
All other profile request I will make today. Or do my BEST to make today. I apologize for any delay.

Chris Cramp. your link is blank. Let me know.
Sincerely,

http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/144/imag0444c.jpg

thanks James, try this one

OK, that chart is VERY confusing. Is this just a simple LED par can?

Yeah, I know tell me about it!

They are an LED baton fixture that has 6 individually controlled led blocks. I have a link to the product that will give you a better idea.

http://www.batmink.co.uk/led_washlights.php

They are the Visage Led Block 6

I have been struggling to make any sense of how the chart relates to the assignment of the fixture traits in myDMX.. So any help offered would be great, thanks

Chris

hmmm ok. if anything i can just give you faders for channels i am not aware of their exact purpose. lol well in my dmx you always have a fader. so either way. You'll have this in less than 2 hours.
Sincerely,

Awesome, Thanks Jingles

Let me know how this works.
http://db.tt/vurrcpi
I really MUSt make a PDf manual or video on how to use the library creator. It's on my EVEr growing list of things to do lol
Sincerely,

Hi James, thanks for your time. It looks as though it is what I am after, although I wont be able to test until I'm at the lock up tomorrow.

My own attempt turned out to be pretty similar to yours, but I reckon you might be on to something if you made a PDF, or short movie explaining the process.

Thanks for your time

Chris

thank u so much Jingles,do u also do custom light shows if u had the profiles

I used to do that but it is really hard to program in the 3D when you don't have the actual fixtures. And I just don't have the time anymore like I used too. Doing support and profiles for about 6 different lighting software's is more than a 8 hour 5 day a week job now.
Sincerely,

quote:

Originally posted by Jingles:
I used to do that but it is really hard to program in the 3D when you don't have the actual fixtures. And I just don't have the time anymore like I used too. Doing support and profiles for about 6 different lighting software's is more than a 8 hour 5 day a week job now.
Sincerely,

Thanks for the quick response

Looking for a profile for the following fixture:

Make: K9 Lights (http://k9lights.com/K9_PUP.html)
Model: K9 PUP (LED Par46 RGB 18x3W)

The website doesn't have the DMX settings, but i can email you a .pdf of it. Let me know how to get it to you.

Thanks.

Jamesk at americandj dot com
Thanks. Send both links to my email.

Thanks James. Info has been sent to your email. Thanks so much for all your help.

Yup I got it and you should have the profile attached in an email.

Hi James,

I used the profile you kindly wrote for me over the weekend, but had quite a few issues with it.

I tried the led battens in all the modes and had varying degrees of success

In mode 5 the 6 sections of LED were split in half, with only red and Blue on seperate faders, flash speed on another, dimmer and an fx (color flow etc) channel. (which in mode 5 didnt control anything)

All of the Modes within the fixture reacted the same with the only diference being that the Fx channel became a dimmer for different combinations of the blocks. These also came up in different colours and could not be controlled.

I resorted back to a show file I created a while ago and went with that but so far I'm struggling to get the full potential of these lights. I'm very impressed with them so far though!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks James

Chris

Well the profile i made was for one mode only as that is the dmx chart i saw that you sent me a link too. So as far as different modes, i had no idea. I'm glad your enjoying a non adj product haha.
to be honest a profile CANNOT be wrong or give you grief with your lights. all it is, as stated by Chris earlier in the 1st page of this thread is a "user friendly" way to use your channels. I made the profile based off the chart you gave me a picture of. This is what happens when consumers buy off brand products. they are not well supported.For all you know that manual could have been for a different fixture and not apply to yours at all. This isn't a sales pitch it's a reality. Let me know how I can help you and i will do my best. For now if I were you I would play around with channel one and see what some of the other functions do. There is nothing like controlling a light to that of which you do not know what it does or is supposed to do. lol
Sincerely,

Thanks for your reply James,

Yeah I totally understand where you are coming from! I've watched the Youtube Vids and read a quite a bit, including chris's info. I'd actually made a profile that was very similar to the one you posted for me. And that didnt work either.

The Only thing left to do is make my own chart and start again thanks for all of your efforts james.

your very welcome. If you need help let me know.

Hi Jingles,

I see last month you posted a profile for a PULSE LED Par 56 PARCAN. Please can you post a link to it please as I now require it as well

Many thanks,

DJH

I need the profile for a X-Laser X250G Dual Blaze laser. The PDF from X-Laser is http://x-laser.com/manuals/XSeriesManual07-09.pdf but it seems to be a generic manual.

Thanks for your help.

Give this one a shot.
http://db.tt/NJnj6EQ
Sincerely,

It's a dual 50 MW green laser. The description on X-Laser says it a 10 channel DMX, but everywhere else I read has it as 7 channel. I loaded the profile you sent and it seems like it would work if both did the same thing but not independently. Your thoughts?

The product page says 7 channels:
http://www.x-laser.com/display...0G&X-Laser=v06X22304
But if you think it is 10 channel, I would say contact X laser and let me know or have them email me a correct manual. Dan at X laser should have my email address already as I have spoken with him in the past.
Sincerely,

I spoke with John at X-Laser and he pointed me to http://www.x-laser.com/manuals/XSeriesManual07-09.pdf

He said all the X series uses the same DMX traits. So I guess you can't control the two lasers independently.

Ok. So the profile I sent you is good?

I'll let you know Tuesday. Any word on when the RGB and blue green lasers are available?

Thanks for the profile!

Hi James,

Not sure if you saw my last message, but I need the profile for the PULSE LED Par 56 PARCAN that you created last month for another user. Please can you post a link to it as the gig is this weekend and I have to control 6 of them and the customer is being very particular about colours and brightness - not that she's OCD or anything !!

Many thanks,

DJH

Hey Howie, sorry. Link me to the post please and I can find the file again and send to you. Thanks.

Thx James,

Thought I was going crazy - couldn't find it, then I remembered it was in the Q&A forum :-

http://forums.americandj.com/e...=163102685#163102685

Many thanks in advance

Howard

Here you go.
http://db.tt/JRHClQ9
Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,

Excellent ! - Thanks James

DJH

I'm new to the forum and MYDMX, and I have two fixture profile requests that I can't find anywhere (or even fixtures close enough to being 'similar'). I hope this is the correct way to request them. If so, THANK YOU in advance for your help!

First fixture is a generic 11 channel moving head spot (30W LED)

Channel 1 - 7 color wheel
0 - 16 White
17 - 33 Red
34 - 50 Yellow
51 - 67 Light Blue
68 - 84 Green
85 - 101 Orange
102 - 107 UV
108 - 125 Blue
126 - 192 Speed adjust rotate right thru colors
193 - 255 Speed adjust rotate left thru colors
Channel 2 - 6 GOBO Wheel
0 - 20 Open
21 - 41 Squiggly Circle
42 - 62 Sun
63 - 83 Whacky Circle
84 - 104 Broken Lines
105 - 119 Star
120 - 127 Crazy Circle
128 - 192 GOBO Wheel Rotates Right Thru GOBO's
193 - 255 GOBO Wheel Rotates Left Thru GOBO's
Channel 3 - GOBO Rotation
Channel 4 - Open + Shutter
Channel 5 - Pan
Channel 6 - Tilt
Channel 7 - Speed for Pan Tilt
Channel 8 - Macro (Haven't figured this out - seems to do nothing)
Channel 9 - Pan 16 Bit (No idea what this means)
Channel 10 - Tilt 16 Bit (Still no clue)
Channel 11 Reset (???)

The values I provided were from just running the light with my controller and writing them down.

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Second profile Request: Stage Ape Barrier (LED Bar) - http://stageape.com/pages/barrier.html

Instructions for DMX MODE:

To run the LED bar in DMX mode set dip switches #1 and #10 to the on position.
Slider #1 controls the functions.
0-40 = On
41-80 = Strobe
81-120 = Color change
121-160 = Gradual color change
161-200 = Color shuffle
201-255 = Sound control

Slider #2 controls the speed of all the functions 0-255 slow to fast.

Slider #3 controls the red LED's when all other sliders are at the 0 (zero/down) position.
Slider #3 has different function while slider #1 is in different modes.


When slider #1 is in strobe mode, slider #3 has these functions:
0-34 makes the LED bar strobe red
34-70 makes the LED bar strobe green
71-105 makes the LED bar strobe blue
106-140 makes the LED bar strobe yellow
141-175 makes the LED bar strobe magenta
176-209 makes the LED bar strobe cyan
210-239 makes the LED bar strobe white (all LED's on)
240-255 makes the LED bar scroll though all colors in strobe mode

When slider #1 is in Shuffle mode, Slider #3 has these functions:
Slider #3- shuffle mode #1 shuffles bank of color down the bar one way and then repeats at set color.
0-20 makes the LED bar shuffle in red
21-40 makes the LED bar shuffle in green
41-60 makes the LED bar shuffle in blue
61-80 makes the LED bar shuffle in yellow
81-100 makes the LED bar shuffle in magenta
101-120 makes the LED bar shuffle in cyan
121-140 makes the LED bar shuffle in white (all LED's on)
141-180 alternates colors in mode #1 shuffle.
181-220 mode #2 shuffle. A bank of color shuffles down the bar and stays at the end, then when the bar is full proceeds out.
221-255 mode #3 shuffle. One color shuffles down the bar filling the bar with color and then starts again with another color.

When slider #1 is in Sound Active mode, slider #3 has these functions:
0-50 all LED's react to sound.
51-100 the color change function comes on to the beat of the music.
101-150 the gradual change function comes on to the beat of the music.
151-200 the shuffle mode comes on to the beat of the music.
201-255 the LED's come on and change color to the beat of the music.

Slider #4 controls the green LED's when all other sliders are at the 0 (zero/down) position.

Slider #5 controls the blue LED's when all other sliders are at the 0 (zero/down) position

Here is the barrier: http://db.tt/YwnSJZG
for the LED mover can you not find a PDF link? Or scan a copy of the DMX traits?

Thanks so much, James.

For the moving head, it's a generic that I picked up after a local company had finished 'sampling' it. The only documentation they gave me is from the manufacturer in China, and it simply lists the channels and titles of them (no DMX values). I just wrote down the color and gobo wheele values as I went through them on my controller.

The only additional information I can offer, is that channel 3 starts from no rotation (0), and then gobo rotates fast to slow clockwise. Then half way through the channel, counter clockwise slow to fast.

And channel 7 starts fast (0) to slow (255) for the speed of pan and tilt.

I have no idea what channel 8 even does. I've not been able to get it to do anything, no matter which additional faders are engaged. And the 16 bit stuff means nothing to me, nor does reset...although I assume that maybe just brings the head around back to it's starting point?

Bump.

Jingles, do you have any ideas for a profile on this 11 channel moving head? I can try and find the actual manufacturer, and see if I can get better documentation...though I'm not really sure where to start at this point.

sorry about that. I'll do my best to make it by the end of the day today.

No problem, I appreciate all the help. Thanks so much!

Here you go.
http://db.tt/at26rFc
Also 16 bit pan and tilt means the motors will move very finely between two steps in the motors. It's a way to have smooth movement and more accurate positions.
Sincerely,

Thank you very much, James!

I need a profile for the MBT LEDPAR64PRO

http://www.mbtlighting.com/pro...ails.cfm?LEDPAR64PRO

The PDF file for the manual is on the page.

My email is bear41772@yahoo.com

Thanks (as always) for all your help!
Chuck

Hello Chuck. Here you go. Just made this for you just now. simple profile. Let me know if you find any issues with it.
http://db.tt/RjyBGYW
Sincerely,