Sensory Fiend

Hi has anyone come across any problems with this object? Im trying to connect an Enttech open dmx interface the my PC running windows XP. Its running via a usb 1.1 port.

I get the following error when clicking the 'open COM3' message box in the dmxusb help file: 'error: dmxusb: could not set params to control dcb of device'.

I have gone into the device manager in XP to change the com port to COM3 but its still not working.

Hi has anyone come across any problems with this object? Im trying to connect an Enttech open dmx interface the my PC running windows XP. Its running via a usb 1.1 port. 

dmxusb-external-queries

i now get the message 'unable to detect device'.

i haven't been working on a win-pc with the device yet, we problems 

it probably is not the device. try using a shorter and/or high 

quality usb-cable instead of the one shipped with the device!

this solved the problem in my case. if you still have problems try 

if you are using a laptop be sure the device gets enough power. it 

Am 22.09.2006 um 17:31 schrieb Kit Webster:

> i now get the message 'unable to detect device'.

i haven't been working on a win-pc with the device yet, we problems  
using it on  a mac as well.
it probably is not the device. try using a shorter and/or high  
quality usb-cable instead of the one shipped with the device!
this solved the problem in my case. if you still have problems try  
contacting the developer: nullmedium.de
if you are using a laptop be sure the device gets enough power. it  
needs about 300mA in peak.

>
> i now get the message 'unable to detect device'.


> i haven't been working on a win-pc with the device yet, we problems 

Hi Jens, you are using the DMX USB PRO interface, this guy is talking 

about the Open version which is nothing else than a USB to RS485 

> it probably is not the device. try using a shorter and/or high quality 

> usb-cable instead of the one shipped with the device!

> this solved the problem in my case. if you still have problems try 

> contacting the developer: nullmedium.de

He already did and is still writing to the list his encrypted short 

messages in case I don't reply to his emails within 30 minutes.

> hi kit!
>
> i haven't been working on a win-pc with the device yet, we problems  
> using it on  a mac as well.

Hi Jens, you are using the DMX USB PRO interface, this guy is talking 
about the Open version which is nothing else than a USB to RS485 
converter without any processor inside.

> it probably is not the device. try using a shorter and/or high  quality 
> usb-cable instead of the one shipped with the device!
> this solved the problem in my case. if you still have problems try  
> contacting the developer: nullmedium.de

He already did and is still writing to the list his encrypted short 
messages in case I don't reply to his emails within 30 minutes.

Hi...I just wanted to add myself to this list of questions...

Olaf, I just wondered if you had any hope of getting the Enttec OpenDMX widget working on OS X...

I'd e-mailed you a while ago and it sounded like you were still working on it, but I haven't heard since.

I really appreciate your hard work (I'm using the widget under XP successfully now)...but I'd really love (and be willing to pay you like $60 if it worked in the next few weeks) for the ability to use it under OSX. I know I can buy the Pro version and your external for that, but it's a lot of $$ when the cheaper one almost does what I want.

Please let me know if there's any hope, I have a project coming up that I'd love to use a widget for, but it's Mac only so I'm looking for other solutions.

I really appreciate your hard work (I'm using the widget under XP successfully now)...but I'd really love (and be willing to pay you like $60 if it worked in the next few weeks) for the ability to use it under OSX. I know I can buy the Pro version and your external for that, but it's a lot of $$ when the cheaper one almost does what I want.  

Please let me know if there's any hope, I have a project coming up that I'd love to use a widget for, but it's Mac only so I'm looking for other solutions. 

did you eventually get the dmxusb external to work on a mac?

> Hi...I just wanted to add myself to this list of questions...

> Olaf, I just wondered if you had any hope of getting the Enttec OpenDMX widget working on OS X...

> I'd e-mailed you a while ago and it sounded like you were still working on it, but I haven't heard since.

> I really appreciate your hard work (I'm using the widget under XP successfully now)...but I'd really love (and be willing to pay you like $60 if it worked in the next few weeks) for the ability to use it under OSX. I know I can buy the Pro version and your external for that, but it's a lot of $$ when the cheaper one almost does what I want.

I stopped worrying about getting the Open going under OS X becasue I saw 

how it was eating my CPU power. I have a home-made version of it that 

should be the same as the one from Enttec and mine is working under OS 

X, the Enttec is not (although I used their published schematic to build 

mine). Due to all the trouble with the Open and people asking whether 

they could use it to receive DMX (which won't work) I dropped my 

interface into the trashcan and stopped working on the Open's software.

I think it's really a bad idea to rely on the OS to pump out DMX data at 

250kbps as a continous data stream where timing between bytes is used by 

the receiver to identify channel numbers.

> Hi...I just wanted to add myself to this list of questions...
>
> Olaf, I just wondered if you had any hope of getting the Enttec OpenDMX widget working on OS X...
>
> I'd e-mailed you a while ago and it sounded like you were still working on it, but I haven't heard since.

> I really appreciate your hard work (I'm using the widget under XP successfully now)...but I'd really love (and be willing to pay you like $60 if it worked in the next few weeks) for the ability to use it under OSX. I know I can buy the Pro version and your external for that, but it's a lot of $$ when the cheaper one almost does what I want.  

I stopped worrying about getting the Open going under OS X becasue I saw 
how it was eating my CPU power. I have a home-made version of it that 
should be the same as the one from Enttec and mine is working under OS 
X, the Enttec is not (although I used their published schematic to build 
mine). Due to all the trouble with the Open and people asking whether 
they could use it to receive DMX (which won't work) I dropped my 
interface into the trashcan and stopped working on the Open's software.
I think it's really a bad idea to rely on the OS to pump out DMX data at 
250kbps as a continous data stream where timing between bytes is used by 
the receiver to identify channel numbers.

If anyone was wondering I eventually got the external to work. My computer wasnt recognising the interface as a VCP port. Thanks Olaf for creating this!

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