Canton Chills

After being able to prove that my Java DMX tester code worked on the old hardware, it's now time to test it out with my new MacBook, which is where I do all my work. It's useful to be able to control DMX devices in order to test out sequences as I'm building them. MacOS is more Unix-like, and thus, connected serial devices don't appear on a Comm Port list. Instead, they appear as file handles under the "/dev/tty.*" folder structure. I'll need to identify which on the DMX dongle is and put that in the Java DMX Text project code. Test 1: Identify the USB Serial Device that is the DMX Dongle This should be a matter of plugging in the DMX dongle USB cable and approving the popup dialog to allow it. And it was, except that it took about 90 seconds for the dialog to appear and during that time I worried that it wouldn't work. But it showed up in the list: Test 2: Connect to the Dongle Here, I'll update the Java DMX Test project to connect to the named se...

I'm at the point where I want to verify I can get my old DMX adapter working again. I know it worked a few years ago with xLights, but I need to do a few things differently this year. First off, rather than use xLights this year, I've already written a new DMX controller application. Because of this, I need to revive some old software I used to send DMX data to the adapter. The DIY adapter I use is called a Lynx Dongle and it's compatible with the EnttecProDMX protocol. The second thing is I'll be using several different laptop platforms and a RPi4 to run the show. So, there's a need to verify a lot of things. I'll write the show runner application to execute on RPi4 and utilize web-based remote control features. Test 1: The first test is to plug the Lynx Dongle into my old laptop and make verify which serial comm port it appears as. Looks like COM3: Test 2: Update the DMX test code and see if it connects. It actually connected and ran for 10 seconds, as program...