[Noisebridge-discuss] arduino dmx receiver

[robb]

whaat!

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Phillip Pearson <pp at myelin.nz> wrote:

> Thanks!  The boards are my own design -- an ISO3088 chip plus isolated
> DC-DC converter
>

that's an
Isolated 5-V Half-Duplex RS-485 Transceiver !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> , and Neutrik connectors.
>

> I can confirm that the DMX code out there for Arduino and friends is a bit
> flaky :)  As Mitch says, though, DMX code written for the Duemilanove
> should work fine on an Uno, because it uses either GPIO or HardwareSerial;
> the FTDI chip isn't required.
>

i can't seem to find "ISR(USARTn_RX_vect)" in HardwareSerial.cpp which is
where i seem to need to start commenting out to allow the proper interupts

>
> I haven't tried receiving DMX on an Arduino, but I've implemented DMX
> reception on a Freescale KE04 ARM chip, and it's not super hard.
>

maybe it's time to set down the avr chips & just use my rpi


> The only tricky part is that the DMX packet starts with a 'break', where
> the data line is held low for ~50 us (12.5 bit times).  This will show up
> as a framing error, and is probably what you need to edit
> hardwareserial.cpp for.
>

agreed


>   I won't have time for a few days, but when I get these boards up and
> running I'll see about hooking one to an Arduino and testing out some
> receive code there.
>

 enjoy & that's music to my ears!

I've been using a Teensy and a USB-DMX adapter (Chinese uDMX clone) on the
> sending side so far.
>
> what are your inputs? pots, hardcoded modes, mic, multi-band eq,
software...?

Cheers,
> Phil
>
> cheers
~r


> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:56 PM, robb <sf99er at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thx for the responses
>>
>> @PhilIP nice boards! (your pic rendered) are those mathertels?
>> my usb>rs-485(dmx) adapter/converter has 3 connectors (grd, D+ & D-)
>> which connect to a neutrik xlr panel connector (see attached).
>> ​
>> @Mitch although there are lots of posts/pages describing how to code dmx
>> on arduinos, most of the work has been done related to transmitting dmx
>> (mostly on pre-uno versions, which are very hard to find) and not receiving
>> it. the few libraries for receiving dmx are quite old & don't seem to be
>> very straight forward, i.e. require editing hardwareserial.cpp at a keyword
>> that does not actually exist in the file (ArDMX).
>> thanks for the invite to hhn. food not bombs just brought me a
>> wheelchair, so i might be able to take you up on it soon.
>>
>> cheers
>> ~r
>>
>> lulzlux - ASK (Activist Support Krewe)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:32 AM, Phillip Pearson <pp at myelin.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> I sent the following response but it may have gotten rejected by the
>>> list software because of the embedded image:
>>>
>>> I've been working on DMX stuff for a little bit... have been soldering
>>> up DMX interface boards at NB tonight, in fact!
>>>
>>> [picture of DMX boards removed]
>>>
>>> Is your FTDI to RS485 adapter designed for DMX output -- i.e. on one end
>>> it has a female XLR connector that would plug into one of the boards above?
>>>
>>> Can you email me a photo of your setup so I can get a better idea of how
>>> the RS485 modules are wired up?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Phil
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Robb,
>>>>
>>>> If you don't get an answer here, try searching for "Arduino DMX" you'll
>>>> find plenty that people have worked out.  Also, please come to Circuit
>>>> Hacking Monday, every Monday at 7:30pm, where people help each other with
>>>> everything hardware.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Mitch.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> From: sf99er at gmail.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 21:35:49 -0700
>>>> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>>> Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] arduino dmx receiver
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hey gang,
>>>> anyone know how to code an arduino to receive dmx and output pwm to
>>>> leds? i think i've tried everything on the arduino site's dmx page but
>>>> nothing seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> my setup is qlcplus > ftdi to rs-485 adapter > ttl to rs-485 module >
>>>> arduino
>>>>
>>>> i will come sweep, mop & dust noisebridge, when my broken foot heals,
>>>> if someone can point me in the right direction.
>>>>
>>>> thx for being there
>>>>  ~r
>>>>
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