Shutter Effect with 3 Channel Fixture

[abluem97]

Hey Guys. I understand that this question is pretty amateurish. That's because i'm a total amateur.

I have a 3 channel DMX 512 Decoder with a simple LED strip hooked into it. I have the channels set up simply as:
1 - Red
2 - Blue
3 - Green

I've come to grips with the fact that the decoder does not allow for a true strobe effect (which is ridiculous because the $12 wifi controller that came with the strip does strobe.) I did set up a sequence to change colors really quickly though and it does create a pretty close strobe effect.

However, what's really baffling me is that I cannot get the shutter to work or the lights to turn off at all! I realize that the shutter should be set up on a separate channel, but the decoder is only 3- channel. I feel like there has to be a way to do it regardless (or at least simulate the effect.)

Turning the lights off should be a pretty simple function right? Am I missing something simple? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time!

[Jan_K]

Hej

I just had a look and you are right. It looks like Freestyler don't use the shutter panel when only the RGB channels are used.

/Jan

[abluem97]

Hej

I just had a look and you are right. It looks like Freestyler don't use the shutter panel when only the RGB channels are used.

/Jan

Thanks for responding Jan. Do you know of any work around for this? I find it hard to believe that there is no way to turn the lights off/on through freestyler. If not with the shutter panel then using some other method??

On/off seems like it should be a pretty straight forward function regardless of how many channels there are...

[buttza]

I remember asking for this a while back as a feature request. RGB Virtual Channel/Shutter so that you can fade segments on LED bars that are RGB segmented etc.

[Jan_K]

Well it is still marked "under consideration" and it has been that for a while so I don't think that he is going to make it unless it gets a lot of focus from our site.


http://www.freestylersupport.com/bugs/view.php?id=259

[buttza]

Well I hope it comes through. Would be useful.