Velleman K8062/VM116

[glenl]

Hi
I am very interested in the upgrade for the K8062
Please send more information (and a upgraded chip would be nice )
Thanks
Glen

[JTR]

Ok all,

Just a quick update. The project has taken a back seat as the chip I ordered ages ago were only shipped to me last week. They still have not arrived. Meanwhile I have been seconded by dangerousprototypes to work on integrating the USB stack I ended up co-authoring into there IR TOY.

Sorry for my lack of communication. I tend to drop everything and work on one thing at a time. Needless to say that this project will get my full attention again shortly. There is some information on the opendmx wiki here:

http://opendmx.net/index.php/Velleman_K8062_Upgrade

Thanks to those who have emailed/PM'ed me I will get back to you all shortly.

-Jim

[remco_k]

The good news is that the firmware has shown itself to work faultlessly at 512 non zero channels @ 40 updates per second. From a Velleman (mock-up!). Who would of thought.

Been a long time since I was here at the forum.
But...
If you'd read (lots) of my previous posts, you may have noticed I've also put a lot efford in the K8062 to get it to work faster. At the end, I completely rewrote the driver with no success, dumped the K8062 and bought me an Enttec Pro.

Now, years later, I browse this forum, bumped into this thread. Here's someone who also digged really deep into it. JTR is his name. And it seems he has a solution for this terrible problem.
He should be rewarded!

Good work! Hope you get it completely sorted. Not for me (as I don't have the K8062 anymore) but for all those other users.

[SoulAssassino]

Hi everyone!

I know I don't strictly belong here with this question, but you fellas seem to be quite experts in this device, so if it's not a problem i'll ask here.

Warning, totally noob questions and problem coming up!

At first i'd like to say that i'm new to DMX512 in general. I bought and assembled a vm116/k8062, it is built with the newer chip.(I would like to mention, that Maplin's website had no indication whatsoever that this is a self-assembly kit so you could imagine my surprise) Currently i'm at the stage of trying to test if it works, but i seem to be stuck. Either i did something wrong and no signal is getting out, or the wrong commands are going out. Right now i have a zero88 AlphaPack with a par64 hooked to channel one connected to the interface. Stand alone test mode has no effect, neither does the test software.

The computer recognises the device, the "power" LED is continuously on, while the "DMX" LED is flashing.

How should i test it/what should i do to indetify what i'm doing wrong? I also have a bunch of Pulse LEDPar56s, and some LEDj pixel bars available if you think that's easier to test, i assumed that the "dumbest" would be best.

Thank you in advance for your help!